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5th September 1969
5th September 1969
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Bowyers specify Petter refrigeration

Every weekday before noon, pigs are slaughtered in Trowbridge. By 7 a.m. the next morning they are on sale in retail shops as...

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It won't lie down

If it were not such a deplorable waste of intelligent and busy men's time the discussion about the future of the Road Haulage...

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Pay our rates or else!

say tipper men MENDIPS GROUP REJECTS QUARRYMASTERS' SCALE by David Lowe • The Mendips Tipper Operators Group has decided to...

FTA opposes RHA on Wages Council objections

• The Freight Transport Association has told the commission of inquiry into the future structure of the Road Haulage Wages...

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MAN springs gas turbine surprise

375 HP TWIN-ROTOR UNIT DEMONSTRATED ON NEW PROVING GROUND • Last Friday MAN, of Munich, used the occasion of the opening of a...

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Report ordered on Highland freight charges

• A report which is likely to shape the pattern of freight charges in the Highlands and islands is to be prepared by Associated...

Manpower in the haulage industry

• By 1973 it is estimated that the total number of people employed in road haulage will have risen to 240,000. This compares...

An extra large Luton

• Designed to take optimum advantage from the exclusion of 30cwt light vans from carriers' licensing is a new Luton model from...

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No depot for Oxon haulier

• Whitehall has dashed a Hook Norton, Oxon, haulage contractors hopes of moving his controversial business .to nearby Bloxham....

PLAss new exporters' guide

• The Port of London Authority has produced a new comprehensive „guide 'to export procedure in London's enclosed dock systems...

Calorgas driver s • bravery

• Southampton tanker driver Gordon Harding, 36, who risked his life to drive his blazing vehicle away from army sleeping...

Big day for Big J

GUY MOTORS CELEBRATES PRODUCTION OF 5,000th MODEL • It was Big J Day in Wolverhampton on Wednesday. At the Fallings Park works...

Highway acquires D. H. Morgan

• D. H. Morgan (Engineers) Ltd– of Bordon, Hampshire, designer and manufacturer of the Hydrci-Couple low-loading semi-trailers....

Keyways in business

• The new Hull forwarding company. Humber Keyways Ltd., which has been formed to take over the forwarding activities previously...

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ICI salts away a Transit 500ft underground

• The 22ewt Ford Transit that ICI Mond division has put into operation at its Meadow Bank Salt Mine at Winsford in Cheshire had...

Port charges up

• The Mersey Docks and Harbour Board has announced increased charges for cargo handling in the Port of Liverpool from October 1...

Emphasis on electrics

• The Electric Vehicle Association of Great Britain has launched a new publicity campaign to encourage the use of electric...

Transport and traffic analysed

• A new analysis of cars and private vans by body types as well as by engine size is contained in Highway Statistics 1968...

Amesbury by-pass opens • A major bottleneck OR the Wiltshire

section of A303 has been removed by today's opening of the new three-mile Amesbury by-pass. The by-pass has been built at a...

New signals for school crossings

• A twin amber flashing light unit is to be added to school crossing patrol signs where there is no clear view of the patrol...

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Hines

• Last week saw what appears to be the final

episode in the six-week old strike/closure dispute between D. E. Hines (Transport), of Streetly, and the TGWU over the...

Special

The September 12 issue of CM will be a big special number on the theme of articulation, designed to bring readers right up to...

M4 Sunday closures

• Parts of M4 Motorway between Chiswick and Maidenhead Thicket Interchange are to be closed to traffic on three Sundays in...

Ernest Armstrong, of Prestbury, has been appointed as a member

of the SELNEC PTE. He will hold the position of member responsible for establishment and public relations. Further additions to...

Walter Alexander in merger talks

• Discussions with a view to a merger have taken place between Walter Alexander (Commercial Vehicles) Ltd and the Edinburgh car...

40,000cvs in June

• British manufacturers made 40,582 commercial vehicles in June-246,770 in the six months ended June 28, states the Society of...

Transport depot in Fife

• Fife County Council is to go ahead with plans to set up a new transport depot at the former Territorial Army depot in...

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Scottish Freightliners grant considered

• The Scottish LA, Mr. A. B. Birnie, heard an application by Freightliners Ltd., at Glasgow on Tuesday, to vary its...

extent because of industrial action in another section. Sub-contracted transport

had proved costly, less efficient and less suited for container work than its own vehicles and had resulted in a loss of £3,413...

Special vehicles granted

• A roll-on /roll-off unit, a Durnpmaster and a tanker were added to a B licence belonging to Purle Waste Disposal (West...

'Question of Jurisdiction' LA

• Although an operator had been convicted for offences relating to forgery of drivers' records and unauthorized use of a...

SELNEC PTE transfer

• The Minister of Transport has now made the SELNEC Passenger Transport Area (Transfer of Undertakings) Order 1969 This...

Gloucestershire haulier refused

• It was an offence to lend a licence disc or certificates, said Mr. J. C. Samuel-Gibbon, the Western LA, at a public inquiry...

