There has never really been any excuse for a road transport operator being ignorant of the cost of running his vehicles and his...

• A warning was given to two directors of two haulage companies involved in separate traffic court cases at Newcastle upon...

Worst spares shortage since the war, states annual report • The State-owned National Bus Company, largest single bus...

• The 1970 edition of Commercial Motor Tables of Operating Costs to be published next week represents an entirely new...

• The Road Haulage Wages Council has now issued its detailed proposals for the rises in minimum wage rates for haulage...

• Action should be taken to introduce an official appeals procedure against the issue of wrongly based GV9s, the Freight...

• A general review of vehicle lighting regulations has been called for by the technical committee of the Freight Transport...

• Pickfords Ltd has sold its depot at High Street, Stratford, London E15, by auction through Chamberlain and Willows for...

• Walsall councillors are concerned at heavy lorries driving through the town centre to M6, when they could take the ring...

On test at the MIRA proving ground, this new 16-ton-gcw single-axle semi-trailer is designed by Pitt Trailers Ltd to enable...

• A transport costing service is to be introduced by the Freight Transport Association. It will be run by an experienced...

• The motor transport training college and workshops of the Post Office at Yeading, Middlesex, was open to the public on...

• At a gathering in Shrewsbury yesterday, Rolls-Royce announced the Mark II version of the Eagle diesel engine which is the...

LDOV PORTSMOUTH at P ompey • Twenty-six Shell-Mex and BP drivers are now eligible to compete at the LDoY national finals at...

• When Mr K. C. Turner. the Road Transport Industry Board chairman, opened the East and South London Group Training...

• Brilliant driving in the run-off gave R. L. V. Smith a well-deserved success in the Driver of the Year competition run by...

• Brent Group drivers are being trained to standards higher than those laid down for the hgv licence, said Mr John...

• Mr Harry Kinsey, managing director of National Carriers Ltd, opening the company's new training centre at Peterborough on...

• Manchester Transport Training Group reveals in its first annual report that it is being inundated with applications for...

• Held at the permanent National Agricultural Centre. Stoneleigh, the Royal Show closes today. While bulk vehicles...

• Dictation by the National Bus Company to its subsidiaries, laying down what profit each company should make, was strongly...

• Midland Red has been granted an application to increase fares by 25 per cent by the East and West Midland. Traffic...

• George Ewer and Co Ltd group turnover for the year ended January 3 1970 amounted to £4,049,036—an increase over the...

• The claim for a 25 per cent increase in the basic rates paid to municipal busmen was due to be discussed yesterday between...

More extracts from the new 1970 tables of Operating Costs will be published in CM on July 17—this time dealing with coach...

• A big drive to increase its share of - the highly lucrative private hire market is being made by the SELNEC (South East...

• The civil riots of last August, together with an unforeseen delay in the introduction of its new one-man bus /token fare...

• The reliability of single-deck standee buses operating in London Transport's first flat-fare suburban or "satellite" system...

• Sunderland transport committee is to seek permission from the Northern Traffic Commissioners for a Id increase on zonal bus...

K. S. r Robinson A. R. Marshall and Sons (Haulage) Ltd), Nottingham, has been elected chairman of the technical committee of...

We record with regret the deaths of Harry Atkinson, W. B. Christison, W. Stanley Greenwood and Charles Basil ("Poppa") Nixon....

• The directors of Atkinson Lorries (Holdings) Ltd have advised their shareholders that they are unanimous in the view that...

• Replying to an approach from the National Guild of Transport Managers, the new Minister of Transport, Mr John Peyton, has...

• In an attempt to keep in being the Charles Poulter Ltd haulage company which had its operator's licence refused by the...

• A Cardiff haulier who appeared before the South Wales LA last week to show cause why his 0 licence should not be revoked,...

• "That's fair enough," said an owner-driver as his 0 licence was suspended for three months by the South Wales LA. Mr Ronald...

• David Bush, of Hewitt Avenue, London N22. an ex-Metropolitan traffic area court clerk, was committed to the Central...

• A haulier who said at an Ipswich public inquiry that he was "prepared" to install a hoist was told by the Eastern Licensing...

by Ron Cater • After seven years' development work, the research laboratory of Mullard Ltd, electronics specialists, last...

• Automated stores accounting machinery was to be installed in the new spares headquarters of the Gilbraith Group at Botany...

• Production of Deansgate minicoaches has been transferred to a 22,000 sq ft 500 a year capacity plant at the Kirkby...

• Turnover of Fodens Ltd for the year ended April 4 1970 was up by more than £3m and profit before taxation increased by...

• A Self-Changing Gears Type 350 semi-automatic gearbox is a feature of a Ford R226 single-deck psv chassis equipped with a...

• Following delivery of the first of the new Duramin integral semi-trailer vans—known as Duravans—to Dor-to-Dor Carriers...

• Reorganization of the Guildford factory and the company structure of Dennis Bros Ltd under its new management is now almost...

• Bodies jig-built as sub-assemblies will form the backbone of a new series of chassisless semi-trailer vans introduced by...

by the Hawk • Shell, to be sure! With Portsmouth's round at the weekend, the last of the regional eliminators in the 1970...

