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otor VOLUME 133 No. 3415 May 7 1971 :contents A strong case for the local touch The report of the PTA's investigation into...

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THE WEEK

FTA probes customer reaction to test scheme • After over two years of operation, is the Government's good vehicle plating and...

Willowbrook sold for £0.7m

• Willowbrook Ltd, the Loughboroughbased bus bodybuilding member of the Duple Group has been sold for f700,000. to Mr George...

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:o-op ehicle fleets vill decline

7affic managers hear )out retail trends; nail engines and illution; coming safety atures; maintenance cilities; and anagement...

Six-group reorganization for National Freight Corporation

• The National Freight Corporation has organized its operating companies into six groups, each headed by a co-ordinator charged...

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Nationwide spares service launched

• A detailed but extremely easy-to-us catalogue is the basis of a new nation2 network of vehicle under-chassis spare announced...

Mersey tunnel tolls up 300 p.c.

• Proposed increases in Mersey Tunne tolls could provide an additional deterrent t( the commercial traffic using the Port o...

Crane Fruehauf sales up

• Crane Fruehauf Trailers increased theil sales for the year ended December 31 197( by 29 per cent over the previous year tc...

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)oubts vmain after i•encli visit

lain Sherriff Although a party of operators and iler manufacturers visited France last ek to see how the Novatrans road/rail...

3perator protection wanted

Doubts about the effectiveness of a }hp /ton power /weight ratio for heavy iods vehicles, without a requirement to test...

Jobless training hitch

• The Department of Employment is considering proposals from the RTITB concerning the training of redundant drivers CM, April...

RHA's October conference

• The Road Haulage Association's programme for the annual conference, to be held at Brighton from October 25 to 27, will follow...

July 1 for corrosive control

• Mr Richard Sharpies, Minister of State, announced last week that regulations to control the transport by road of corrosive...

ERF sales record

• ERF (Holdings) Ltd produced a record number of commercial vehicles in the year ended April 3, Mr Peter Foden, chairman,...

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31d-timers ake the Brighton Road

■ If old soldiers never die, old vehicles ctually multiply—so it would appear if le Historic Commercial Vehicle Club's in to...

EEC seeks better records

• The EEC Commission is trying to improve the enforcement of the two-year-old regulation relating to driving time and...

Hilton load to Budapest

• Albany Freight Ltd has awarded Hilton TIR groupage service the major contract for the movement of British industrial and...

Highway Code takes heavy

toll by Paul Brockington • There was a roar of laughter at the Wolverhampton prize-giving on Sunday when M. Richards of...

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Increasing public transport appeal

• Ways of increasing the attractiveness of public -transport, both directly and by mea sures taken behind the scenes, formed an...

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• Quieter than quiet by Scania

• Total enclosure of the rear-mounted engine, employing two small radiators with low-speed fans, forced air cooling of the...

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Bee-Line wins traffic court appeal

• Bee-Line Roadways Ltd, Middlesbrough, the largest operator of excursions and tours in the North East, has succeeded in its...

LUT's profits drop

• The profit of Lancashire United Transport for the year ended December 31 1970 was £162,147 compared to £248,942 for the...

Bus briefs

• The move by the Minister for Transport Industries to simplify the law on bus and coach drivers' hours (CM, March 5) has been...

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LA deletes margin of BRSL

• Following convictions at Cardiff magistrates' court in February (CM February 12) when British Road Services Ltd was. fined a...

Objections by Merseyside and SELNEC PTEs fail

• Objections by the Merseyside PTE (southern division) and the SELNEC PTE were overruled by the North Western Traffic...

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LA told of

)perator's self-imposed penalty No penalty was imposed by Maj-Gen L. F. J. Elmslie, South Eastern LA, at astbourne this week,...

DoE used faulty weighbridge

• The Department of the Environment vithdrew summonses for overloading /chicks against 18 hauliers at Middlesnough on Wednesday...

33 vehicles allowed for F licence

D D. B. Marshall (Newbridge) Ltd, which )perates a chicken growing, rearing rocessing and packing business at five )oints in...

People

Ralph Bennett, 46, a member of London Transport Executilfe since 1968, is to succeed Anthony Bull as deputy chairman when the...

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• Family planning the Ford way (with transmissions)

By Paul Brockington • Most operators have a low level of understanding of their own transmission problems, in the Ford view,...

Ford Code for Transits

• "Ford Code", which encourages body makers and equipment suppliers to mount their products on Ford trucks efficiently and...

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THE BRITISH HAVE GOT TO BE BETTER THAN BEST

lain Sherriff, MITA EUGENIO ANTUNES is Portuguese and a director of Uniao de Transportadores para Importacao e Comercio Lda,...

