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T COM MERCIAL le

MOTOR VOLUME 121 Nn, 3116 , May 7, 1965 V alue for Money IT is no idle boast to describe British commercial vehicles as world...

FORTHCOMING EVENTS

The next seven days, May 7-13. NO1111 of Scotland round Lorry Driver Competition. Al the Corporation Transport Depot, Elgin...

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RHA Attacks Minister's Inquiry

A STRONG attack on the Minister of Transport's inquiry into inland transport is made in the Road Haulage Association's annual...

Victory Transport Profits: Gross revenue of Victory Transport Ltd., Southampton,

for the half year ended December 31 last was up by 10 per cent, and net profits 12 per cent. The board hopes for a minimum 10...

RHA to Consider Request to Delay Rates Increase

IMEXT Wednesday the national council IN of the Road Haulage Association will consider the Government's reference to the...

COSTS QUESTIONNAIRE FOR HAULIERS

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT A QUESTIONNAIRE from the National Board for Prices and Incomes will go out this week-end to...

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TRTA Wants C-licence Vehicles and Men Within Transport Training Board

FROM \A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT r.L10ENSED transport should be included in a road transport training board; it would be quite...

LINER TRAINS TO START IN AUTUMN?

From Our Industrial Correspondent COLLOWING the go-ahead received from the Minister of Transport, the British Railways Board...

Two Consolidate on the Continent

Li ATTER rothers (Grays, Essex), I through their subsidiary, Hatter Shipping Services Ltd., have recently acquired a Dutch...

Darlington By-pass Open Next Week: Britain'S newest stretch of motorway—the 101-mile by-pass which will remove one of

the last remaining bottlenecks on Al he opened on May 14 by the Minister of Transport. Constructed at a total cost of some £61...

BRS RATES INCREASE

pRITIStl. ROAD SERVICES rates for general haulage are to be increased by 5 per cent from June I. This follows the recornm...

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Carter to make Anchorlok brakes

C ARTER ENGINEERING CO. ‘-.0 (TAM WORTH) LTD. is now licensed to manufacture American Anchorlok spring brake equipment in this...

UTA's Colours Changed

HE familiar green of Ulster Trans" port Authority freight vehicles is soon to disappear. Northern Ireland Carriers Ltd., who...

Five-day week for Trade -plate Drivers

T TRADE-PLATE drivers in the Midi lands—the men who deliver new commercial vehicles and cars to distributors, commercial...

TAKE-OVER IN THE MIDLANDS T HE National Carbonising Co. Ltd. has

acquired the firm of Phillip W. Smith (Nottingham) Ltd. and its subsidiary companies Phillip Smith (1947) Ltd. and Phillip...

Joint Maintenance Meeting

THE Traders Road Transport Association and the Road Haulage Association are jointly sponsoring a meeting to be held at the...

Perkins Engines for Canadian Jeeps : Jeep vehicles fitted with

British-built Perkins diesel engines are to be produced at the Kaiser Jeep of Canada plant at Windsor, Ontario. Two models will...

LUTON TRANSPORT COURSE STARTS

A ROUND 50 people have booked for the £1. transport management course at Luton College of Technology, whose opening day,...

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Ford Convoy Now Deep Into Russia

From 4. J_ P. Wilding, Pyatigorsk, Tuesday evening THE Ford 10,000-mile endurance run 1. with new fl-Series lorries is now well...

Pay Rise from June 9 O N Tuesday the Minister of

Labour signed the order giving his approval to the increase in haulage employees' pay proposed I” the Road Haulage Wages...

ITA Welcomes Students A T a meeting of the Forth

division of the industrial Transport Association in Edinburgh last week, the chaitma FI, Mr. ' A. Raeside, extended a welcome...

OWNER-DRIVER PREDOMINATES . IN BELGIUM

R FCENT statistics reveal that 59 per cent of Belgian haulage concerns own only one vehicle and 23 per cent two-three vehicles....

POINTS FROM PARLIAMENT IN the Commons this week, the Minister

1 of Transport said he hoped for an improvement in commercial vehicles' intaleuards. - 1 he Road Research Laboratory's report...

New Pattern of Public Transport P

D RAS - M' changes in public transport are likel■ to result from the land tise - transport studies now being undertaken in most...

