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T " HE commercial market, for both new and used vehicles, is growing slowly but steadily. There is not likely to be any sudden...
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From our Industrial Correspondent LEADEL EADERS of the National Union of RS have refused to lift their ban on private road...
C UTS of more than 20 per cent in the rate for hauling coal from Staffordshire pits to North Wales have been notified to a...
By A. J. P. Wilding, A.M.I.Mech.E. A LMOST two years after prom:nent members of the refrigerated and insulated vehicle...
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I — NELAY in obtaining the chassis 1--/ wanted for their first tanker vehicle has meant that North Western Milk Carriers Ltd....
PTHE Minister of Transport is asking I Parliament to perpetuate the exemption from record-keeping for C-licensed vehicles up to...
Plastics, the Portolite flexible-tank systems produced by Marston Excelsior Ltd., and Portolite FMC flexible containers in...
or organizations to implement the Buchanan Report is called for in representations made to the Ministry of Transport by the...
A PLEA for more time to enable the 1-1, fish industry to reorganize its distribution system has been made to Dr. Beeching,...
of Transport to extend regular vehicle testing, at not more than two-yearly intervals, to all transport particularly heavy...
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Lines " acquisition " of the North recent announcement concerning .1 the Haulage group by London and Northern Securities Ltd....
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A N investigation is now being made into additional road routes for very heavy loads. Announcing this in the Lords this week,...
A N inquiry team is now starting a transport examination of Montgomeryshire and its work will be of value to the whole of...
THE Opposition is stepping up the pressure to get the fares concession Bill through Parliament this session—but a barrage of...
soon. Mr. Marples is expected to produce regulations around September giving effect to 'the Worboys Committee recommendations...
IN the 12 months ended March 31 this year, 38 per cent of the heavy goods vehicles examined on the road or in their garages had...
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Sheffield Surplus: The net surplus of Sheffield Corporation transport department in 1963-64 was £6,144 (£12,012 in the previous...
F.K. MOSES COMMENTS ON THE LATEST NEWS 'MOW that a comprehensive agreement for improved pay and conditions has finally been...
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FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT WITHIN 48 hours of agreement being VV reached on the new pay and conditions deal for London...
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WHAT is believed to be a new approach VY to vehicle renewal, so far as municipal passenger undertakings are concerned, has been...
London Transport, has been promoted to rolling stock engineer. He is succeeded in his previous post by Mr. H. W. Cromack,...
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B AKERS Transport (Southampton) Lid. partly succeeded on Monday in a bid to license six 111-ton articulated/ independent...
1-1 A NEW A licence for six vehicles was . granted at Manchester last Friday to Detergent Deliveries Ltd. of Cheadle,...
1 -1 . A SLIGHT variation between tenders for contract services might justify a licensing authority in using his discretion in...
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IN a written decision, Mr. S. W. Nelson, I the Western deputy Li ce fl si n g Authority, has refused the application of Main...
r 0 more steel applications were heard in Glasgow on Tuesday when John Stamper and Co. (Haulage) Ltd. asked for six artics of...
A T Llandudno on Wednesday, the North Western Traffic Commissioners reserved their decisions on applications for extended coach...
A FAMILY quarrel was the cause of an appeal against the grant of two additional B-licensed vehicles made by the North ,...
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A SUBSTANTIAL tanker application I -1 has been notified in this week's South Wales "As and Ds Robert Wynn and Sons Ltd., of...
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BY NORMAN H. TILSLEY L.A. Invites Northern Operators to Object to N.W. Applications 'T'HE June 10 issue of the Northern area...
THE South Wales Licensing Authority, Mr. Ronald Jackson, has made a comment, during a recent public inquiry, that I wonder is...
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now been officially approved by the engineering division of the British Motor Corporation for Austin and Morris FF...
A NEW Dumptruk with a capacity of 15 cu yd. has been added to its existing range by A.E.C. Ltd. Known as the A.E.C. 1 100...
