Operators who had hoped for a change of government to rescue them from the objectionable provisions of the Transport Bill may...

from our political correspondent • Mr. Richard Marsh, a tall, gangling, likeable man of 40—the youngest member of the...

• The new Minister of Transport, Mr. Richard Marsh, is to fulfil engagements to meet transport operators at meetings which had...

"Mr. Marsh, a man of far more moderate id reasonable views than Mrs. Castle, has immense opportunity of saving the nation )m...

Leaders of 33,000 London Transport busen hope to know today (Thursday) whether sir new pay and productivity agreement is get...

The Conservative-controlled Manchester City Council last week unexpectedly passed a resolution against proposals to set up...

The uselessly swift consideration of transport managers' licensing by Parliament came in for sharp criticism by the TRTA's...

Ministers told by our industrial correspondent • Three Ministers were told by the Transport and General Workers' Union on...

• The strike of 7,000 Merseyside lorry drivers ended on Monday after a back-towork vote at a mass meeting last Thursday. The...

• The proposal to exempt trailers run by farmers from testing and plating regulations has drawn a 'strong protest from the Road...

• Grants have finally been made, following the B licence applications by Mendips tipper operators to the Western Licensing...

• A new and simpler definition of what constitutes an abnormal load came into force on Monday (April 8). It is published as the...

METRA seminar reported 1y John Darker, AMBIM. I It was quite wrong to suggest that cost 'as the major criterion for assessment...

BRS managements on lednesday of last week the meeting connued until 1 a.m. on Thursday morning, 'rites John Darker. Substantial...

carry 40ft containers, but not as a regular operation, the British Trailer Co. Ltd. has introduced this extensible skeletal...

design, manufacture and market handling and transport equipment. Standardized production methods for interchangeable components...

PRODUCTIVITY APPROACH THAT IS PAYING OFF by our industrial correspondent • A British Railways road transport der was running...

• A strong line-up of speakers has been arranE for the fifth international conference of Institute of Materials Handling to be...

• Whatever controls may have to be introduced in respect of the uSe of private cars in Britain's historic towns and cities...

• The load weight at which quantity licensing will start may be raised from 10 tons to 11. A promise that the Government would...

• The Convention of Royal Burghs. meeting in Edinburgh on April 2. decided by a largt majority that four motions which strongh...

• Newcastle upon Tyne's request for a public inquiry into the proposed State takeover of the city's bus undertaking was turned...

1 Channel Airways were on Monday ranted a one-year licence to run a coach ervice between Stansted Airport and 3ishop's...

• A waste clearance firm whose original application for a B licence was described by Mr. G. K. Newman, the North Western deputy...

A haulier who complained that a nonopoly existed in household removals in us area and that there was no room for 3rivate...

• British Railways' application to run a peakhour stage carriage service between Liverpool Central Station and Garston Station,...

• The Minister has dismissed the appeal lodged by Valliant Cronshaw Ltd. against the decision of the Metropolitan Traffic...

• Holmeswood Coaches Ltd., Ormskirk, was granted the renewal of its excursion and tours licence in Manchester last week with...

• Road haulage licences can neither b sold nor transferred, and Scottish deputy Li Mr. L. A. Wells, was quick to assert this...

The manager's licence • The transport manager's licence proposed in Section 61 of the Transport Bill is perhaps the most...

by C. Hyams • Just delivered to Jersey Motor Transport Ltd., St. Helier, is the first new Pennine IV p.s.v. chassis made by...

• The Government's new wages policy may raise new difficulties for municipal bus undertakings at the end of the present...

• A formula giving an extra bonus of 12s a week to 110,000 company busmen on urban routes was agreed between six unions and the...

by our industrial correspondent • Liverpool's 34,000 bus drivers and conductors, who have been on unofficial strike for a...

• The first Bristol buses equipped with two-way radio went into service last week— and the scope of "Operation Crime Stop"...

by our industrial correspondent • Coventry Corporation and the Transport and General Workers Union may make a joint approach...

by A. J. P. Wilding • One of the main impressions from the papers and discussions at the Conference held by CAV Ltd., in...

by Paul Brockington • A retractable type of tipping trailer has been announced by Welford Engineering (Oldbury) Ltd., Hainge...

Two papers which municipal-vehicle erators will find very worth while were asented at a meeting of the automobile rision of the...

Bedford is now able to provide heavy-duty ront axles and spring units to cover diminish- ig-load operations where front axle...

• The Perkins Engine Group has introduced a new scheme making a wider range of standard optional components available....

A. F. R. Carling has been elected chairman of Ribble Motor Services Ltd. in succession to R. P. Beddow, who is retiring. Mr....

A fascinating and very topical book has just been sent to me. It is the annual report for January to June 1967 of the Swedish...

Yet another organization for transport enthusiasts, I see: the Road Transport Society, which is publishing a quarterly news...

Paperwork and form filling takes up a great deal of most businessmen's time. Mr. H. Bradshaw of J. E. Bradshaw and Sons, an...

I like the story of the trade union offici making a drive for increased membershi Examining conditions at a transport dep he...

How many people know what a Lux It has nothing to do with washing small It is one of the expressions we must get use to under...

In many parts of the country recruitment office staff is easier if modern amenities at provided. Soulless open plan offices are...

e latest laws regarding tyre condition carry nalties which include a rather sinister and, eel, not generally recognized, point....

by Les Oldridge AIRTE, AMIN Use, cause or permit IN MOST CASES the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1966,...

There was a time not very long ago when a man with reasonable working knowledge of the main provisions of the Road Traffic Act...

by Handyman Vehicle recovery: tricks, trucks and tactics (II) • An operator going out to a vehicle that has left the road and...

7 tomer by R. D. Cate AMInstBE The report in CM March 8 concerning the re-launching o BMC 's FJ truck models told of changes in...

on which a maker of heavy goods vehicles should base his forward planning. And he emphasizes that implementing this concept...

Building on the past Marsh makes of it all remains to be seen. With the help of the guillotine the Bi is racing through...

which a Minister is responsible for ie actions committed in his name. Mrs. ;arbara Castle will be remembered as 4inister of...

CIVI's regular contributor, 'Handyman', offers practical advice on selecting men, methods and machines to put a fleet in good...

People hostile to road transport like to describe it as labour-intensive; they lack the wit to see that this is something of a...

In Mr. Brockington's - The Next 10 Years" feature published on March 22 we were rather surprised to see the remark : "A 40ft...

I understand that the RTITB is making grants to hauliers entering this year's LDOY competition. Can you tell me if this is so...

30cwt vans on shortand long-distance work. Do you consider that replacing the belt-driven fans with an electrically driven type...

system of a vehicle, e.g. wheels are not properly tracked, would the fitting of radial ply tyres cause this fault to be more...

tion weight be taken into account when semi-trailers are plated? If one has a trailer plated at 17 tons gross (unladen weight 2...

belt failure is relatively common compared with the belts of similar vehicles fitted with d.c. generators. Is this because the...

depreciation that should be allowed in commercial vehicle costing and what is a realistic rate of interest on the capital...

Read widely but wisely about road transport I HAVE STRESSED that only by wide reading can the "feel" of a subject be realized...

S.E.T.S. The Seatyres Group and the Hills Tyres Group have merged their tyre distribution interests in a new holding company,...