As in nature so in business, species which cannot adapt go to the wall. The fact that road transport's undoubted flexibility...

BUT MINISTER POSTPONES NOISE REGULATIONS • All diesel-engined vehicles first used on or after April 1 next year, and not...

• Mr John Peyton, Minister for Transport Industries, told the Commons on Wednesday that enforcement officers of the DoE would...

• The Department of the Environment will shortly be inviting British hauliers to apply for the "go-anywhere" Common Market...

National Freight Corporation trading results improve by £7m — but still no overall profit. CBI restraint cost £500,000 in 1971...

• A team of GLC planners left London on Sunday to study how some of Europe's principal cities have turned busy streets into...

are cautious about the proposals because they are reluctant to yield the control over international road transport access which...

• The Minister for Transport Industries, Mr John Peyton, will seek backing for a resolution supporting the principle of common...

• The DoE this week circulated proposals to amend the Goods Vehicles (Plating and Testing) Regulations 1971 which will have the...

• There are no EEC regulations concerning the prohibition of vehicles over a certain age, and none is contemplated, said Mr...

• "To start thinking about preparations for VAT now is none too soon" was the significant message passed to transport operators...

• The lorries of hundreds of transport companies had been "blacked" at docks at Merseyside and Hull, but only three had brought...

• According to the latest annual report of the Institute of Weights and Measures Administration, one of the main factors in the...

• Glasgow Corporation is planning a commercial lorry park in the Mount Vernon area. east of the city, with an adjoining hostel...

• Called before the South Wales LA in Cardiff last week. Glynvale Roadways Ltd. of Brooklyn Garage, Hirwaun, Glam, was required...

• Mr J. Law, appearing for Wesco Services Ltd, at Glasgow last week, during a Section 69 hearing criticized the multiplicity of...

• A firm applying to increase its 0 licence from nine to 17 was allowed to increase to only 12 by South Eastern LA at Maidstone...

• Gomms Transport Ltd of Cardiff, taken over by the Ralph Hilton Transport Group in January, had its margin of 42 vehicles...

• Although Christian Salveson Transport Ltd, Edinburgh, owned the vehicles concerned, the company held the 0 licence...

• Despite having received two immediate GV9 prohibitions on the same vehicle, Epping UDC was on Wednesday granted a two-vehicle...

• A haulage firm parked its lorries and carried out repairs in a public car park, a council complained to the South Eastern...

• Rising fares and falling mileage, increasing psv licence suspensions and worsening maintenance, decreasing working hours for...

• Tomintoul, the highest village in the Highlands, is only 64 miles from Aberdeen, but the 500 people in the area can get to...

• The future role of bus operators under the provisions of the Local Government Bill, due to come into effect in April 1974, is...

• Dissatisfaction with the operation of the current standard bus grant scheme has been expressed by the Passenger Vehicle...

• A monthly or annual season ticket covering travel on any of its red bus routes is being introduced by London Transport on...

• Teesside Corporation's bus services produced a trading surplus for the financial year just ended of £251,000 compared with...

By the Technical Editor • The revised axle weights and spacing regulations for goods vehicles, which manufacturers and...

• Several new safety features for all Transit models are included in a list of specification changes for the range announced by...

• All sectors of the transport industry are represented in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. Montague Prichard, chairman of...

John A. Halstead, who joined William Nuttall Transport Ltd as group engineer in October 1971 after 71 years with Fodens Ltd....

DESPITE plans to shed the trolleybus in Genoa, Rome and Trieste, Italy remains its stronghold. Environmental awareness on the...

view by the Hawk • Police chase Four lorry drivers led the Aberdeen police a merry dance last weekend. It happened at the...

A YEAR OF MARKED PROGRESS Results of the Year 1971 In its third Annual Report (just published) the NFC records a year of...

STOP! — THIS CONCERNS YOU! A dramatic introduction, perhaps, but certainly an appropriate one, to the first of two papers...

THE present difficulties affecting the reliability and maintenance of the modern bus began when engines which worked very well...

David Deacon • One man who played a prominent role in Harrogate this week, when he presided over the annual conference of the...

by Paul Brockington, hillMech E Part 1 Many engines are overcooled for a major part of their lives. Engine makers are faced...

by Handyman Auto-electrics for the mechanic (23) IT IS ESSENTIAL to understand the reasons for ignition failure. Damp and...

