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8th March 1968
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Budget blues or red herring?

This is the time of year when sectional interests tell the Chancellor of the Exchequer what they would like to see in his...

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Mrs Castle to launch productivity talks

TOUGH BARGAINING AHEAD ON DRIVERS' HOURS from our industrial correspondent • Mrs. Barbara Castle hopes to launch a new...

It looks like the guillotine

from our political correspondent • The Government faced up to its dilemma over the Transport Bill this week. With its...

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High-compression Transits

• A 93 bhp high-compression version of' the Ford 2-litre V4 petrol engine is now available as a no-cost option for Transit...

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Warning: what cuts in drivers' hours will cost in farm haulage

• Farm produce faces increased haulage charges of up to 40 per cent because of extra labour costs arising from the proposals...

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Bill's effect on building costs

• Unless the Transport Bill is amended in respect of drivers' hours and licensing provisions, the direct and indirect effects...

'Rail' fish by road

• The start of the white fish season led to a dispute last week between fish buyers and British Railways in Mallaig over the...

Non-union ban?

• Non-union lorry drivers reporting to London docks from now on may be turned away by dockers. The reason for this lies in...

Mrs Castle's bill for the Bill

from our special correspondent • A claim that quantity licensing would in fact reduce user costs—by promoting transfer to...

Quality licensing will start next year

The need for operators' licences—"quality licensing"—will probably start in the first half of next year. The Minister of...

"LDOY" tests for heavy goods licence

• The manoeuvring section tests for the heavy goods vehicle driving licence will be similar to those used in the Lorry Driver...

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Freedom rallies start

Featherbedding the minor carrier • The new taxes and severe restrictions imposed on the road haulage industry by the...

Raw deal for small hauliers

• The proposals for road haulage legislation contained in the Transport Bill fail to answer the needs of the industry or the...

New attacks on abnormal loads charge

• The only result of the abnormal load: charges proposed in the Transport Bill woulc be to put companies out of business and...

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These container rates are 'loss leaders'

HIGHLY COMPETITIVE EUR SERVICES TO ROTTERDAM AND DUNKIRK by John Darker II After only a month of operation, European Unit...

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PTEs and independents who will arbitrate?

• The Government and the Opposition clashed last week over who should arbitrate in disputes between Passenger Transport...

Tax lunacy of road charges

• - Are we really going to prejudice industry, exports, the Development Areas, the lot, simply to satisfy an economist's pipe...

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Protest at test fees

• Goods vehicles operators will pay between £4m and £4.25m in testing fees if the recent Ministry proposals go through, the...

Executive changes at LUT

J. Harris will on April 1 succeed J. W. Morley as secretary of Lancashire United Transport Ltd. Mr. Morley retires as director...

Nhat the routeing policy overlooked

A lorry driver had to run up the line waving a ch to stop a train after his lorry stalled on a ntinental-type railway crossing,...

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' Restraint' pledge on objections by BR chairman

• "Sensible" operation of the quantity licensing proposals when they became law under the Transport Act was promised this...

McAlpine witness gives evidence

• A witness from Sir Alfred McAlpine and Sons Ltd. attended a public inquiry in Manchester last week and was instrumental in...

No public support for tours

• Lack of public witnesses brought an unsuccessful conclusion to the application of A. J. Charlwood for a licence to operate...

Discipline delay

• In Hanley on Friday, the West Midlat LA, Mr. J. Else, delayed the granting of B-variation application to Holciitch Tran...

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Mr. Wells is lenient

• "Lenient" action was taken by the Scottish deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. L. A. Wells, in Aberdeen last week, when he...

Brum fares appeal fails

• The Minister of Transport has dismissed the appeal of Birmingham Corporation against a decision of the West Midland Traffic...

Timber artic appeal succeeds

• A firm whose articulated timber lorry toppled over when making a wide, left-hand turn near the Houses of Parliament,...

Try again, says Tribunal

• When Mr. A. T. Wheatley appealed to the Transport Tribunal on Tuesday, Mr. G. D. Squibb, the Tribunal's president, advised...

Devon quarry rates still uncertain

The Mendips and Cheddar Valley tipper operators and quarry owners have reached agreement over their new rates schedules, but...

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No Coal Board witness for 75-tipper switch

• The applicant was not seeking to roam around Yorkshire like a robber baron but would rely on old, faithful customers for 95...

Bulwark's thousandth

The 1,000th vehicle to join the Bulwark Transport fleet was handed over recently to the managing director of Bulwark United...

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Tribunal backs 'strong words'

• The Transport Tribunal has dismissed the appeal of D. M. Turner of Freckleton, near Preston, against a decision of the...

U nawa re--but still liable, say judges

• Magistrates sitting at Old Fletton, Hunts, on 11 July 1967, erred in dismissing summonses alleging that Mr. Neville Buckle...

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Coventry another o-m-o pioneer

by Derek Moses • Although much has been written about the development of one-man double-deck buses by Manchester City...

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PI B approves 6d minimum for London

• The Prices and Incomes Board has approved London Transport's proposals for fare increases averaging 14 percent, bringing in...

Little enthusiasm for Glasgow leasing details

PTA defiance • The draft agreement prepared by the Scottish Bus Group for leasing Glasgow's municipal transport was not...

Bus tax rebate

• The Conservatives were this week taking advantage of the passage of the Transport Bill to attempt to make some basic...