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IN recent months the importers of the I Austrian Steyr-Puch Hollinger 4 x 4— Ryders Autoserv ice (G.B.) Ltd., Knowsley Road,...
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THE commercial bodybuilding and vehicle sales, service and engineering company of G, E, Neville and Son Ltd., of Mansfield and...
in May, 1963, in Brighton, the Fork Truck Driver of the Year Competition was staged this year at Bingley Hall. Birmingham. last...
C LEAR and conspicuous marking of vehicles carrying dangerous loads, with a nationally recognized code, was called for at the...
on in N. America DEMONS GROUP expansion plans I in North America have been announced in Detroit by Mr. Monty Prichard, the...
IN October, Temple Press Limited, pub' fishers of The Commercial Motor ", are to introduce a monthly journal covering all forms...
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MORE A.E.C.s FOR SOUTH AFRICA: A.E.C. Ltd. has received orders from South Africa for 189 goods and passenger chassis, bringing...
Inflation Problem Twin Wheels IN a large fleet where tyre inflation is 1 a driver's duty the tyre most likely to receive a...
THIS week's prize-winner is Mr. H. B. I Humphreys, of Burnley, Lancs. He has made a tool for lifting the C-type brake shoe...
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and Publications Iodine-quartz Auxiliaries A S U.K. concessionnaires for Fausto Carello of Turin, Lyall Lusted Ltd. is to...
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BIRD'S • EYE VIEW A note of real topicality was struck on Wednesday of last week by the appearance of one of the new Roden...
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Normal-control Chassis A NEW range of Austin and Morris normal-control models which replace the WE series has been announced...
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O NCE again the Royal Show, which opens on July 7 at the new permanent showground near Stoneleigh Abbey in Warwickshire, will...
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Best at Oxford DRITISH ROAD SERVICES' perennM ially strong support of the Oxford eliminator • in the Lorry Driver of the Year...
A FTER several days of hot sunshine, the weather reverted to our more normal brand with clouds and a few scattered showers on...
Class A, up to 16 ft. and from 201 cwt.: I, W. E. Tinier (G.P.O., Oxford), Morris, 300; 2, C. R. Woodley (Morris Motors Ltd.),...
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Overall winner: M. Blandford (Express Dairy Co. (London) Ltd.). 79 penalty points. Team award: Wm. ivloorhoose and Sons Ltd....
I APPROACHED the Southend heat of the L.D.O.Y. competition with the usual enthusiasm this 'year. For this, in my...
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BY S. BUCKLEY, Ass oc.I NST.T. Maintaining a 24-hour delivery service to 3,500 members at economic cost is the transport...
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NORMAN H. TILSLEY discusses some of the snags that face operators in the Welsh hills, where inadequate rates are overshadowed...
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No major effect on road haulage likely but other problems face livestock carriers' IN confidential talks two years ago,...
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from British west coast ports to farms and then, later, from farms to east coast ports. Meanwhile, meat marketing trends are...
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Re-arranged payments plan could hit country hauliers hard FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT T HE Ministry of Agriculture,...
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L ET us suppose that Dr. Beeching had become convinced some time ago that, in spite of closures and liner trams, the railways...
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costs' BY R. H. PHILLIPSON Secretary, British Road Federation T HE problem of track costs— now re-titled "system , costs "—has...
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pONCRETE mixer/agitators for vehicle mounting are to be made by Thompson Bros. of Bilston, Staffs, a concern which until now...
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ADVICE ON TRANSPORT PROBLEMS by S. BUCKLEY, ASSOC. INST. T. I N terms of news value it is perhaps unfortunate but inevitable...
an inquiry from a young reader. Being 18 years old, he complains that he is permitted to drive only vehicles with an unladen...
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More Progresi ade in 1963 M /TORE evidence has come to hand that 1963 was a 1V1 year of progress not only for commercial...
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Forced Out by Rate-cutting wE welcome your suggestion (The Commercial Motor, " June 19), to give publicity to instances of...