U NLIKELY as it may be for the lamb to walk with the wolf, could it be conceivable that road transport may one day find itself...

BY IAIN SHERRIFF HE days of the London pirates I. are numbered. We intend to clean up the tipping business in this area by...

By Our Political Correspondent C ONTINUED control of the road haulage system and a 10-point new deal• for the bus industry were...

THE HOME market took 4,207 Bedford trucks, vans and coach chassis last month. Mr. David Hegland, Vauxhall's chairman and...

UK US battery service proves container benefits C ONSIDERABLE savings in freight charges, a reduction in pilfering and labour...

nETAILS of a full range of conversion kits for goods vehicle braking systems have been issued by Clayton Dewandre Co. Ltd. The...

M RS. BARBARA CASTLE, Minister of Transport, on Wednesday met leaders of the RHA at their request to explain the Government's...

M RS. Barbara Castle, Minister of Transport, has taken a further step towards United Kingdom ratification of the European...

T RHA international group is conside working agreement and code of conduct formed to prepare a draft. The sub-committee has...

rr HE British Transport Docks Board is to build a £2.5m. 1,000 ft. container berth at Southampton, and a deep-water berth...

BY OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT THERE were two new developments this week on the question of Ministry of Transport intentions...

• The number of carriers' licences renewed in 1966-63,918—was the lowest in the last five years, said Mr. Stephen Swingler,...

THE ROAD Haulage Association's ideas about illuminated street name plates will be considered by the inter-departmental working...

- nUE to an omission in Section 176 of the Road Traffic Act 1960, an appeal by John Hodgson (Haulage) Ltd. was dismissed by...

company, said to have spent over £8,000 within the last two years on servicing its fleet of 16 vehicles, is to have two of its...

tankers for 123 GV9s T 1E Metropolitan LA, Mr. D. I. R. Muir, has decided to suspend 12 Regent Oil Co. Ltd. tankers—rigids or...

THE Edinburgh firm of James Fleming and Co. Ltd., who among other things supply provisions to prisons in the Edinburgh area...

A FORECAST that the signing of the bilaterals between Britain and foreign countries would make Continental transport far more...

AS a cover for the long hours worked by its drivers, a Sunderland haulage firm used "phantom drivers" it was alleged at a...

TO HELP goods vehicle operators cope with the complex programme of road transport legislation which is to take effect during...

AFTER TWO joint sittings of the Metropolitan and South Eastern Traffic Commissioners (COMMERCIAL MOTOR December 30 and January...

P economic squeeze has been effective in many places for good or bad, but never in their wildest dreams r l d our politicians...

THE Road Transport Industry Training Board this week approved the appointment of T. E. Tindall as its director general. Mr....

the south-east area of the Midland Red. He was previously with the Yorkshire Woollen District Transport Co. Ltd. London...

T O what extent can or should Traffic Commissioners force a corporation to make up deficits in its passenger transport...

A MECHANICAL ventilation system em ploying Brooks input units and HiVolume extract units has been installed at the Laird Street...

A PLAN to extend concessionary fares on public transport to people who are disabled or infirm and cannot work is to be...

FOR the first time, a major wage agreement between management and unions in Northern Ireland has been signed before the...

D ETAILS of a new completely automatic system which, it is claimed, could help solve the city's transport problem, have been...

THE FIRST Post Office mini-bus in Britain will run experimentally from Llangurig to Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire, starting at...

A UNANIMOUS go-ahead for an increase in city bus fares has been given by Belfast City Council. Controversy raged at two...

A two-mile length of "expressway" track has been operating at South Park, Pittsburg, for the past two years, during which the...

T HE Leyland deal to provide a bus factory for Russia was elevated to top international status during Soviet Premier Alexei...

A "RETURN to work call" was made this week by the TGWU to 365 drivers and conductors of the Gateshead and District Omnibus Co....

pARES on Newcastle upon Tyne Corporation buses must go up to enable the city to meet fleet renewal charges for next year,...

AD APTED for handling by the Rolonof system, a compacting refuse container has been introduced by Sheppard Fabrications Ltd.,...

O F aluminium construction and having capacities of 465 Cu. ft. and 560 Cu. ft., two Luton van bodies have been introduced by...

A T the Commercial Motor Show in September last year Leyland Motors Ltd. made semiautomatic trucks a main theme of its display...

W ITH the haulage industry now virtually married to articulation, fairly steady progress is being made towards the...

r'r HE outstanding feature of a new Aero style electrostatic powder spray equipment, a patented Powderstat hopper, meters the...

D ESIGNED for use in factories, warehouses, yards and stores, a 3,000 lb. battery-electric dump truck has been introduced by...

O F Japanese make, the Van Norman pool. K oyo model 204 brake drum lathe, suitable for machining brake drums and disc pads, has...

W TH the driver in mind, Hands has introduced a spare wheel carrier so easy to operate that removing the spare wheel is now...

N OW available in single phase is the Safelink R2 series electric chain hoist, for loads of 2.5 cwt. and 5 cwt. Special design...

P ROTECTING edges of materials in transit is the purpose of a small plastic edge, marketed by Dines Plastics. They sit firmly...

BY A. J. P. WILDING, AMIMechE, MIRTE rr HE vast majority of tipping vehicles in use in this country are in the 7to 8-ton...

°W E cannot travel very far in the southern half of the country ithout seeing one of the familiar red vehicles of the Hall and...

And you benefit. With York-24 tons gross on 3 axles means 17 tons payload. The new transport laws contained a big surprise: an...

Friday morning a tipper pirate telephoned COMMERCIAL MOTOR. asked for the opportunity to reply to the attack made on pirates by...

H ISTORIES of transport tend to open with a brief description of what purport to be the early beginnings of the industry with...

A MONG the several functions of an industrial training board as laid down in the Industrial Training Act 1964 is that it "shall...

an 18-ton load artic compare and what increased mileage would have to be run by the larger vehicle before its operating costs...

A As the name implies, the use to which a limited trade licence can be put is severely restricted as is laid down in Regulation...

present driving licence permits me to drive vehicles with an unladen weight of only 3 tons or less. Is there any way in which I...

in the air pressure system of an Austin FJ 17-ton gross automaticcoupling tractive unit? A The purpose of this valve is to...

A licence and is there much chance of the LA not transferring it to my name? A We must first make it quite clear that you...

following several requests from existing customers to take on household removal! would like your advice on the possibility of...

to put his name on the vehicle along with that of the contractor concerned? A From the legal aspect there is neither...

M UCH of the legislation relating to passenger transport by road in Great Britain has been consolidated into Part III of the...

FrHE pre-tax profits of BET Omnibus Services (British Electric Traction controls the company) are expected to be "marginally...