C 0 p.s.v. are in and C-licensed vehicles are out. That is the crux of this week's disclosure that the Minister of Labour, Mr....

B RS (PARCELS) LTD. have purchased the entire issued share capital of William Cooper and Sons (Carriers) Ltd., of Prestatyn,...

for a party, limited to 40 members of the Road Haulage Association's longdistance group, to visit West Germany next May. The...

BY S. BUCKLEY Q N Monday it became known that the Ministry of Labour will be circulating a draft definition in connection with...

Parcels Traffic DRESS reports alleging delays of up I to three weeks in deliveries of parcels from King's Cross Station,...

text meeting of the national corn:e of the RHA tipping vehicles al group on October 21 will be almost entirely to a study of g...

" BELIEVE 8 h.p. per ion is a much I more realistic figure" was the comment of Sir Donald Stokes, chairman and managing...

Stephen Swingler. joint parliamentary secretary to the Ministry of Transport. told a British Railways discussion group at Stoke...

'THE PLA announced on Wednesday that A. lorries waiting to load and unload may park inside some docks outside normal hours....

equipment will be displayed by the York Trailer Co. lid. at the Truck, Body and Equipment Exhibition which opens in New York...

Company, Tayforth Holdings 09651 lid., which made an offer to acquire ordinary shares of Tayforth Ltd.. announces that this has...

A MOBILE exhibition unit, 30 ft. long and incorporating a printing office, has recently been put into service by Eastern...

rVE NTY-TREE summonses against H a lorry driver for failing to keep current records and working excessive hours—brought because...

DECAUSE some road fund licences cost the equivalent of about £1 per working day, the transport committee of the Liverpool...

A SUGGESTION that heavy goods PA lorries should be covered with bright iridescent tarpaulin was put forward fait week by an...

1AECHAN1ZED handling and disposal 1 V1 arc being employed in Scotland for a scheme involving the collection, compression and...

1STINGUISHED panel of transirt experts made brief Speeches and ed questions last week at a conon transport for export, one of a...

S PEAKING at the winding up conference at the Export Services Exhibition at Olympia last week, Mr. Douglas Jay. president of...

U UNDER Article 1.0 of the TIR ConyenLf don, the various national Customs authorities are empowered to fix a time limit and an...

that. compared with 1956. the total tonnage carried by German hauliers in the Federal Republic has increased hv 58 per cent,...

to encourage drivers to use dipped headlights when moving on the roads after dark. The new campaign will start on October 25....

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT T HE Government escaped through lack of time what would certainly have been a critical—and...

-C -1 A NEW range of lire appliances, based on AEC chassis, has been announced by Merryweather and Sons Ltd., Greenwich, South...

details are given of the trading figures for Harold Wood and Sons Ltd., the road tanker business now being acquired by THC. In...

'THE number of goods vehicles registered during August totalled 16,459, compared with a figure of 15,918 in the same period of...

London rt, replacing Mr. Cedric E. who retired on September 30. Ilenfant, who is 57. first joined Transport in 1929 and after...

gave a weekly : of 8,769 vehicles, only marginally the peak years of 1960 and 1961. formation is contained in The Industry of...

tgreement has been signed between otorimport of Poland and the d Motor Corporation covering the teture of Leyland diesel...

From Our Industrial Correspondent D ELEGATES representing more than 180,000 provincial busmen, both company and municipal,...

A WHOLE series of ambitious " Sleepcoach" tours has been planned by a London tour operator, employing German-built coaches...

net surplus of £87,310 for the year ended March 31 last was down on the previous year (£89,431), although passenger revenue...

ingtons To Stop Coach rction BY F. K. MOSES Y a week after drawing attention the fact that the production of duty bus and...

T HE Mid-Southern Tipping Group's support of 29 operators, who sought to carry excavated road-building materials within 150...