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TRANSMISSIONS

by Paul Brockington, miMechE 3. geared for export MATCHING a transmission to the power unit and to operator requirements is...

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PAR FLUNG FORDS

PERRY FLOWERS by Tim Hoare SPITE the strength of the well-known ional Dutch manufacturer and the resentation of other...

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3ird's eye view by the Hawk

Join them! - many, when a Minister visits a factory s given a bright and shiny briefing about company by the management and a...

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WHERE TRAILERS

NEED TO BE TOUGH by Gordon Crabtree EVEN before the days of ping-pong diplomacy, UK manufacturers of semitrailers were...

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know the law

by Les Oldridge AIRTE, AMIMI Notice of intended prosecution AFTER a driver has been involved in an accident or has been...

letters

We welcome letters for publication on transport topics. Address them to Commercial Motor, Dorset House, Stamford Street, London...

Dangers of new operators

I would like to congratulate you on your realistic and forthright editorial (CM. April 16), and to express the hope that your...

Anti-jack-knife dossier

After witnessing many results of vehicl jack-knifing although fitted with anti-jar knife devices, I wonder whether any of yc...

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kNTROCK BRAKE SYSTEMS: VIRYLL PAY FOR SAFETY?

)ULD anti-locking brake systems be le compulsory on commercial vehicles? call for legislation on this, and on the gation to fit...

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'hns Wart/low

There were only three minutes to the final stle in the Rugby game between Coventry the North of England when Chris rdlow, the...

road and

workshop by Handyman Bench wise: reducing downtime PROBABLY the safest approach in the search for reduced downtime is to use...

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TESTERS'

TWELVEMONTH by Tony Wilding, whiled NINETEEN vehicles have been put through road tests in the past year, which is Around the...

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The lesson of Foulness

by Janus I N most quarters the Foulness decision has been greeted as a victory for the environmental lobby. Such a judgment...

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management

matters by John Darker, AMBIM Transport and distribution consultants No3, Howard, Packham and Associates Wing or sluggish...

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The 'Q' and 'A' Bureau is a CM service. Its

expert staff will gladly answer your queries. Letters should be addressed to: 'Ct' and 'A Bureau, Commercial Motor, Dorset...

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the common room

by George Wilmot Senior Lecturer in Transport Studies, University of London. R. Tech and R. Tech Eng becoming complex THE...

dates for your diary

For the next seven days commencing May7 to13. SUNDAY Start of National Association of Furniture Warehousemen and Removers'...

security Use laminated glass

by Inspector K. W. Norman, Crime Prevention Section, New Scotland Yard. • Lessons can be learned from the recer attack...

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ssure washer

Engineering Ltd has )ped a hot water pressure 3r operating at a pressure ) psi which is known as the Hotmaster Mk 3. It tes at...

3r holding ure

Churchill and Co Ltd has cad a door holding fixture o request of the Motor ance Repair Research 3. It is used for door repairs...

Floor seals and polishes

A completely new range of floor-care products has been developed by Applied Chemicals to meet the requirements of the many...

Hydraulic accumulators Hydraulic accumulators of the bladder, piston, indicator rod,

Miniature sleeve, pistoncum-diaphragm and stainlesssteel-bellows types are described and illustrated in a . new brochure...

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Fifth-wheel frame

A fifth-wheel mounting frame with lead-up ramps has been developed by Slaven Transport Products Ltd to augment the company's...

Refrigeration unit

Weighing 350Ib, a one-piece vehicle refrigerating unit has been produced by TransFrig Ltd that has an extraction capacity of...

Static packer

A new company—Anchc Ltd, an Anglo-American venture by T. T. Boughtor and the Kysor Group of Ca( Michigan—has been form, design,...

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keeping them running

by Tony Wilding In most fleets the cars run by company representatives and so on can be a considerable nuisance to an engineer...

Slow motors

Danfoss is marketing a new series in its range of Orbit slow-speed hydraulic motors known as the OMR. This type incorporates an...

Blower relief valve

Complete protection of the blower of a bulk vehicle against over-pressure is claimed to be provided by a relief valve known as...

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ecial seat Its

ble and visual warning units a feature of a proposed -belt system announced by Restraint Systems Ltd, Ii is jointly owned by...

'gine-driven elder

3tang is the name given to an me-driven welder that has n added to the welding ipment produced by Max Arc ; It has an output of...

Steel tube

The hose and tube division of Alenco Industrial Components is now offering a wider range of Ermeto cold-drawn seamless steel...

Printing roller

A new method of marking transit packaging, ctaimed to enhance legibility and increase packing department productivity, has been...