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EDINBURGH TO EMPLOY ATLANTEANS

A FULL-SCALE trial of rear-engined L - 1double-deck buses is to be made by Edinburgh Corporation Transport, following the...

London Men Demand ' Substantial ' Rise

L EADERS of London's 15,000 busmen are to concentrate on getting higher pay for their members, writes our Industrial...

New Motorway Coaches in Service

S EVEN of the new CM.6 coaches being built by Midland Red for motorway operation are now in service. This was reported by Mr....

. . . Meanwhile Strikes Go On

A T the annual meeting of Midland Red reported above, Mr. Wills condemned the unofficial Saturday strikes being conducted at...

Luggage Trailer in Prototype Service

vXPERIENCE is being gained by BEA from the operation on actual passenger service of the Routemaster; luggage trailer...

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NEW SMALL DENNIS BUS -rins new 23/34-seat has, the Pax

PSV introduced by Dennis Bros.. succeeds t h e Falcon. It has a Perkins 5-litre engine of 89 15.11.p. and a Dennis UO 5-speed...

A More Encouraging Park and Ride

O N two recent Scottish public holidays 1April 5 and 19) Edinburgh City Police introduced a very severe ban on parking in the...

Mr. Williamson, who was general manager of the Midland General

Omnibus Co. Ltd. and its associate companies. Notts and Derby Traction Co. Ltd. and Mansfield and District Traction Co. Ltd.....

IN BRIEF Better ;Year for B.E.T.O.S.: Net profit of BET.

Omnibus Services Lid. for the year ' ended March 31 last amounted to £751,873 . compared with £682.750 in the previous year....

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SORAGG GETS FIVE OUT OF SEVEN A FTER hearing submissions on

two Avariation applications by a Cheadle haulier to add a total of seven artics to a fleet of 15 vehicles, the West Midland...

FOUR OUT OF TEN

A T Hexham (Northumberland) this week, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, the Northern Licensing Authority, granted Road Services...

Car Transporter Switch Granted

D ESPITE strong opposition from British Railways—the sole objector— an application by Distributor Deliveries Ltd., of Plymouth,...

'Serious Consequences' if Bakers' Bid Refused

T HE S.E. Licensing Authority, Maj.Gen. A. F. J. Elmslie, put some challenging questions to the principal customer witness at a...

Big application withdrawn

A N application by Peter McCallum and Sons Ltd., of Airdrie, for an A variation to add 12 articulated units of 131 tons, was...

Liner Train Containers in Production

A S this picture shows, production of liner train (or " express freightliner ") containers is going ahead at full speed in BR's...

Meat Deleted from Grant by Tribunal : An appeal by

J. Wharton and Sons Ltd. and others against a 30-vehicle B-licence grant to Merchants Mutual Association (Fleetwood) by the...

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Advice Ignored Then Appeal is Dismissed

At"`" . !GH the Transport Tribunal president advised an appellant to withdraw his appeal or request an )djournment so that he...

Four, Not - Btu. Granted: In the April 16 issue of

The Cminiterciai Motor, we stated that a giant 01 550 vehicles had been made by the North Western deputy Licensing • Authorit...

Mr. Else Warns -T HIS is a very serious matter as

the applicant may lose one or two vehicles, and I am quite prepared to grant an adjournment," said Mr. Else, the W...st Midland...

Refusal for George Ewer ..

I N a reserved written decision, the Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner, Mr. D. I. R. Muir. has refused the application by...

... and Eastern National THREE applications by Eastern I National

Omnibus Co. Ltd. for variations on two express services between Southend and Victoria Coach Station. and one express service...

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HAULAGE APPLICATIONS

Requests in Six Areas NORTHERN APPLICATIONS (April 28, 1965) Haley Bros. (Cimpweil) Ltd., Chopwell, A var., add I art. (100....

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STANDARDIZED LOWLOADERS

A PROGRAMME of standardization of its low-loading trailers and semi-trailers has been started by Crane Fruehauf Trailers Lid....

JAP COMPETITION IN AFRICA STIFFENS

THE South African Railways and Harbours Administration has ordered 10 luxury buses from Datsun Motor Vehicle Distributors, and...

