channels of supply, the Zambian companies were called upon to undertake a massive fuel lift by road, as well as other special...

The road goods industry will welcome the clear declaration of faith in a bright future for private hauliers which the RHA...

Noel Wynn sees bright future for road haulage despite unfair State competition • To a substantial extent, competition...

• A tipping group to cover the London area has been set up with six founder members; it has the support of the R HA and...

• Exactly a year after his own company was merged with Crane Fruehauf to form Britain's biggest container and trailer-group,...

• A - novel method of lifting and transporting trees has been developed by Newman Tree Movers Ltd., Tring, Herts....

• ':My inquiries have shown that scientific research, both here and in other countries, gives no grounds for reducing the...

need Radical new proposals by BRF • A National Roads Authority with a network of Regional Roads Boards, and separate Boards...

• Tor Line, which runs roll-on ferry services to Sweden and the Continent from Immingham, has negotiated a trial agreement...

• How good are you? Who does what in your organization? What precisely does your organization set out to achieve? Searching...

• The flimsiness of the official plating certificates was criticized by Mr. L. J. Cotton, transport and materials handling...

• The one-day seminar on the theme "Quantity licensing and the transport manager" arranged by Davies and Robson, transport...

• The Ministry of Transport's goods vehicle testing station covering Gloucester and Cheltenham opened on Monday, a week...

• Armed with the promise that the MoT plans talks with all interested parties about the Transport Bill proposal for the...

From our industrial correspondent • A mass meeting of 1,500 Hull lorry drivers voted unanimously on Tuesday to end their...

• "If the Ministry of Transport had applied to quantity licensing and one or two other aspects of the Transport Bill half the...

• Argument raged in a Manchester traffic court on Wednesday over a licence that might never be needed. If the Transport Bill...

• The Road Haulage Association and the Traders Road Transport Association are to draw up an examination syllabus for licensed...

A statement was expected this week from the board of Bain and Hodge Ltd., the 700-vehicle hauliers, on the £1 .2m take-over...

G. W. Lewis, general manager of the Econofreight Group of Companies, has been appointed a director of Econofreight Transport...

We record with regret the deaths of Lesley Hill, Thomas Hudson. Wallace Henry Marsh Terraneau. Henry Orme White and Robert...

by Derek Moses • At a special meeting last week, Sunderland Corporation transport committee approved a plan for the...

• "This confirms our worst fears", commented Cllr. Neville Trotter, chairman of Newcastle upon Tyne transport, highways and...

• An experimental transit coach with a "kneeling" capability to lower the step height, interior appointments similar to a jet...

• A nationwide campaign for priorities for buses has been launched by the Public Transport Association, with the help of a...

continued front page 23 logical stimulus of my keen interest in this project compensated for any extra strain. On night...

• in the Bill • • • • from our political • • correspondent • • The Government remains deter • mined to...

says Ramsbottom • Replying to the Minister of Transport's request for its views upon inclusion in the PTA for SE Lancashire...

O A TRTA spokesman this week "deplored" the Secretary of State for Scotland's proposal to increase tolls for the Forth road...

• A minor alteration in the rules governing driving hours was made ---in the face of Government resistance—when the Lords...

• Consignment notes are well established documents in road transport; for many years they have been used by operators as...

• Following checks carried out by Ministry of Transport enforcement officers earlier this year. 10 drivers were fined a total...

• The Transport Tribunal reserved its decision on Tuesday after rehearing the appeal made by the Transport Holding Company...

• In a written decision, the South Eastern Traffic Commissioners have granted applications made by Southdown Motor Services...

• The Traffic Commissioners for the South Eastern Area have refused a fares increase application by the Brighton Area...

• Figures submitted in support of a new A-licence application referred to work given to a clearing house and passed on to the...

• Four Guy Big ..I chassis fitted with truckmixers will be on show at the Public Works Exhibition which opens at Olympia on...

British speakers for Baltimore symposium SEVERAL prominent British speakers will attend a series of four symposia to be held...

Another container operator to move into Teesside is Containerway and Roadferry Ltd. with an office at Tees Dock, Lackenby,...

• An extension of some 15,000 sq. ft. to John Thompson (Transport Division) Ltd. 's Basildon works was officially opened last...

• Hands Trailers Ltd. has granted an overseas manufacturing and marketing licence to AB Nord-Verk of Uddevalla, Sweden. The...

• The W. P. Butterfield Group of Shipley. Yorkshire, has taken the first step towards the proposed formation of an hydraulics...

• The new BMC Laird. fresh from Earls Court, is one of the principal exhibits in a big display of BMC and Guy commercials...

by Handyman Manpower, maintenance and the MoT (13) • In recent articles I have stressed the importance of driver...

THE 1968 Salon de l'ilinoonobile in Paris, running true to form, has all the glitter and glamour of the major international...

continued model for carrying long steel and similar loads on both sides of a centrally located cab. New UNIC normal-use...

continued from page 46 S9, having a MAN 165 bhp gross diesel, SAVIEM six-speed gear-box and the SAVIEM-built tilt cab. The...

* Mr. Bus I am sure busmen everywhere will be delighted, as I am, that Tony Galley is to run the National Bus Company—that...

Have you 5d stamps at the ready, members of the IOTA London Centre! At the social in Shell-Mex House last week to start the new...

When Prince Zachias Ade Ogunwo, vicepresident of the Nigerian Motor Transport Users' Union and his general secretary met lain...

As the years have, rolled by the task faced by the expert panel that adjudicates on the Manchester Corporation Cleansing...

Just before the opening of the Houndsworth MoT testing station at Sheffield, a lorry bearing the new roller brake tester wound...

After all that has emanated from the Ministry of Transport about road safety in recent years, you may be as surprised as I was...

Few signs of progress regarded as roughly equivalent when it is remembered that the number of examinations, 186,000, was lower...

The cost of better braking THE interim Braking Standards for existing vehicles came into force on January 1 1968. to be...

lion of this problem. The cost factor is a temporary, once for all, charge. New vehicles will have to conform to the final...

and addresses of manufacturers of notice plates for fixing in vehicle cabs and reading "No Unauthorized Passenger, etc. . . ."...

with a tuned inlet manifold. Could you explain the meaning of "'tuned" in this instance? A Because of the opening and closing...

pressure at the inlet valves under full load over a limited speed/ load range corresponding to maximumtorque speed or the...

present from the plating regulations it is doubtful whether your vehicle is a "mobile crane" within the meaning of the Vehicles...

Standard Lists it appears that the 6-ton Scammell will be plated for a gross train weight of 9.5 tons. This weight does not...

information regarding institutions providing sandwich courses for Transport Studies at university level and the qualifications...

A WELCOME recent development has been the appointment of education and training officers by professional institutes. Mr. J. E....

REMEMBER that last week I pointed out that the Inflammable Substances (Conveyance by Road) (Labelling) Regulations 1968 came...