Although the Ministry of Transport is at pains to emphasize that the report on the allocation of freight traffic by 125...

Report gives five-point plan for better freight allocation • The importance of transport is underrated in many manufacturing...

by Derek Moses • A scathing attack on the Ministry of Transport standard bus grant specifications, which could lead...

The postponed Bedford Eliminating round of the Lorry Driver of the Year competition will now take place on Sunday June 7. The...

• Cummins Engine Co. Ltd, has revealed that its parent Cummins company, of Columbus, Indiana, USA has reached an agreement with...

New lorry regs forecast in Government's 'fight against pollution' • "The Minister of Transport is now discussing with the...

• From June 15 vehicles drawing trailers fitted with power brakes need no longer carry a second man. This concession follows...

• The public tended to see refuse collection services as representative of the efficiency, or otherwise, with which councils...

• Claimed to be Britain's first liquefied petroleum gas station, a conversion, fitting and LPG supply centre was opened on...

• Directional control of articulated vehicles, braking and traction, tyre properties, inspection and maintenance, conventional...

• National Carriers' Top Driver of the Year award travelled from the far north to the deep south on Sunday, when in NC L's...

• Plans for recruiting trained drivers into the road haulage industry from all three HM forces may be put into effect if a...

• The elimination of serious congestion on all inter-urban trunk roads by the end of the 1980s---this is the aim of Government...

• Last weekend's LDoY results were:NEWARK Rigid vehicles Class A: up to 20ft and over 1 ton unladen: 1. A. L Bingham (Vic...

• There are still a few places vacant for the Freight Transport Marketing seminar being run by CM in London on June 11. At this...

• Crane Fruehauf Trailers Ltd has agreed with Hawker Siddeley to purchase the Hands range of automatic-coupling semi-trailers...

• The Press Tool and Metal Stamping Co Ltd, of Duke Street, Birkenhead, has issued a statement in connection with its pressed...

transport by David and freight handling Lowe Container services exhibition • To see Olympia barely filled by fewer than 60...

• Bullens Transport Group has been appointed the UK agent of Allied Van Lines, one of the largest US van lines with 1100...

• Members of the Passenger Vehicle Operators Association have been advised that an understanding Hs been reached with the...

• The training of bus conductors and driver /operators in the handling of decimal currency should be delayed until early 1971...

• All the mainland bus and coach services in west Scotland, operated by David MacBrayne. part of the Scottish Transport Group,...

• On the morning of the State opening of Parliament on July 2, restrictions will be applied to the waiting of coaches in the...

alarms union Revival of UK Flxible? • Agitation is being expressed by union leaders at the prospect of widespread changes...

• Tomorrow, June 6, will be the last day on which a 2d ticket for a full adult fare can be bought on a British bus. The 2d...

• Commenting on the possibility that Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd may seek permission to start their own bus services to...

• A cross-appeal to an appeal by three Scottish hauliers and BRS Ltd against a grant to Islay Transport Services of one artic...

• James Moffat Junior (Contractors) Ltd, of Edinburgh, received an 0 licence at Edinburgh on Tuesday for its existing three...

• David Bush, of Hewitt Avenue, London N22, charged with making false statements between May 1968 and August 1969 for the...

• A charge of assaulting a Metropolitan traffic examiner acting in the course of his duty was adjourned at Godstone...

• The Watford coach operators who carried mentally retarded children in a coach with a missing window and other children in a...

• The first RHA objection to an operator's licence application, listed to be heard at Southampton next Wednesday. has been put...

• The appeal by Charles Poulter Ltd against the refusal of the Metropolitan LA to grant it an operator's licence, heard on May...

• A new tanker designed for the collection of waste corrosive products has been introduced by Hanger Engineering Ltd, of...

• The York W Series of platform semi-trailers has been superseded by a new range of medium-weight models—the M Series. There...

• Detailed modifications and the use of BS 4360 high-tensile steel combined with new welding techniques have enabled the weight...

• The first fully automated chassis cleaning station in Britain, and probably in the world, came into commercial use recently,...

