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7th September 1962
7th September 1962
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A NOTHER aspect of the bad public image of themselves that hauliers project (" The Commercial Motor" drew attention to it last...

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L.A. Would Welcome Appeal

T HEWest Midland Licensing. Authority, Mr. John Else, in a written decision issued last Tuesday, granted an unopposed...

B.E.A. Wilt compete For E.E.C. Freight BRITISH EUROPEAN AIRWAYS are

• planning to fight for a large share of atiV new freight business which will appear if Britain 'enters the Common Market....

New Taunton Depot T HE new Taunton depot, opened recently by

Marshalsea Bros., Ltd,, has facilities for servicing all types of commercial vehicle, including a 24-hour breakdown recovery...

Artics for B.R.'s New Bulk Coal Service

'FIVE Albion Clydesdale tractive units I and nine B.T.C. Four-in-Line semitrailers with 12-ton-capacity bodies built by...

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Lorry Drivers' Centre for Rotterdam r - k A LORRY-DRIVERS' centre, includ 7

r - k ing motel acornmodation for 50 persons, parking facilities, a restaurant, freight offices, a filling station and repair...

LIAVOC (to quote managing director I I '.V1onty Prichard) was

caused on Wednesday to the production schedules of F. Perkins, Ltd. The company on that day celebrated the production of its...

Goods-vehicle Casualties T HE largest increase in road casualties for the

first six months of this year was among goods vehicle drivers and passengers; the number killed and injured r135;s. by 12 per...

New Shildon Depot for Davisons Transport

MO company operating large vehicles I can run them satisfactorily unless they have got premises to which they can he brought...

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U.S. Air-Road Service A CO-ORDINATED air/road transport r - k service agreement

has been reached by Yale Express System, Inc., and 17 major airlines serving New York City. The contract, which became...

Drivers in Pay Strike S EVERAL hundred oil company drivers staged

a one-day token strike in West London on Monday and more than 200 staged a similar strike at Avonmouth on Tuesday. These...

Dump-trucks Application Draws Western Objectors

B MUSH RAILWAYS and a number of road hauliers objected when Horreil Transport, Ltd., of Kingsteignton, Devon, applied to the...

Ulster Pay Rise MORTHERN IRELAND'S 12,000 road 1 , 11 haulage workers

have been given an increase in pay and a shorter working week. The Minister of Labour has endorsed a Wages Council...

Some Headway in L.T.E. Talks

From our Industrial Correspondent Y offering to give one-fifth compensation in shorter working time and four-fifths in money to...

Liverpool Get Increases and 3d. Minimum

New Fares Should Bring Extra £630,000 L AST Tuesday Liverpool Corporation were granted permission to increase their bus fares...

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Busmen's Cricket Final Q1 IR M INGHAM CITY TRANSPORT L.'

won the 1962 National MA/. Cricket Competition for the Castro! Shield, heating the Northern General Transport Company in the...

Short Fleetline for Walsall

A A MONG the most interesting doubledeckers due to appear at the Commercial Motor Show, will be a special version of the...

Forward-entrance Routemaster for L.T.

A FORWARD-ENTRANCE 30-ft.1 - 1. long 69-seat version of the Route master double-decker will enter experimental service on some...

End of Glasgow Trams O VER 100 members of the Tramway

and Light Railway Society of London went for a tour of Glasgow last Saturday by two special tramcars. Two Coronation Mk. 1...

Belfast Corporation Loss in 1961-62

QUBSTANTIALLY reduced profit from trolleybuses, combined with an increased deficit on motorbuses, has resulted in a £58,014...

L.T.'s "Silver" Bus Changes Routes L ONDON TRANSPORT'S unpainted 1 -4 aluminium

alloy bus, RM.664, known as "The White Lady," has been switched this week to route 17 (North FinchleyCamberwell Green). This...

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Aytoun Liquidator's Application Further Adjourned

THE Scottish Licensing Authority, Mr. W. F. Quin, agreed with a submission made on behalf of objectors that the liquidator of...

B Licence Granted to Replace C.

. A -GENERAL dealer, Mr. C. A. PA Meredith of Rainham, Essex, was granted a B licence by the Metropolitan Licensing Authority,...

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BlackburnLondon Excursions —Decision Reserved

A T a hearing of the North Western PI Traffic Commissioners held in Manchester last Thursday and Friday, a group of Blackburn...

Large Contract

B Y far the largest application to be notified this week comes from the Yorkshire Area, where Cutts and Fletcher, Ltd., of...

Fines for Records and Hours Offences

CINES totalling .£46 were imposed on 1 Andy's Transport, 'Ltd., a Banbury haulage company with 40 lorries, and three of their...

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The Revocation That Wasn't

T HERE is likely to be an interesting public sitting to be held soon before the South Eastern Traffic Commissioners concerning,...

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The resignation is announced of Mrs. Edith Heyman, sales directer

of the Smith's Delivery Vehicle Group. Mrs. Heyman joined the company as sales manaL'er in 1950, after a career in journalism,...

