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The Government's watered down Bullock Report in the guise of a White Paper on Industrial Democracy should be totally rejected...
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• STARR Roadways of Bilston, Staffs has become the fourth operator in the West Midlands to be blacked by Government departments...
IRISH vehicle assembler John market a Romanian rival to the The Aro, a fully-trimmed vehicle with Peugeot diesel and petrol...
7 .. NATIONAL Freight Corttion has told the Foster tmittee that it believes the ent 0-Licence system has ied low profitability,...
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A DISPUTE involving Ansells brewery draymen last weekend has so far cost the firm five million pints of undelivered beer. The...
A CALL for the establishment of a new breed of court specialising solely in traffic matters I come from Transport and General...
LOCAL Government Ombudsman Denis Harrison has accu! Salisbury District Council of maladministration by allowini haulier to set...
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During his visit to the CM Recovery Conference at Bordon this week, a new Holmes twin sonic beacon was removed from the roof of...
FORD Motor Company chairman and managing director Terence. Beckett becomes a Knight Bachelor in the Queen's Birthday Honours...
BRITISH Transport Minister William Rodgers has told the European Conference of Transport Ministers that he sees no merit in...
LANSPORT Action Scotland, which launched a report calling r upgrading of the A74 Carlisle-Hamilton road to motorway mdards...
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A COVENTRY operator succeeded in getting his Operator's Licence renewed last week — despite renewed objections, on planning...
FORD increased the cost of its commercial vehicles on June 1. Examples, excluding VAT, are given below with the old prices in...
A TRANSPORT and traffic study group has been established at the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology. The...
ffic growing RE has been an 8.86 per increase in commercial haulage traffic through n harbour over the first months of 1978....
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France-Spain link now complete THE FINAL 48km (30 mile) stretch of motorway linking the French towns of Narbonne and Perpignan...
clearing house SOUTHERN area Road Haulage Association members have set up a new co-operative comp to handle clearing house...
THE FREIGHT Transp Association has published new edition of its Drive Handbook for members. • Costing 75p, it details ru and...
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POLICE are making spot checks on lorry loads of timber in an effort to help contain the spread of Dutch elm disease, according...
Fife: Class A: C. Cunningham (South of Scotland Electricity Board); Class B: D. Anderson (Alpine Refrigerated Deliveries);...
TRANSPORT operators in Aberdeen were warned last week that the EEC drivers hours "honeymoon" period during which regulations...
LEYLAND Vehicles' managing director Des Pitcher will be one of the main speakers at an Institute of Mechanical Engineers'...
LE ADVISORY, Conciliation and Arbitration Service has m accused of being "not a third party but rather a fifth luinn". le...
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ENTHUSIASM and hard work by engineering staff at Eastern National Omnibuses' Southend and Hadleigh bus depot was rewarded when...
OLD AGE pensioners' f travel permits issued by Greater London Council bear the holder's photogr from October 1. London...
LEEDS University is holding its tenth annual seminar on Public Transport Operators research from July 5-7, 1978, J. K. Isaac of...
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A NEWSPAPER article written about pensioners' trips led to a Lancashire coach operator being fined for 10 offences of operating...
WALLACE Arnold's proposed London-Moscow "Euroways" service came another step closer this week when a contingent of 18 Russians,...
VON'S experimental red hire-car service which operated in the Taw Valley a since April 24 was exded last week to cover the...
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Stopping violence LONDON Transport Chairman Ralph Bennett has had talks with Home Secretary Merlyn Rees on the problems of...
The "Windsor Cordon" places an unladen weight limit of five tons on commercial vehicles using all roads to London except the...
SCHOOLS in north-east Scotland are having difficulty hiri buses for day trips because of the shortage of mechanics Grampian...
COACH parking places in London are the subject of a map just produced by the Greater London Council. The map can be obtained...
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IIMINISHING world fuel asources pose the greatest . ingle threat to civilisation in he history of man, said Raymond Baxter when...
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egal, financial and, most nportant of all, practical exerts were all attracted to 'Ars Second Recovery Conerence which was held...
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BRITAIN is saturated with big breakdown vehicles being badly utilised, Wreckers International managing director William C....
SOLICITOR Jonathon Lawto attempted to define a recover vehicle for delegates to the cor ference. He said that the Vehicles (E)...
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AVRO chairman Terry Crum pton told Operators of his quest to establish a scale of fair rates for the recovery industry and he...
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THE FUTURE of the recovery industry must be based on the present state of a company, said Association of Vehicle Recovery...
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HE MEN who "work nine iches from death" on mitain's motorways — the trecker operators — hwashed out their views at 'ommercial...
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plates, said that this would eliminate those on the fringe of the law. An AVRO council member said that introducing licensing...
RECOVERY MEN need bei ter information before the go out to a job, Dougi Twyford, of Twyford Cow mercial, told the recover...
THE TROUBLE with the recovery business in Britain is that people are in it for love, not money, W. C. Jackson, who gave a paper...
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IT was appropriate that a combined civilian/Army team won the final of the CM Recovery Competition. The final, involving a...
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r f om r ....i stput INHAT is the future of the Freightliner system on the European mainland? Has it really got one? These are...
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WHEN Alec Woodford started the Car Recovery Service 17 years ago, he was something of a pioneer. Until then the only sort of...
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IT'S 3 o'clock in the morning when the phone rings. "Hallo, boss, the motor has 'broken down. I'm miles from anywhere and...
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A pulsating seat-cushion device designed for lorry drivers has been flight tested by United States Air Force and Navy pilots....
From the Mount Cook Group in New Zealand I learn that the Denning Company of Brisbane, a member of the Leyland Australian...
London Zoo is starting its own open-top bus service on Monday between Regent's Park and Baker Street Underground station, The...
The Birmingham branch of Pickfords Heavy Haulage was called in to carry an unusual load the other day. The job was to move an...
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Design Council could have done when looking at 23-year-old Mr Mousley's "Jumbo Legs", and expressing surprise that no one had...
In reading a report (CM, May 19) on the successful applicants for the Design Council British Motor Industry Awards, I was...
Every week we read of some company in front of the LA for some reason or another. In some cases the matter is not too serious...
We found the comparison spares chart of various leading manufacturers (CM, May 26) very informative and enlightening. It would...
Motor Industry Award for its retractable legs. I note that Raymond Baxter said he was surprised that no one had thought of the...
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GEAR wheels employed in manual change motor vehicle gearboxes are either spur gears where the teeth are straight, i.e. cut...
Figure ti - liOws the layout of this type of box. The drive from the clutch is taken by the clutch shaft to the small constant...
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ine common sense ;ECTION 22 of the Road Traffic Act 1972 creates the offence f failing to comply with the indication given by...