Purle Waste wasted time

• The West Midland LA, Mr. J. Else, on Wednesday told Mr. 0, B. Henry, of Purle Waste Disposal Ltd., to make a more realistic...

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DT 1500 and DT 1700 facts and figures.

They all add up to the best value for money in the maximum GVW range: Super-luxury, super-tilt Custom cab for excellent engine...

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Pool applications for ski tours

• Following three applications, involving 10 passenger operators, all asking for an excursions licence to run week-end ski...

New Yorkshire aircraft service

• Mr. R. P. Cherry, of Beverley, was granted a new express service licence to take workers to the Hawker Siddeley factory at...

Higher fares sought by Scottish Bus Group

• Increased fares on its services throughout Scotland are being sought by the Scottish Bus 'Group in an application to the...

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Haulage applications

Yorkshire APPLICATIONS August 271969 S. and D. Knowles (Transpord Ltd.. Bradford, New A lie.. 5 veh. (20-1-0. Mainly fruit,...

Support for conditions not in application

• During the hearing of an application by Central Metals, of Leeds, at Leeds last week, the LA, Maj.-Gen. Sir John Potter told...

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Park and ride

succeeds • in Durban by C. A. Hyams • With traffic congestion in city centres becoming more acute, a number of corporations...

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Aberdeen thrives on training grant

• Aberdeen Corporation transport department, which anticipated a deficit of almost £38,000 on its operations during 1968-69,...

Now Bristol seeks fares rise

• The Bristol Group of Companies which will be faced with a considerably increased wages bill for crews from September 14 when...

Tyne Tees managers change

• Mr. George Stringer, Teesside Transport's deputy manager, is to take over the running of the buses at Newcastle in the...

NBC service switch in West Riding

• Hebble Motor Services Ltd.. Halifax, has taken over responsibility for the operation of certain local routes in the West...

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Demountable bulk tipper

• A 20-ton-gross bulk vehicle equipped with a demountable aluminium tipper body has been supplied by B. W. Winter and Sons,...

More protection for road accident victims

• The Motor Insurers' Bureau is a relatively little known organization. Most road users are unlikely to get directly involved...

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Go-anywhere Terra Tiger

• Combining the tough terrain crossing agility of its namesake with the talents of a mountain goat is the two-passenger,...

British trailers for Sweden

• British trailer-maker Merriworth (Engineering) Ltd„ Dartford, Kent, has started exporting its products to Sweden. Last week,...

MOTEC courses

• Among a series of management and supervisory training courses arranged by the Road Transport Industry Training Board at the...

Transport courses

• The Southend College of Technology has announced details of the road transport courses to be held at the College during the...

Time alone will tell in new Bedford service plan

• As from September 1, time alone governs recommended service intervals for Bedford light vans, replacing the "whichever comes...

Crane and Hoist Exhibition

• The George Cohen 600 Group Ltd., Wood Lane, London. W12, is to hold a Crane and Hoist exhibition daily from Wednesday October...

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Road and workshop

by Handyman Loads and forces (16) • When light, laminated panels are dislodged from a platform when at speed on a motorway,...

Plastics as metal replacements

• While chapters on "Material Selection" and "Plastics in the Motor Industry" are the only sections of Plastics as Metal...

Safety cushion inflation system

• Known as the Safe-T-Flate, a new safety air bag inflation system has been produced in prototype form by the Olin Corporation,...

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* Fire away

Lancashire County Fire Brigade is answering its longest call this week, but if there's a fire at the end it will only be a...

* Lubpix

Glasgow Corporation employees have been using a lot of oil recently. When this happens in transport we are inclined to keep...

* Colour supplement

Like love and marriage, or the horse and carriage, by-pass openings and speeches just naturally go together. But last week's...

* Contagious?

Remember that piece last week about the official application forms from the Ministry of Transport being printed in Welsh? I...

* 81d ticket

Decimalization is here—on the Isle of Man. General manager Bill Lambden, of Isle of Man Road Services Ltd., tells me that about...

* All out

It's Birmingham versus London in the final of the National p.s.v. cricket competition. These two undertakings will meet at the...

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Something for everyone on

S ii fl clay by IAIN SHERRIFF MITA The Lorry Driver of the Year competition is more than just a pot-hunting exercise. It is...

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My money's on O'Mahoney!

Who will be this year's LDOY champion? One man who thinks he has the answer is CM's Art Editor JAMES MILLEN. Having...

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costing for maximum profit

A SPECIAL SERIES BY R. P. C. BLOCK 6. The Flow-line ingredients to produce total operating costs PREVIOUSLY in this series I...

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V10 Mercedes at Frankfurt

by P. A. C. Brockington, MIMechE A NEW V10 engine developing 320 bhp (DIN) powers new ranges of Mercedes-Benz trucks and...

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The ifs and buts of better braking

by P. A. C. BROCK1NGTON, MIMechE Lecturers and course students at Loughborough University of Technology dissect braking...

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container commentary

A monthly intelligence report on container topics this month from Rotterdam by NORMAN DOUGLAS Battle of the North Sea hots...