JAGUAR-CUMMINS AGREEMENT

T HE. vec-engine production agreemeat bemeen Jaguar Cars Ltd., Covemi and ( 'unimins Engine Co. Inc., of Columbus. Indiana,...

Engines from D Range to be Marketed

THE fourand six-cylinder diesel engines developed from existing units by the Ford Motor Co. Ltd. for the new D range are to be...

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ERF Brakes to Exceed C. and U. Minima

T °provide standards of braking exceeding the requirements of the latest C. and U. regulations, ERF Ltd. twill use actual...

CONFERENCE ON NOISE H IGHWAY noises, legal aspects of reduction, the

use of rubber in sound and vibration reduction, and aspects of traffic noise will be among the subjects dealt with in papers to...

BEDFORD EXPORTS DECENT world-wide export orders for I% Bedford chassis

include more than 200 of the four-wheel-drive R-type. Of these, 56 have been ordered by the Public Works Department of Kuching,...

Production and Exports A LTHOUGH British production of goods vehicles

and p.s.v. in March this ,year showed a marked increase over February's figures and those for March, 1964, both production and...

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Dual-purpose Trailers as 'Desert Trains'

TYPICAL of the trailer equipment manufactured by R. A. Dyson and o. Ltd. for export mainly to the oilfields 3f the world, this...

ROAD AND WORKSHOP by HANDYMAN

"Things about Rings" A T some time during the middle-life n. of an oil engine action has to be aken that at times eventually...

—MONEY FOR YOU ?— Haw You an idea that is

worth passing on to tither readers? It must relate to maintenance practice. If a panel, on which Handyman sits, considers your...

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NEW EQUIPMENT

and Publications Close-coupled Four-wheel Trailer ,N NEW trailer, the FB-1-RS, with a capacity of one ton, is to r - k. be...

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BIRD'S EYE VIEW

By The Hawk Standing Ovation To the obvious delight of the popular TRTA president, Mr. K. C. Turner, his principal guest at...

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TRADERS ROAD TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE, SCARBOROUGH

Vital Role of AnciIlar ransport Examined T HE second national conference of the Traders Road Transport Association, held last...

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Mr. Turner is President for the Fifth Year

A T the first meeting of the new national council, on Saturday, Mr. K. C. Turner was re-elected president of the TRTA for the...

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Modernizing a Traditional Trade

Removers 'discuss current topics at Leamington By S. BUCKLEY, AssocInstT INDUSTRIAL training was a major topic at the Annual I...

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NAFWR Officers 1965-6

At the AGM of the NAFWR held last week, the following officers were elected :—president. Mr. A. II. M. Walker: senior...

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The Best of Two Worlds in Copenhagen

FOR BEDFORD IT'S WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL COPENHAGEN' —AND VICE VERSA BY NORMAN H. TILSLEY DENMARK is, without a doubt, Bedford...

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Tailored

By A. J. P. Wilding A NII Pei ech E, MIRTE ROAD TEST: Leyland Bonneted Super Comet B R ITISH vehicle makers in general have...

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The wise operator selects exactly the right type from the

wide range available By P. A. C. BROCKINGTON, A M I Mech E KNOW YOUR FILTERS A HIGH concentration of dust in the atmosphere...

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TO RUSSIR 'WITH IMO

NEW FORD '0' SERIES TRUCKS BREAK NEW FRONTIERS IN TOUGHEST ENDURANCE TEST! LONDON TO LONDON VIA SOCHI-10,000 MILES! At this...

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ly KNOWLEDGE ■ ni IRTE, Assoc Inst that breaches

the Tariff Barriers British friction material makers benefit from long export experience F OR more than 50 years British...

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UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER?

Who would ever have expected that a Labour Minister of 'ransport would appear to support independent hauliers against trade...

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A VARIED COLLECTION

but almost all the important newcomers are missing A REVIEW OF ROAD TESTS BY THE TECHNICAL EDITOR A s is usual in a...

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ADVICE ON TRANS PORT PROBLEMS • • • • •

• • • S • • • • • • • • • • • • • Off-beat Costings V ALIDITY of costing comparisons was the subject of an article in this...

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Great Day for Veterans

O N SUNDAY I was treated to a free ride to Brighton with the Historic Commercial Vehicle Club. As guests of Ernie Quinton, the...