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8th August 1969
8th August 1969
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Act now on load safety

If the road goods transport industry does not soon take steps to draw up a code of practice for the safe loading of vehicles,...

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N BC announces el Om

orders for 1970 by Derek Moses SWING TO SINGLE-DECKERS ACCELERATES • An acceleration of the swing to singledecker buses; the...

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Spotlight on Swansea Goods Vehicle Centre

by John Darker • What do operators think about the efficiency of the test application system administered by the Swansea Goods...

'Dearer drinks' rates storm

• Massive rate increases imposed by National Carriers Ltd on freight traffic to Clyde Coast resorts have sparked off a lively...

I FW R I re-names examinations

• The Institute of the Furniture Warehousing and Removals Industry council have accepted the recommended changes put forward by...

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237 London depots under shut-down threat

• Of more than 600 depots belonging to Road Haulage Association members in London, no fewer than 237 were last year under...

Police at haulier's closure clash

by an industrial correspondent • Accusations, recriminations and blows flew on Monday when Mr. Ronald Hines, managing...

Hay's Wharf in jeopardy

• A statement issued by the proprietors of Hay's Wharf Ltd., published in the July 31 issue of The Port, carries a warning that...

Cross-wind survey

• A survey of places where cross-winds pose special hazards to drivers is being carried out by the Freight Transport...

RHA Conference speakers

• The director of industrial affairs, Confederation of British Industry, Mr. K. J. Johnson, will speak on industrial relations...

Hoynor to pay in full

• Creditors of Hoynor Ltd., the Danburybased trailer makers and bodybuilders, will be paid in full, Mr. Gordon Hoy. managing...

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International pallet-size battle crunch date in October

• Continental railways and many large commercial customers are to press the International Standardization Organization to...

Transport Act condensed

• "The Transport Act 1968", by Vincent Powell-Smith, LLM, Dip. Corn., FRSA, will shortly find a place on the bookshelves of...

GPO prepares for mechanized parcel post

• New steps in handling of parcel mail are to be taken by the Post Office in preparation for the concentrated mechanized parcel...

NR DC joins vehicle weighing quest

• The National Research Development Corporation and the Freight Transport Association are inviting suggestions or designs for a...

TDG buys Cousins

• Transport Development Group Ltd. has acquired the issued share capital of Cousins Transport Ltd. and its associated company...

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Chick transporters for Rumania

• Day-old chicks-32,000 of them—are to be the payload of each of three special controlled-temperature vans which have just been...

Export impetus

The accompanying table of registrations of new vehicles in Great Britain, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man, recently...

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British Rail and Rootes f2im. deal

BRITISH RAIL (Scotland) and Rootes Motors Ltd. settled a £2,250,000 deal in Glasgow this week. Over the next five years...

Earls Court Conference, Exhibition

DETAILS of the conference, "The Container and the User", to be held at Earls Court on September 23 and 24 in conjunction with...

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Conferences and courses

Maudslay Fellow Commonership • The trustees of the Maudslay Foundation have established the Fellow Commonership at Pembroke...

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Glasgow PTA soon?

• A decision on whether or not to establish a Passenger Transport Authority for Clydeside will be taken by the end of the year...

No more ex-LTB buses for Ceylon

• Even the 1,000 additional buses the Ceylon Transport Board needs to provide a satisfactory service to its commuters will not...

IN BRIEF

• Increases in bus fares of up to 3d per fare were approved by Hull City Council last week despite opposition from the Labour...

Council subsidy for local services

• Hexham (Northumberland) rural council has offered an increased subsidy of E130 to Rochester and Marshall Ltd., bus owners,...

Reading buys Bristol VRT double-deckers

• Ten Bristol VRT long-wheelbase rearengined double-deckers have been ordered by Reading Corporation Transport, which, in...

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Freightliners to wait for 25 artics decision

• An application by Freightliners Ltd. for a new A licence for 25 vehicles was heard by Mr. C. R. Hodgson, the North Western...

'Try again' firm succeeds

• If two haulage operators planning a joint business did not toe the line and avoid mistakes of the past they could expect to...

