L ET battle commence. That would have been an appropriate comment last June when British Railways supplemented earlier evidence...

E draft code of practice for brake systems on commercial vehicles built to take advantage of the new weights is understood to...

T HE need for redoubled precautions against vehicle thefts is emphasized by figures supplied to the Road Haulage Association by...

From our Industrial Correspondent TH E first 15 liner-train services are expected to attract 2,750,000 tons of merchandise a...

COUR covered bays handling eight lorries simultaneously are built into the most modern cold store in Europe, which has just...

designed specially for the handling of roll-on/roll-off freight vehicles was opened yesterday in A.nhverp. Built for the...

LATEST SURVEY REPORT SHOWS VARIETY AND EXTENT OF ROAD FREIGHT From our Political Correspondent COAL is king of the transport...

fiEMBERS of the international group, al of the Road Haulage Association should not hire out to non-members of the Association...

A N interesting exhibit at the Royal Smithfield Show, Earls Court, London, is a Haflingermounted hydraulic lift (seen here)...

-DEFORF. a meeting of the national Li organizing committee of the Lorry Driver of the Year Competition in Coventry on Tuesday,...

(Right) Pictured this week at Baillieston, Glasgow, one of the new P. & S. Contracts fleet of MackilVorthern articulated...

MEETING HEARS ABOUT G.V.9s AND SPARES G IVE us a standard of efficiency that we can work to in our maintenance —and then we...

rt A NUMBER of C-licensed operators described the increasing difficulty of obtaining a good maintenance service from outside...

THERE was Government criticism last 1 week of traders who used their own vehicles or road hauliers to carry their goods for...

FROM OUR POLITIC AL CORRESPONDENT I N 1963, when motoring offences of all kinds rose by 6-5 per cent, and convictions topped...

G OVERNMENT proposals to levy tolls on part of the London-South Wales motorway (M4) have been presented to Parliament. The...

London next week. Appeals listed for hearing are as follows:— Monday, December 14: Arthur T. Booth (Manchester) Ltd. against a...

F OR not adhering to a statement of intention and substituting a vehicle without permission, the Metropolitan Licencing...

IN Manchester on Wednesday the North Western deputy Licensing Authority, Mr, A. H. Jollitfe, granted an application by...

and Sons Ltd., of Heckmondwike, for 35 vehicles for the carriage of tel oil, bitumen and petroleum products for ShellMex and...

A N appeal by Mr. George Blackett, a Forest Hall (Newcastle upon Tyne) building and demolition . contractor, against a decision...

A FTER a number of objections had been withdrawn, the East Midlands Traffic Commissioners at Nottingham last week granted a...

'THE managing director of Thomas 1 Motor Tours Ltd., of Newark, Notts, who applied to the East Midlands Traffic Commissioners...

QHEFFIELD UNITED TOURS LTD. were granted permission by the East Midlands Traffic Commissioners last week to pick up at...

W ITHIN 100 man-years or five to seven calendar years of computer development, equipment should be available for programming...

ONDON TRANSPORT proposes to J--4 charge a flat fare higher than the ordinary maximum fare for the same journey when the first...

Edinburgh Deficit: Edinburgh Corporation transport department had a deficit of £63,727 in the year ended May 28 last, although...

From our Industrial Correspondent L'MPLOYERS and union leaders of Britain's 70,000 municipal busmen were due at the Ministry of...

Pickfords Ltd. will be filled by Mr. E. Gordon Milne, at present north-eastern area heavy haulage manager. Mr. J. G. Arnold,...

We regret to record the deaths of Mr. H. Firth, Mr. W. McLaren and Mr. W. Smith. Mr. Firth, who was head and founder of...

T HE objectionable noise of a diesel engine for " diesel knock') is produced by the abrupt rise of cylinder pressure resulting...

T HE Hampshire firm of Charles Pitt (Barton Stacey) Ltd. has started tc produce semi-trailers using fabricated main beams. Each...

4200,000 OF GUY IN ONE WEEK: Guy Motors Ltd. received orders for goods chassis during the third week of November to a total...

New Address: From January I Metropolitan-Catnmell-Weymann Ltd. will conduct its business from Elmdon Works, Marston Green,...

the Cummins Vale 177 b.h.p. diesel engine will be produced in due course at the Chrysler-Cummins factory in Darlington, and...

Ltd. is a mobile load-. 4 ing platform which has a capacity of 15 cwt. The primary platform size is 7 ft. wide by 3 ft. deep...

Bedford TK lorries is now available from Vauxhall/Bedford dealers. This takes the form of a non-return valve inserted in the...

oil dispensing 1-1 equipment is the Cradle Pump. This can be fitted directly on top of a 40or 45-gal. barrel and will dispense...

VAILABLE now from Rubber Plastics Ltd. are Polyvon t i k ri . anti-rattle joints. These are designed to prevent sticking....

(Part No. 7161346) has now been designed for the Bedford VAL passenger chassis. The kit consists of an operating valve which is...

A MORE sensitive version of the Stayput hand comparator is now being produced by the Coventry Movement Co. Ltd. The new U.C.F....

now available from Trico-Folberth Ltd. It takes the form of a liquid containing a compound which reverses the chemical attack...

CEW general haulage vehicles com plete their life span having enjoyed clean water throughout. At dock or overhaul time, when...

UR prizewinner this week is a bus driver, Mr. L. F. Smith. of Dearham, nr. Maryport, Cumberland. His idea, he says, is very...

Have you an idea that is worth passing on to other readers? It must relate to maintenance practice. !Fa panel, on which...

By The Hawk VIEW Seen being loaded here is one of the dozens of lorries which played a part in one of Britain's biggest-ever...

hind Know. III T HE saying " Prevention is better than cure" is very often heard among maintenance engineers, whether they be...

Metropolitan operator constant delay and ation; drivers have beadept at "sitting it but drastic measures ecessary to produce...

Impressions gained during a short test run of an A.E.C. Mercury fitted with a Leyland Group Ergonomic cab BY R. D. CATER O N...

F ROM the outset the railways evidence to the Geddes Committee on the subject of track costs made the most satisfactory sense...

W RY comments by road transport operators may well have followed last week's announcement that yet another Government committee...

Tailboards are the sub lea of a recent inquiry. In particular the reader asks for the effect of recent amended regulations. In...

Spurling on Right Road D URING the three years previous to 1963-64 profits of SPURLING MOTOR BODIES fell from around £300,000...

Selwyn Miles Lid. Cap. £100. Objects: To carry on the business of haulage and transpott contrac tors, etc. Dirs.: S, Miles and...