A Napplication by T. Mileham and Sons Ltd., of Ilford, to add 15 artics to a 34-vehicle A licence and to move base some 16...

Transport Ltd., of Liverpool, for a 51-vehicle B licence, was granted by the North Western Licensing Authority in Liverpool on...

I E application of Davis Bros. ( - Haulage) Ltd. to add 10 artics (tanker or flat) to their A licence to carry bulk liquid and...

R IVALRY between Spalding hauliers I N. for profitable flower traffics was referred to by Mr. J. Langham, at the Transport...

ALUSE of assurances given by .tnesses supporting a take-over of s in the name of J. E. Baker r) and Barons and Carpenter Ltd....

Aberdeen last week, Mr. L. A. 'ells, the Scottish deputy Licensing city, granted yet another A licence the gap created by the...

week. Appeals listed for hearing are as follows:— Tuesday, October 12: Parkinsons Removals (Accrington) Ltd. against a decision...

A SPOKESMAN for Somerset County Council gave a fitm denial to the Western Traffic Commissioners at Taunton last Friday . that...

They told the chairman, Mr. J. R. C. Samuel-Gibbon, that the Ministry of Transport had recognized the necessity for road works...

ID EAD1NG Corporation Transport I would have a total deficit of £62,000 at the end of the current financial year, rocketing to...

T Leeds last week a grant of four ri tippers of 201 tons was made to Peter Devine Plant Hire Ltd., Ossett, with conditions of...

A T an inquiry last Friday under Section 178 of the Road Traffic Act, 350 C-licensed ice-cream vans out of a total national...

A PLEA for cheap fares to be granted to old-age pensioners on buses in north Staffordshire has been turned down by the...

By R. O. CATER T HE Ford Transit range of vehicles announced today (see page 72) is going to be well received. This was the...

THE London distributor of Morris 1 Commercial vehicles, Stewart and Ardern. last week took a party of people in a charter...

4-3 . A MERGER has been announced between the automotive division of Lloyds Packing Warehouses (Holdings) Ltd., who market...

DRICES have been announced for the Ford Transit range of vans described on pages 72-78 of this issue. In standard form and...

E considerable amount of research tnd development work carried out rake-lining materials was illustrated ic Mintex division of...

1E 't ransport Holding Company and .eyland Motor Corporation Ltd, have iunced that the exchange of shares in tin of their...

nRDERS recently announced by AEC Ltd. include 30 Mandator tractive units for the W. Russell group of companies and 12 similar...

and Publications Airlines on Artics TH REE larger Skyhooks for use as airlines on articulated vehicles have been added to the...

Grinding Equipment-Part 5 IE final look at precision grinding nactices must include a few words he bench or portable grinding...

By A. J. P. Wilding AM1 Mech E, MIRTE I N the past. British vehicle makers have been hampered In their efforts to export to...

'4K-UP OF HOVERCRAFT WITH EXISTING )ACH SERVICES CAN BOOST TRAFFIC By E. JAMES MILLEN NAANY people have heard of hover IVI...

By the Haw:: e Horses For the second week running shire Whitbread horses—but this time they are under [Janet of a Dennis Pax...

rifle Motor Services : a health cure troducing stop treatment T HE pattern for the future in passenger transport may have been...

W HERE the politicians have left off the experts are moving in. Little was said about transport at the Liberal and Labour Party...

ow to deal with 7enditure not directly urred by the operation speci c vehicles T HE cost of operating a commercial vehicle can...

A Midlands contractor states that he normally provides a small commercial vehicle for the use of his drivers. One such driver...

TRADING conditions for WADHAM (HOLDINGS) 1 during the January-April period this year were buoyant. Indeed the directors report...

I of the Road ? 4 sure that many p.s.v. enthusiasts will be sorry to see Lt production is to cease on the AEC Renown. This er...

By George Wilmot Lecturer in Transport Studies, University of London REGIONAL STUDIES—The North Wales Coalfield IS there any...