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lechhitopic4 9

by P. A. C. Brockington, mimechE Roll stiffness could spell danger A LEADING OIL company technician has stated publicly that...

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Janus comments

Robbing Peter to pay Paul Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why so can I, or so can any man; But...

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'Do it yourself' work study

1RITISH universities in recent years have lecome much less insular, showing 'a welome readiness to go out and meet the public....

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Q / am a teacher in a large secondary

school and part of my duty is to organize the transport for various activities. For some time we have toyed with the idea of...

a We own a large fleet of vehicles of all

types and a number have to be parked in the open. We want to find some form of heating which could be used for the purpose of...

Our company uses vehicles hired with out drivers, whom we

supply ourselves, and vehicles supplied complete with drivers by haulage contractors operating under Contract A licences. We...

, am rebuilding a 1931 Austin taxi and wonder whether you could assist me on one or two matters:—

1. Suggestions where I might obtain parts lists and/or instruction book: 2. Where and if it is possible to obtain a "meter" as...

Cl Recently we were pleased to note that

an amendment was being introduced to allow vehicles of a gross vehicle weight of 3_5 tons to be exempt from the MoT heavy...

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THE COMMON ROOM

by George Wilmot Senior Lecturer in Transport Studies, University of London. Greater effort needed in lecturer training THE...

!IRIDY1 7NIE RAY

BY LES OLDRIDGE, A.I.Ff.T.E„ A.114,1,44.1. Registration and licensing AS we all know, to our cost, excise duty must be paid...

NEW COMPANIES

M.G.B. Transport Ltd. Cap.: £100. Object: To catty on the business of general haulage contractors, in all its branches, etc....

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Cargo pumps

The company that claims to have pioneered the use of helical gears in gearor rotor-type pumps, now known as Varley-FMC Ltd.,...

Fridge unit

The "Drikold' VanCooler--an efficient, but cheap, thermostatically controlled refrigeration system for retail delivery vans...

Communications

The 28th system in the Aiphone range of communication systems is for industrial and commercial use, marketed as the NAP.20.M....

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Servo unit

Westinghouse CVB has produced a pamphlet that describes the company's air /hydraulic/mechanical servo unit that is particularly...

Body extensions

Body extension kits are available from Telehoist Ltd., Cheltenham, for increasing the capacity of the company's 14ft Tel-lite...

Spring washers

Following the publication of metric specifications for plain washers (BS 4320) and crinkle washers (BS 4463), the British...

Ring spanners

T. Williams (Drop Forgings and Tools) Ltd. has introduced a range of short bi-hexagon ringspanners in fully polished chromium...

Coupling frame

A special frame is produced by Slaven Transport Products to enable the company's STP Hitch fifth-wheel coupling to be mounted...

Tyre tread gauge A tyre tread-depth gauge produced by MB Metals gives readings of 0.5mm /20mm and is

Graduated in divisions of rnm, the MB tyre tread-depth gauge gives readings of 0.5mm to 20min. graduated in divisions of •-mm....

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Load lashings

Made from damp-resistant Terylene or nylon, Guardian Gardlok lashings are supplied in three widths, 19mm 25mm (1 in.) and 50mm...

Portable workshop

The Workmate, a portable, lightweight workbench from Mate Tools weighs 3211a and can be folded and hung away when not in use;...

Intercom system

A four-way fully inter-communicating system is produced by Ai phone Communication Systems for the smaller office. It is known...

Engine paint

A special heat-resistant engine paint is available from Porzelack on Eoz. aerosol cans. Colours include black, red, green,...

Tyre spreader

We have now received an amendment from the makers to the price of the Kentredder pneumatic tyre spreader. This is, in fact, £25...

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The next groups for testing:

1. All load-carrying motor vehicles of more than 30 cwt. unladen weight and all tractive units of articulated vehicles in the...

Compulsory goods vehicle testing.

It could affect you. The scheme for the compulsory testing and plating of goods vehicles under the Road Safety Act 1967 is now...

Your vehicle's next Excise Licence may depend on a Test Certificate.

From 1st October.1969 you have to send in a valid Goods Vehicle Test Certificate when you apply for an Excise Licence if your...

How to apply for a test.

Go to any Money Order Post Office and get Form VTG 1 for motor vehicles or Form VTG 2 for trailers. Both forms will tell you...

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Exhaust purifier

An exhaust gas purifier, introduced at the Clean Air Exhibition by the manufacturer, Engelhard Sales, is now in production. The...

Illuminated signs

A range of illuminated signs for use on road vehicles has been introduced by Van Lite. Two types are available, one being...

Tyre repair materials

A range of tyre repair materials being launched by Romac Industries Ltd. has been designed to give safe and permanent repairs...

Leaflet on loader

Edbro has produced an illustrated leaflet describing the recently introduced Easifit hydraulic taildoor loader designed for...

Vehicle washer

The price of the Wickham commercial vehicle washer designated Lightning (CM July 25 page 69l, was quoted as £5,500. This should...