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Commons gets tough: no 11-tonne axles here
Page 22 from 24th November 1972All-party backing for Bill to restrict lorries from our political correspondent • MPs of all parties, proand anti-Common Market, are joining......
Lorries Bill advisory council dropped
Page 17 from 23rd February 1973• Plans to set up an advisory council to formulate proposals for the regulation of heavy lorries in urban areas under the Heavy Commercial Vehicles......
Curbing the lorry can jeopardize towns
Page 22 from 24th November 1972FTA director's counter-blow to MPs • A counter-blow to the "Dykes Bill" was delivered by Mr Hugh Featherstone, director of the Freight Transport......
GLC's lorry policy attacked
Page 23 from 10th May 1974THE Greater London Council was attacked in the Commons last week for not using its powers to control the movement of lorries through the capital.......
FTA president sees hope in lorry Bill
Page 24 from 16th March 1973• The first glimmer of hope that pressure from the Freight Transport Association against the lorry control Bill of Mr Hugh Dykes was having some......
FTA accepts
Page 22 from 6th April 19736 sensible restraints' • It was the job of the Freight Transport Association to assess what the effects of a prospective law could be, not what......
3,629 lorries banned
Page 37 from 6th February 1976THE NUMBER of lorries warranting prohibition notices because of defective brakes points to the need for continued vigilance by owners, drivers and......
THE economic crisis could not be used as an excuse
Page 21 from 13th August 1976for not bringing in the controls under the Heavy Commercial Vehicles Act, 1973, declared Mr Hugh Dykes (Tory, Harrow East) in the Commons last......
Dykes Bill becomes an Act
Page 45 from 27th July 1973MORE POWERS TO CURB LORRIES • Mr Hugh Dykes, the Conservative MP for Harrow Central, has joined that ex clusive band ofMPs who have successfully......
WESTM NSTIM HAUL
Page 7 from 2nd June 1978HAD nobody spotted that written answer? Or was it that MPs had just not realised its import? After all, though EEC Regulation No. 1463/70 may be......