Pay deals quiz

• The Prices and Incomes Board is to examine pay deals for busmen in Belfast, Glasgow and Liverpool, where rises ranging from...

D oncaster o-m-o

• Subject to the conclusion of successful negotiations with the unions, Doncaster Corporation Transport should be operating...

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Low-loaders with their feet firmly on the ground

by R. D. Cater • A short report about a range of groundlevel loading trailer equipment to be manufactured by Becorit...

Running weight for brake tests

• It has been confirmed by the Ministry of Transport that efficiencies obtained on roadside brake tests of commercial...

Side-by-side pallets in new TIR trailer

• The standard range of Merriworth TIR semi-trailers has been added to this week with a 12-metre model. The first unit has...

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Torque responsive transmission control

The latest fully transistorized control system demonstrated in second CAV ' Press call' • Automatic gear changing that...

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Bulk vehicle developments

• A new vehicle to handle bigger bulk container demountable bodies, and a demountable compaction unit with a capacity of 130...

Gibson for Lambeth

• The London Borough of Lambeth has ordered six Gibson compression-type refusecollection vehicles based on Bedford chassis...

Rootes turns corner

• After a net loss of over £10m for the year ending July 31 1967, Rootes Motors Ltd. reports a profit of £927,000 for the...

Marketing W-P

• A special company has been formed to market the Wickham-Poole range of industrial transport systems. Known as Wickham-Poole...

Where hydrostatic can score

• Practical possibilities of hydrostatic transmission were discussed by the members of the Institute of Road Transport...

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New equipment and publications

The broken road-spring and the irate boss looking for every bit of extra payload—these are common problems faced by the...

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Vehicle recovery: tricks, trucks and tactics (6)

• Long before our age of hydraulics, button pressing, reduction gears or the differential chain block set, a man was able to...

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*Where's the fire?

Steel swarf gives off a harmless, odourless vapour. It's .normally invisible but an Exeter haulier has just discovered—...

*Spitzbergen service

A Dennis apprentice has an unusual maintenance task facing him later this year. Twenty-year-old James Hughes has been selected...

*Barbara's supermen?

Heaven forbid that I should criticize the longest possible discussion being given to the Transport Bill, but the present...

* Sins of the children

We've heard of the sins of the parents being visited on the children, but now it has worked in reverse. Eastern Scottish buses...

*Learning together

The theme of togetherness in transport education was very much to the fore at the annual dinner of the Institute of Traffic...

*Immured

George's efforts to see it all come true are apparently not helped too much by the title of his section of London...

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Re-launch for BMC's ET

by A. J. P. Wilding, AMIMechE, MIRTE BMC was the first of the medium-weight truck producers to bring out tilt-cab models with...

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Mrs Castle keeps operators on the hop

''WHAT do you think of the Government': Transport Bill proposals?" I put this questior to Mr. R. A. Oaths, general manager of...

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Be prepared

I feel that I must comment on K. W. Hutchingson's kick at the non-existent 24-hour commercial garage facilities (CM, February...

Seven-day delays

I am replying to Mr. Hutchingson's letter about 24-hour breakdown services (CM, Feb. 21. I have been employed in the motor...

Is it commercial yet?

Looking back through some past issues of COMMERCIAL MOTOR I came across an article by lain Sherriff on the road passenger...

Ingenious, but. . .

I read with interest the article by "Handyman" on ground anchors for recovery (CM, Feb. 23). I thought the suggested anchor...

Enough!

On your letters page on February 9 I noticed a mention of Glazebrook Transport's bicycle for obtaining small spares, etc. The...

Braking compromise Mr. Corke's letter concerning the comments of Mr.

A. Williamson of Vauxhall in - The next 10 years" feature raises some interesting questions on vehicle braking. There is no...

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Janus comments

Parliamentary auction LEGISLATION must always have some justification, however far-fetched. For every provision in the...

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Training of training officers

ALREADY there are 21 industrial training boards covering the employment of 11 million workers. By the end of this year a...

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a Last year I formed a small company to

repair and overhaul fuel injection equipment and we have already outgrown Dui' planned capacity. Do you consider that the...

CI Kerbside reflectors would seem to offer an economical safety aid for night or fog driving. Is this a practical solution?

A The Road Research Laboratory has recently developed a new design of reflecting kerb. The kerb-face is inclined at 45deg and...

Q We operate a Dodge 1963 six-wheeler

which has a maker's recommended g.v.w. of 18 tons. We have been operating at 20 tons g.v.w. but now have been told by one of...

Q I am a solid fuel merchant with two

platform vehicles operating on C licence. I also have a spare vehicle for which I have applied for a 8 licence to carry solid...

We operate a mobile show trailer which is taken to

agricultural shows by a tractive unit. Additionally, we have a low-loading articulated trailer for transporting a crane from...

a Would you clarify the position regar

ding demountable bodies carried on rigid vehicles? Must the weight of the detachable portion be included in the unladen weight...

Q How do basic rates and average weekly earnings compare for haulage workers?

A Taking the driv&s in the middle group of vehicles (over 10 tons and up to 15 tons), as set out in the Road Haulage Council...

Q I have seen reports that the Le Havre port area

is to undergo large-scale development in the next decade. Can you confirm this? A It has been reported that 25,000 acres of...

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The transport examiner's notebook be specific

FROM early March to May/June seems a fairly long step in time; for examination preparation these weeks can flash past with...