Ayrshire Scheme Has Lift-off

THE 68 canny hauliers and bus operators who form the Ayrshire Road Transport Group Training Association have in ten years amassed enough money to pay for a new £150,000 heavy......

Transport In Their Veins

NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD Andrew Hayward is a great credit to his dad. He is Hotpoint's transport controller and must be one of the youngest holders of the Certificate of Professional......

Boys In Blue Arrest Death

INSPECTOR Stanley Oldfield, of Greater Manchester police traffic department, has several cogent answers for aggrieved traffic offenders who demand: "Why aren't you out catching......

Flutterings At Man-vw

NOT CONTENT with promoting speedway and cycle races, MAN-VW Truck and Bus Ltd is now backing the horses. It is supporting six evening flatracing meetings at Windsor (two),......

How To Make A Cool Hundred

THIS MONTH the DFD: Harwich/Esbjerg ferry rout! celebrates its centenary. In it first month of operation then were six sailings and carg( imported into England consiste( of 1208......

1948 Varbfewle

0 l' i fit s INISH SEAWAYS In a pictorial centenary book let one of the captions says tha the ss Kasan, as far back a: 1889, was equipped with cargc refrigeration machinery. Coo......

Jack Gets Hoof Treatment

I WOULD not have thought i1 possible to sketch even a brie1 history of the war on crime in road transport without referring to Jack Brown, chairman of the Road Haulage......