Fred Hope • "Fearless" is the description which his friends have given Fred Hope and, in fact. in recent years it has almost...

I fully agree with Ralph Cropper's comments (CM June 19) that drivers are not all doing much the same job. Those who always...

On May 3 some of our members were travelling on the M1 towards Brighton for the HCVC Rally when, near St. Albans. the engine of...

In his article "Users' needs dictate choice of body materials" (CM April 10) Mr M. J. Lake is perhaps slightly less than fair...

Paul Brockington's report on the technical symposium of the Associated Engineering Group at Dunchurch Industrial Staff College...

WHEN dealing with work mounted in the vertical slide for a milling operation, I mentioned only the method of clamping by belts...

in decimal and sterling THE 1970 edition of the COMMERCIAL MOTOR Tables of Operating Costs will be published next week, and...

Administration, Institute of Road Transport Engineers and Institute of The Motor Industry. It also covers courses leading to...

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by Norman M. Douglas A monthly intelligence report on container topics Overcoming those snags THE ADVANTAGES of...

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To bury Caesar not to praise him by Janus S TRONG suspicions were felt from the first that the concept of quantity licensing...

matters by John Darker, AMBIIVI Plessey's advanced transport thinking IN last week's article, it seems, I was a little...

by Les Oldridge AIRTE, AMIMI The quarry vehicle regulations 1970 THESE regulations, which came into effect on April 29 1970,...

Exemptions and Concessions, would point out that this information is very misleading and would refer you to Section 96...

in conjunction with a Land-Rover on "limited" trade plates. Under the new trade licence, am I right in understanding that the...

regarding drivers' hours on F-licensed vehicles? Do vehicles licensed as such have to abide by the new driving hours, and have...

eering firm, starting at 8 am and finishing at 5.30 pm; most of my time is Spent driving on the site of work. Is this time...

by George Wilmot Senior Lecturer in Transport Studies, University of London. The Squint and the Sextet THE fashion of...

Theft by collusion by Inspector K. W. Norman, Crime Prevention Section, New Scotland Yard. • In a large company there is...

Reflector triangles for trailers which are designed to comply with the regulations which came into effect on July 1 are being...

The side brushes on the new AVVV Cadet light-vehicle drivethrough wash pivot on arms fixed to the framework instead of being...

Following six months of continuous testing, Erna Products has introduced the Industrial Scoura, a machine designed to remove...

A highly concentrated liquid industrial cleaner which is soluble in both water and conventional solvents has been developed by...

The various types of brake chambers made by Westinghouse are described in an updated technical leaflet published by the...

The latest in the range of temporary protective coatings for metal surfaces from Cee-Bee Chemical is CeeKote which unlike the...

A 75 cu ft per minute mobile compressor launched on the UK market by George Cohen is sufficiently light to be easily manoeuvred...

The extensive range of products marketed by Holts has been extended with Brush-up, an upholstery cleaner provided in an aerosol...

A simple and inexpensive handling aid that allows one man to handle such things as large boxes, crates and drums weigh ing up...

A series of lightweight centrifugal fans that are corrosion proof is now available from Lambert Brothers (Walsall). Of West...

Two more Electro-Magic pressure washers have been introduced into Britain by Ukotaco. The Model 615 Hot H igh Pressure Washer...

There are over 100 special town plans showing one-way traffic systems and parking zones in the RAC Guide and Handbook, the 1970...

An advisory leaflet published by the Timber Container Confederation CTIMCONl gives full dimensions and details of the metric...

Two data sheets published by Burmah-Castroi Industrial have as their subjects Lumor (K) fluorescent and Supramor Grade 4...

A small but powerful vacuum cleaner that works off a compressed air supply has been introduced by Vortair Engineering. The...

Where the power output of an engine has been stepped up from an original design formula— common nowadays—there can be...

A sulphuric-acid-resistant steel capable of being welded and fabricated has been developed at the metallurgical laboratories of...

New products from Ambersil are Ambersil 40 + and a nonsilicone splatter-release agent for use where welded parts are to be...

Following the recent introduction of its Thermo Recorder, the Transport Temperature Recorder division of Blick Time Recorders...

A relatively inexpensive noisemeasuring kit is now marketed by Cosmocord. The kit consists of the ACOS SLM3 sound level meter...

Ron Cater Judging by the comments ma,e to members of Commercial Motor staff, the Croydon fatal accident (CM June 26) involving...

A simple sliding clamp holds drums securely in place on a twowheel truck launched by A. P. Manufacturing. The Donald D07 can...

The American Air-O-Matic airpowered clutch servo is now being offered in the UK by Fl. F. Fendley of Harrogate. The servo...

Models with capacities from 22001b to 3300113 are included in the latest range of compact battery-operated rider-controlled...

The recently developed DixonBate Tuckaway Crane will be a boon in workshops where there is a space problem. When not in use the...

Two new anti-corrosive pigments which act as the sole corrosion inhibitors in a wide range of priming systems have been...

Chemitec, a new anti-corrosive metal treatment from Protective Chemicals and Plastics, is said to give protection against...

To overcome difficulties inherent in existing water-wash spray booths and to take full advantage of the properties of...

An economic means of removing oil, dirt and grease from vehic l e chassis has been developed by Cee-Bee Chemical Co. It is...