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Boys Cut Out Hop

A DEVICE intended to eliminate the rt effects of brake torque reaction in the suspension of rear axles is to be shown by Henry...

Fire Appliances on Show Next Month

F OUR Bedford fire appliances, all with H.C.B. Engineering Co. bodywork, are to be shown at the 1962 Chief Fire Officers'...

Ford Warranty Doubled A S from last Monday, the warranty on

commercial vehicles and cars produced by the Ford Motor Co., Ltd., has been extended from six months to 12 months with a...

Bogie Scale Model O N the stand of Eaton Axles, Ltd.,

at the Commercial Motor Show will be a half-scale working model of the company's new series 30D double-drive tandem bogie....

ORDERS AND DELIVERIES

FOR CAR DELIVERIES: The Carter Engineering Co., Ltd., Tamworth. Staffordshire, now have orders worth £210,000 for their...

The Commercial Motor Show

T HE next three issues of The Commercial Motor will he devoted to covering the many aspects of the Commercial Motor Show which...

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Registrations Down in April

THFRE were fewer registrations of conimcrcial vehicles in April (22,385) than in the preceding month (24,621). Registrations in...

8,000 Karosa Buses by 1967

T HE Jelecz, Poland, commercial v eh icl es plant, operated jointly by the Polish and Czech motor industries (see The Comm -dal...

New Smiths Division F OLLOWING the acquisition of the whole of

the issued capital of Lodge Plugs, Ltd., earlier this year, the directors of S. Smith and Sons (England), Ltd., announce their...

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• To Open the Show T HE Commercial Motor Show at

Earls Court will be officially opened on September 21 by Sir William McFadzean. who is chairman of the Export Council for...

Steering the Axles of Semi-trailers

' ATENT No. 893,404 refers to semitrailers having two axles at the rear and deals with a method of steering the leading one....

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Easier Wheel Changes

rA. A SPARE-WHEEL carrier incorporating worth and wheel gearing to raise and lower the wheel has been developed by Bifort...

C lass-fibre Standard

riLASS-FIBRE materials for the rein forcement of polyester resin systems are dealt with in a British Standards , pecification...

Rust-Inhibiting Paper

( -HEM IC ALLY impregnated paper, intended for wrapping ferrous-Metal and aluminium parts and to prevent corrosion is now...

Handy Lamps

TWO models of rechargeable fl.ash I lights, known as Super 200 and Galaxy, have been introduced by Gulton Industries (Britain),...

New Automatic Drain Valve

A FULLY-AUTOMATIC drain valve I - 1 for use on air lines has been introduced by Nuquip, Ltd. Known as the D.8-000,• it can deal...

All-night Petrol Stations

THE booklet published by the R.A.C. I listing petrol stations which stay open all night has now been completely revised. The...

Super Light ,Truck Tyre

PA A NEW range of tyres for light vans and trucks has been introduced by the India Tyre and Rubber Co.. Ltd. This new Light...

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DODGE return to home p•sav. market

A NEW bus chassis which is to be offered to operators in this country marks the return of Dodge Brothers (Britain), Ltd., to...

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A Swimming 5-tonner for Civvy Street

Alvis Stalwart Amphibious Load Carrier at Show F OLLOVVING the announcement that the British Ministry of Defence have placed an...

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A clear-cab 2-tanner from LEYLAND

A COMPLETELY new forward control 2-ton goods chassis marks the entry of Leyland Motors, Ltd., into the lightweight...

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Park Royal and Roe at Earls Court

UIGFILIGHTS among the Park Royal exhibits at the Commercial Motor Show are bodywork for the recently announced A.E.C. Renown...

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HORIZONTAL ENGINE

at rear of new Stepless-floor Daimler T HE prototype of an intriguing development of the Daimler Fleetline rear-engined...

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New Harrington Coachwork

1 -- X A NEW coach body for A.E.C. NEW or Leyland Leopard 36-ft.long chassis, and a new version of the Crusader model for the...

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make the most of new steels

A MONC, the nine exhibits on the stand of R. A. Dyson and Co., Ltd., at the Commercial Motor Show, will he 30-ton low-loading...

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SEDDON reduce the weight and standardize on units

A SWEEPING programme of rationalization has been applied by Seddon Diesel Vehicles, Ltd., to their range of goods vehicles,...

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Newcomers from AUSTIN

IN addition to other new models, which I will be announced later, Show exhibits of The Austin Motor Co.,. Ltd., will include a...

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Gordon Dawson

H ow came it that Gordon Dawson, director of engineering of F. Perkins, Ltd., took his degree at the University of Aberdeen? I...

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Market Problems

by JANUS This little piggy went to markei; This little piggy stayed at home. \y ll.1. Britain join the Common Market?...

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Bird's Eye View .

A COMPANY who are very, justly proud of a unique "record are F. Perkins, Ltd., the Peterborough diesel engine manufacturers. On...

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Price of under employment

Ignorance of the variation in cost per mile is the cause of much unprofitable operation of small vans R EQUESTS to this office...