• Northumberland County Council has recently placed a repeat order for a further six Commer VCAW 8-ton chassis, fitted with...

• Last August Whaleywash Equipment Ltd, Station Road, West Meon, Hants, produced this cou9try's first 'mobile glassfibre...

Recording some of the road transport events which have occurred since CM was last published, on May 8 New chairman for the R...

George Bartup • Ex-RAF navigator George Bartup, managing director of Trevor Williams (Removers) Ltd, Hereford, takes over as...

From Sir Reginald Wilson Some time ago you published a letter which quoted me as saying in public that "the National Freight...

I read with interest the article "The best braking for attics" in the May 8 edition of Commercial Motor, featuring Professor F....

In your "Ci and A" feature in the May 8 issue you replied to a question regarding the origination of the spring brake system,...

by Handyman Benchwise: lathe sense (16) IN my last article on taper turning I ended with a reclaimed shaft set up between...

by Tony Wilding, MIMechE, MIRTE WHEN the Bedford R-type 4 x 4 was tested by CM in 1962 various bits came adrift—such as the...

ACCORDING to his latest information, the main types of bus operating in Britain were made up of four groups, Mr R. Bailey,...

view by the Hawk IN Haulage link Ted Smith, Herbie Taylor, John Weedon, Jim Page, Ted Page, Leslie Carter, Colin Carter, Alec...

Several important new appliances make their appearance at the Institute of Public Cleansing Conference demonstration at The...

R. S. STOKVIS AND SONS LTD. Lyon Road, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey. In addition to the new Tennant 92 power sweeper, the Model 42...

and in politics, both at national and local level, the politicians and the paid officials are equally concerned with this...

SELDOM urni ONES by Ron Cater, AMInstBE This picture was taken as the first load with which the air cushion equipment was used...

SNOW CLEARING, SWISS STYLE HOW APPROPRIATE FOR BRITISH ROADS? by David Spain SNOW, in one way or another, affects all of us....

No change likely in use of dual-purpose types to provide basic service by Ashley Taylor AMIRTE Assoc Inst T MUN CI AL AND...

by John Vann, FCII Is an Act of God insured? • There's a load of wrong thinking about "Act of God", particularly as applied...

Transport problems in the Market by janus A. T this present moment of time it seems extraordinary that during the...

matters by John Darker, AMBIM Science in transport (6) Computers in vehicle scheduling IT IS I think, axiomatic that a...

by Les Oldridge AIRTE, AMIMI Abnormal loads (2) with from 10,001 to 25,000 delivery points. Another question revealed that...

recovery vehicle? Although we have been issued with trade plates, being haulage contractors with our own maintenance section,...

load-sensing device, the A x-Way. As the author of the article says in his first paragraph, numerous attempts have been made to...

motor vehicle running while the vehicle is stationary on the highway and unattended, and what is the position with regard to...

at present working to a fixed rate, I have had no experience of pricing individual loads and would be grateful for your...

ary 16) regarding vehicle distributors who carry vehicles one on top of another. As an answer, you stated: "A trailer, on the...

tyres for a Ford Transit 30 22cwt van. Could you explain why this is? Also, is it in fact advantageous to fit radials on this...

WHEN the Open University (formerly to have been called University of the Air) took great interest in the idea of my plea for a...

Constar System Ltd. Cap.: MO. Object: to operate and manage the system of consigning freight by air known as the Constar System...

All the books, booklets and reprints published in association with CM are obtainable from the Sales Dept. in Business Press...

twenties . . • 1920 The Company commenced business in a small single storey building. The total area covered only 160 sq.ft....

specially designed building. Knowledge and experience was already tending to create branches based on ideas which 20 years...

post-war development Hollingsworth's Auto Electrical Services Hollingsworths, Lucas Distributors for the Northampton area, now...

1960 In 1920 Marsham had 160 sq.ft. of covered space. By 1938, 27 branches and 200,000 sq.ft. and in the early part of 1960...

Terriers House The centralisation of accounting {which necessitated the introduction of machine book-keeping) was in operation...