L1AULIERS have been presented with an excellent opportunity 1 Ito get to effective grips with a particularly difficult cost...

B RITISH ROAD SERVICES and the Road Haulage Association are cooperating for the next 12 months in a campaign using the slogan...

T - NIESEL fuel is marketed in summer and winter grades with differeni " freezing " points. A constituent of the summer grade...

T HE responsibility of road transport operators to make good the effect of rail closures on the public was the main theme of a...

that the procedure for obtaining temporary substitution of a vehicle under Section 14 of the Road Traffic Act was...

TO help companies and associations to I understand and fulfil the rules about trading agreements, cartels, restrictive trade...

A FTER being granted an A licence in April, 1961, a haulage firm in Birmingham did not carry on business as a public carrier....

B.T.C. Appeal Upheld T HE Transport Tribunal, sitting in Edinburgh under its new president, Mr. G. D. Squibb, Q.C., on...

haulage concern was granted a B licence by the East Midland Licensing Authority in Lincoln on Tuesday, enabling them to carry...

nESPITE objections by British Rail ways, British Road Services and eight independent road objectors, G. H. Ford and Sons, of...

the application . 1-3 . by Sidney Machin, Ltd., on page 41, had closed for press, a written decision was issued by Mr. Else,...

T W 0 applications by F. W. Dawson and Co., Ltd., of London, for extra vehicles on A licence, primarily to carry periodicals...

k NUMBER of independent hauliers, - 1 as well as BR. and B.R.S., objected t Bristol last week at the resumed earing of an...

Licensing Authority, at Carl' sle last week, turned down an application by Joseph Millican (Penton), Ltd., of Longtown,...

A Napplication involving the transfer of eight vehicles of 43 tons from contract A to public A licence was concluded at Hanley...

AST week at Leeds, the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners granted an application by Halifax Corporation and Halifax Joint Omnibus...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT ONDON TRANSPORT failed this week to win their busmen's support far-reaching plans for...

LAP time of 3 min. 25 sec. was returned by a Mercedes-Beni on the lite motor-racing circuit at Silverstone Monday. The vehicle...

District Excursion and Tour Operators Association will be held on Wednesday, December 12, at the Brocket Arms Hotel, Wigan,...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT THREE separate pledges that the road I haulage industry would be renationalized if a Labour...

CROM November I, it will no longs be necessary for current records t be kept in respect of C licence vehicle of up to 16 cwt....

nPENING the National Road Safety "Li Congress last week, the Minister of Transport said he was still thinking about whether...

has been appointed, as from vember 1, passenger transport manaof Warrington Corporation. He :eeds Mr. N. McDonald, who goes...

Roland Dangerfield will be succeeded as Chairman by Mr. V. G. Sherren. Mr, P. K. Jennens becomes Deputy Chairman and continues...

WIE regret to record the deaths of Mr. VI' A. E. P. Crane, Mr. H. W. Dawes and Mr. G. W. Walker. Mr. Crane. was a director of...

C LAYTON DEWANDRE Air-Pak airassisted hydraulic braking systems are now available on Austin and Morris normaland...

Passenger Transport Trust has placed a contract for 30 Leyland Worldmasters, generally similar to those previously supplied to...

D URING July, 1962. commercial vehicle production totalled 21.154. This figure was much smaller than that for the preceding...

I the distribution and servicing of their b teries, Oldham and Son, Ltd., last we opened a new depot at Alma Road, Pond' End,...

been opened by John Needh. and Co. (Sheffield), Ltd., which fronts chief approach road for the A57 at Fl william Gate near its...

Institut of Mechanical Engineers, Mr. H. A. De presented an address entitled "From He line News to Accepted Practice" to annual...

ATEST addition to the range of mechanical handling equipment made Riordan Enterprises, Ltd., 1 New rlington Street, Regent...

hange EVER have the winds of change blown more strongly throughout the transport industry than they do today. Never has the...

T WO Northern General Transport Company bus drivers from Consett have recently arrived back in this country after a . trip to...

J NTIL " excessive " as it relates to diesel smoke has been defined nationally or internationally, and operators have become...

Better fuel consumption has resulted from research by a major p.s.v. operator T HE findings and comments in the foregoing...

By JOHN F. MOON, A.M.I.R.T.E. O CCUPYING a total covered area of 30 acres, including the sections devoted to cars, motorcycles...

W HILST - British passenger-vehicle manufacturers have been concentrating for a number of years on the provision of low,...

By S. BUCKLEY, Assoc. Inst. T. M ORE extensive use of bulk delivery vehicles in the seed and corn trade awaits...

Dames! Do you recall their names? N OT only primitive societies believe that names have magical properties. The choice of the...

T HE British have changed. Whilst talking politics or religion in a pub was, in the good old days, a bigger crime than spilling...

C OMMERCIAL vehicles are, or should be, just as much a commercial proposition as any business, be it a shop or a factory. In...