No on hire' label leads to fine

• Mercers (Longridge) Ltd., coach operators from Longridge, were fined £25 for using a motor coach without a p.s.v. licence, at...

Defective p.s.v. leads to ban.

• The former head of a Harlow coach company, which took local children to and from school, was ordered to pay over £200 at...

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' How about six?' asks Liverpool haulier

• The Red House Garage Co. Ltd. did not challenge a traffic examiner's report last week when appearing at a S.177 inquiry, but...

Another Stiller application refused

• G. Stiller (Transport) Ltd. of Middleton St. George, Darlington, Co. Durham, was last week refused permission to carry out...

Mislaid records bring £1,200 fines

• At Stamford, Lincs., magistrates' court, Harold Edward Musgrove, Gervais Harold Robert Musgrove and Ralph Gordon Victor...

Spare bus fleet costs £4 us a day judge rules

D Damages of £730 awarded to Birningham Corporation in the High Court )11 Thursday of last week for damage to )ne of their...

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'Army of traffic examiners' foils BRS drivers

• Eight BRS drivers who were fined a total of £138 with £36 costs by Bristol magistrates on Monday for failing to keep current...

Disqualification a 'frightening penalty'

• If a young haulage contractor lost his driving licence it would be a frightening penalty and kill his one-man business, Mr....

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Wear checks by oil analysis„,a—ton

• Any wear of any part of a power unit or transmission produces traces of metals and these traces are found in the lubricating...

New H.W.P.

all-purpose tipper • Versatility is a feature of a new tri-axle tipping skeletal trailer announced by H.W.P. Engineering Co....

Twin to tandem twin

Anton Industries of Chesterfield has .cently completed the conversion of a twin3cillating axle low-loader into a tandem...

Transit pick-up and dropside trucks

• Following last week's announcement of two Transit-based tippers, Ford has now announced, as additions to its range, pick-up...

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Independent tandem for trailers

• The prototype of a semi-trailer equipped with a tandem-axle running gear with independent coil-spring suspension has been...

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Loads and forces (12)

• Ignorance may be bliss, but there is nothing more disturbing for someone in the know than to be overtaken on a clearway at...

SAAB-Scania expansion

• SAAB-Scania of Sweden announces an extensive investment programme in its car and commercial vehicle activities during the...

Environmental tests at Renold Research Centre

• Facilities at the recently opened Research and Development Centre of Renold Ltd, at Wythenshavve, Manchester, cover all...

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The Guinea Pig

by R. D. Cater, AMInstBE IN last week's Commercial Motor my colleague Tony Wilding gazed into his crystal ball in an attempt...

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Bird's eye view

*The Tasker trail Anyone who has read L.T.C. Rolt's absorbing stories of the great engineers, especially Telford and Brunel,...

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costing for maximum profit

KEEPING in mind that costing is simply a means to an end, we now need to look at the preliminary work necessary to measure...

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I recall a few years back seeing a Bud Neil

cartoon showing two men standing alongside a computer. One was looking dejected, the other half-smiling and holding an oil can...

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News from the Market

Janus comments FREEDOM of choice in transport was the aim of road operators in their campaign against the Transport Bill last...

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No real discrepancy

In the Commercial Motor of July 25 Janus commented on the different goods vehicle totals published in Basic Road Statistics,...

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Leeds University's useful bus seminar

Using the computer for practical scheduling tasks; choosing the best buses for modern conditions; looking at staff recruitment...

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Management

matters continued converts these passenger counts into bus schedules showing optimum vehicle numbers and headway required....

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I wonder if you can give me any infor mation

on possible legal charges covering the case of a road user who is killed by an unidentified vehicle? I am referring to the case...

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Itinerant transport tutors

THERE will be an increase of those preparing for transport professional examinations by correspondence when the new session...

Records of hours worked

-IAVING examined, over the past few weeks. :he permitted hours of work for drivers under :he old and new legislation, it now...

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Mobile yard-ramp

To overcome the problem of access for fork-lift trucks and other vehicles into containers the Copperloy Corporation of...

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/KEEPING \ THEM RUNNING , \ With Ron Cater

Shortage of spare parts still remains a serious problem to operators. No matter how good the intentions of the fleet owner...