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11th May 1962
11th May 1962
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Tyre Reminder

F EW items of equipment are so expensive to replace as tyres, yet few are so often abused. A lorry driver who is completely •...

New Thinking Needed

T HE steadily increasing use of private transport and the advent of television have had a considerable impact on bus services...

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Personality of the Week

Riau mes Ellery T HE boy from Truro School looked out upon th beauty of the Cornish scene and decided he must nc be...

Bird's Eye View By The Hawk tat the B.M.A. Say

Pipeline Problems WHILST the Parliamentary processes of this country duly IV ponder, di g est and reword the Pipelines Bill,...

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Municipal Bus Pay Offer Rejected

From our Industrial Correspondent B uspay talks on behalf of 70,000 men and women employed in municipal undertakings in the...

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A British Standard for Diesels

L T the instigation of the National Road Transport Federation the itish Standards Institution is to prepare Standard for...

Watson-Russell Transport Deal

HE heavy transport contracting part of their business has been sold by • and J. R. Watson, Ltd., civil engineer contractors of...

R.H.A. Top Men To Be Honoured

DR1NCIPAL guest at the annual luncheon of the Road Haulage Association on May 16 will be the Minister of Transport, Mr. Ernest...

Hustle for Transport Bill

T HE Government intend to hustle the whole of the Committee Stage of the Transport Bill through the Lords well before ....

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Men in the News

Following the retirement of Mr. D. Harrison, B.M.C,'s director of home sales, the following appointments have been made: Mr. T....

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Extendible Semi-trailers Mr. Hanlon Accepts Opinion

EXTENDIBLE semi-trailers can he operated within the law, the Northern . Area Licensing Authority, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, was told...

Strong Objections to Portable Tanker Bid

A TTRACTIVE rates had been offered r — k by Sutton and Son (St. Helens), Ltd., tated Mr. R. Wakefield. assistant trans3ort...

Transport Tribunal in Scotland

T WO appeals were rejected and one allowed in part , by the Transport Tribunal in Edinburgh on Tuesday. When Eddie and Eyre...

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Cardiff Trolleyhead " Development

A NEW lightweight trolley-head has been developed by Mr. F. J. Cunuder, deputy general manager and engineer of Cardiff...

Five-vehicle B-to-A Switch Granted

S EVERAL nationally known manufacturing companies supported an application made to the Western Licensing Authority at Bristol...

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Iuddersfield Trolleys To Go?

RAKING at a Huddersfield Town Council meeting last week, Alderman A. Bennie Gray, chairman of the enger Transport Committee,...

Ticket Machine Records Statistics in Detail

CONDUCTOR'S ticket issuing machine that automatically provides ■ rdings for highly detailed statistics been introduced by...

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Kenex Return to the 25-seater Market

'THE name Kenex has for some years I been associated with the smallest type of bus, seating about 12 passengers and converted...

Marshall Single-decker for B.E.T.

O RDERS for 129 single-deck t bodies have been received Marshall Motor Bodies, Ltd., from B.E.T. Federation, Ltd., acting on...

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Alleged Union Pressure for Free Travel

LEGATIONS were made before the i'outh Eastern Traffic Commisrs at Maidstone last week that the in the Bowater Packaging Company...

"Keep Refrigeration Records"

E VERY distributor should be equipped with an instant recording thermometer to ensure that product temperatures of goods...

Micrograms

Profit Up: After provision for taxation, Clayton Dewandre Holdings, Ltd., report a net group profit for 1961 of £369,560. The...

Conflicting Views 0 I] Shortage n oNFL ICTING evidence over the

‘.--0 question of a shortage of haulage vehicles was presented to the Northern Deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. G. W. Duncan, at...

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Girling Brake Range Betng Redesigned

n UR.ING the course of the next few months ranch of the current range of commercial-vehicle brakes being produced by Girling,...

New Cardiff Depot Opened

r - I N Wednesday, Sir William Black, chairman of A.E.C., Ltd., officially opened the new depot of C.V. (Sales and Repairs),...

New Pointer Depot

THE Pointer Group of Norwich I opened a new depot at Histon, Cambridge. They have taken ove former National Benzole site toge...

Orders and Deliverie

INDIA'S FIRST: The first Leyland At ,tean rear-engined double-decker buses reach India have now gone into operat The Bombay...

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rhe Week in Parliament•

"Heavy" Overtakers Attacked FROM OUR PARLIAMENTARY CORRESPONDENT FIRIVERS of heavy commercial vehicles who tried to pass...

Lords Express Concern About Pipelines

CONCERN about what might happen if pipelines were constructed and operated by "general transport operators" was expressed in...

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SSENGER WANT?

O PERATING a bus service is, to some extent, like selling any other commodity. It is a matter of offering something to a...

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In Search of

Smokeless Power : Non-skid Brakin, )sign Reliability C HALLENGING Dr. F. Pischinger's views on diesel engine combustion, Mr....

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Cut-throat Competition?

A S a regular reader of yours, I would like to hear from other readers how they think operators can hope to survive in face of...

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STATUS INQUIRY

COMMENTARY by JANUS F i l OINTS of comparison are not difficult to find between the road haulage industry and the institution...

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Two Moons and a Marshi

A.E.C. Marshal 6 x 2 tested at 20 tons gross and shown to have outstanding braking characteristics, commendable fuel economy...

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Still More Progress in Mechanical Handling

T HE growing demand for cost-, labourand timesaving machinery and systems in all industries is evident from the amount and...

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Flight's Win at Brighton

H IGHLY placed among award winners at coach rallies over the past few years have been Flight's Tours, Ltd. At the 1960 British...

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Removers at Folkestone

Discussing access to buildings, and a study of profit ratios FROM S. BUCKI,EY Assoc. Inst. T. 64 I BELIEVE that this...

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Conference of the British Associatton of Overseas Furniture Removers

“ I FEEL the basis of relationship between the N.A.F.W.R. and the B.A.O.F.R. has not Changed with the times. Both...

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More Tippers for North West

And a Large South Wales Application 'TIPPERS are to the fore again. The I North Western "As and Ds '' contains the majority of...

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Easier Load Handling

D EVIONST RATIONS were given in London recently of the Retract-ATrack system of load handling which is bein g shown at the...

Dunlop Compressor

T HE lar g est air compressor so far to appear in the ,Dunlop range has been announced. It is a 21-ca.-ft. stationary unit...

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Problems of Expansion

Existing efficiency may be jeopardized if a commercial vehicle operator continues' to add to his fleet without adequate...