The key to low value load safety by Insp Roger Sprosen, Crime Prevention Section, New Scotland Yard, • It is clear that some...

from a special correspondent AFTER YEARS of neglect, a massive effort is now being mounted in the United States towards a...

Minibuses on London Transport's night services would not have the advantages that your columnist (The Hawk, Bird's eye view, CM...

Leslie Huckfield, the MP for Nuneaton, never seems to miss an opportunity of stating that he was once a lorry driver....

Not too much should be made of the difference of opinion which David Lowe (CM May 19) has noticed between the Road Haulage...

May I as an operator of some vehicles make comment regarding the document "Training for the future"? First, I would suggest...

Having read your report of Mr Flight's attack on the RTITB at the Coach Operators' Conference in Brighton (CM April 28), I feel...

Uneasy bedfellows TO JUDGE from his reiteration of the theme Mr Leslie Huckfield, Labour MP for Nuneaton, must really believe...

Dockers against hauliers • Labour unrest at the docks is at the boil and this•time the main target of the dockers' attack is...

6 acre site in North London A RECENT OBSERVATION BY THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COUNCIL OF THE INSTITUTE OF ROAD TRANSPORT ENGINEERS...

Personal service is the backbone of Godfrey Davis Truck Rental, and has been a major feature in nationwide growth. Truck Depots...

Fast, efficient communications is a key factor at the new truck service centre just opened by Godfrey Davis (Wembley) Limited....

of depreciation received detailed attention. Your writer on March 31 stated that he preferred to calculate depreciation on a...

be realigned following a minor accident and I am not sati sfied that the job was done properly. When cornering, the tyres tend...

diste4dtide powder in the lubricating oil of the engines of my fleet of light vans. The majority of vehicles are powered by...

matters by John Darker, AMBIM Removers face the future AT BRAINS TRUST sessions at the recent conference of the British...

by Les Oldridge, AMIRTE, MIMI The Construction and Use Regulations (22) THE FIFTH, and final, part of the C and U Regulations...

learning by David Lowe MInstTA AMBIM Training police patrols HOW COMPETENT do you believe police traffic patrol officers are...

lupert Ledger has designed a ester to diagnose ignition and lectrical faults without resort to ials and circuit diagrams, etc....

k portable transformer which educes 210-250 mains voltage own to 12V ac is now being ianufactu red by Wipac. Called the...

. low-pressure screw displacelent pump for use at oil and etrol distribution depots is now vailable from Stothert and Pitt. is...

Compression fittings from _in. to which are suitable for nVon, Bundy or steel tube are now being marketed by Intertruck....

A one-piece T-chassis designed for use by manufacturers of mobile industrial plant has been designed by Flubery Owen. The...

A hand tool — the Indestro CF-71 — for setting spark plug gap accurately without having to resort to tapping the electrodes is...

Fully automatic correct-rate charging is one of the claims made for the Westinghouse Westronic charge controller. Other main...

By having a change-over spindle the Super Stork LAR23 from Marron Machines can be converted from a powerful sander using the...

A portable charging set which can start a large engine with a - flat battery within minutes, boost the battery while starting a...

Spray Finishing Systems hal, introduced to their range of SF industrial finishing equipment vertical reciprocator for auti...

The Hartridge Mk.3 Smokeme1 is designed to meet at country's testing standard including the latest EE anti-pollution...

pedestrian-controlled battery actric fork-lift truck which has capacity of 25cwt at 20in, ntres, or 2500Ib at 24in. ntres, and...

A .M./ UHF band radio-telephone weighing only 570 grammes has been introduced by Burndept Electronics. The unit consists of a...

A method of assembling spray/oven units at a repairer's premises has been evolved by Spraybake. All the panels and components...

by Trevor Lon gcroft 3hting an overturned tanker ided with an inflammable uid or dangerous chemicals 1 be a dangerous process,...

The Jetstreame two-wheeled mobile vehicle cleaner has a rate of flow of either hot or cold water of 2,6 gal /min at 1000 psi....

A low-cost method for moving ISO containers up to 40ft long with up to 10 tons gross weight, has been developed by Flexello...

A system which will detect variations of as little as twothousandths of an inch of the radius of a 40in, truck tyre hat been...

The Jost Twistlock (CM May 26 is made by Jost (Great Britain Ltd, Acre Street, Heywood Lancs.

The cable drum trailer under th above heading (CM April 10) i fitted with hydraulic lifting arm manufactured by Associate...

Smiths' psv saloon heater, th 2400, has been developed t give maximum heating capacil with simplified installation an ease of...