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13th February 1959
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To Wait Or Not ?

4 AULIERS who hold more than one special A licence expiring on different dates is year and later, have to • cide whether to...

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Front-wheel Drive for Motorways?

IVO vehicle maker would consider producing a standard goods chassis of the heavier type for longdistance work in this country...

Passing Comments

An American on British Advertising I T is not often that references to advertisements are made in the editorial section of...

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One Hears

Of dogs worrying sheep, but seldom of sheep worrying Licensing Authority. That "improvements in nozzles" do not necessarily...

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Hauliers Sceptical About 10-hour Rail Service

BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT I ONDON hauliers engaged on the London-Glasgow trunk route view 1 - 4 with some scepticism the...

Special Low-loaders Not Needed ?

THE proposed expenditure of £24,000 on new vehicles to undertake a 4,000ton pipe haul from Scotland to North Wales came in for...

Exception to Protection for Losing Services

O PERATORS of unremunerative services must generally be protected against abstraction by newcomers from their existing...

LONDON BUS TRAFFIC 19.3% DOWN

pDASSENGERS carried by London Transport's buses and coaches last year were 19.3 per cent, fewer than in 1957, and mileage...

NO LOADING BAN—YET

P ROPOSALS for banning the loading and unloading of vehicles during specific hours in congested areas of Newcastle upon Tyne...

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New A Licence for Eight Lorries Granted : Contract A Transfer

A NEW A licence for eight vehicles was granted to Mr. T. H. Rowe, a Salford haulier, on Monday, by the North Western Licensing...

COMMISSIONERS MAY USE THEIR OWN KNOWLEDGE

I N an appeal decision released this week, the Minister of Transport confirmed that Traffic Commissioners were entitled to take...

Forms Were Wrong— Assignment Postponed

Id E necessity of the greatest care in eating with forms was again illustrated at Stockton on Tees, last week, when the...

Eaula ge Take-over Delayed : Normal User Changed

LANS by James Banks (Carriers), Ltd_, Dundee, to take over the Northern tor Lorry Co., Dundee, who hold a r-vehiele A licence,...

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More Fare Increases Granted in the North and in Scotland

THIRTEEN Scottish bus operators I were last week granted fare increases by the Scottish Traffic Commissioners to bring their...

Men in the News

MR. J. J. O'DwyEit, commercial superintendent of Coras Impair Eireann since 1951, has retired after 47 years' service. MR. A....

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aatain is Europe's Biggest Exporter EAT BRITAIN exported more ommercial vehicles than any other aean motor manufacturing...

Fares Application Not Big Enough

WHEN Swindon Corporation applied irv to the Western Traffic Commissioners for fare increases, this week, Mr. S. W. Nelson,...

MINISTER DEFENDS STAFF ON MOTORWAYS CHARGES

C HARGES that the Ministry of Transport deleted proposals for the drainage of the Preston motorway were refuted by Mr. Harold...

ProsecutionDrop Hours Test Case

A TEST case to decide whether a lorry driver can drive home by car after completing his permitted hours of driving away from...

FREE SHOREHAM BUS

T HE latest free bus service to be started by a local Liberal party is in Shoreham, where fares have been increased. A hired...

NEW WORKS MANAGER

A FIER 13 years' service with the company. Mr. J. R. Privett has been appointed works manager at the Basingstoke factory of...

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Coach Holidays More Popular

WITH increasing prosperity in the VI' industrial district of Shropshire, more people are becoming interested in extended coach...

ITALIANS TO MAKE LEWIN

SWEEPER T EWIN sweepers are to be made under licence by the Macchi concern, of Varese, Italy. This arrangement follows...

Pleasure ways Defend £15 Tour Charge

THE tight by Pleasureways (1955). I Ltd., for a new seven-day tour to Margate was continued at Manchester on Tuesday (The...

Warning on Hours

to be Published A SPECIAL notice is to be inserted in 1 — ithe next issue of the Yorkshire Area's A pplications and Decisions...

CHRYSLER PLANT IN CAPE TOWN

A N agreement between Chrysler International, S.A., and Atkinson Oates Motors, Ltd., South Africa, has resulted in the...

BUS OPERATORS MERGE

T HE acquisition of D. J. Morrison. Ltd., bus operators, Tcnby, by W. L. Silcox and Son, Pembroke Dock, was approved last week...

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randa Likes Lorries ,d Buses from U.K.

the 613 new lorries registered in ganda last year, 442 were from the I Kingdom—and Bedfords were top list, with 178 units. Next...

W COST OF COMPETITION 4PETIT1ON in the commercial chicle industry

is so intense that are being cut despite rising costs. was slated by Mr. Michael Moore, nan of Jonas Woodhead and Sons, Leeds...

Big New Depot for Red and White

PA. A BUS station capable of handling the I.50 vehicles serving the Glamorgan and Monmouthshire valleys from Tredegar has been...

"A" Lorry Each Granted to Two Hauliers

L'OLLOW1NG the unconditional withdrawal of British Transport Commission objections; additional A-licensed vehicles were...

L" Vehicles Had Contract Trailers

[EN Barber Turnock Transport, Ltd., Stockport, put in an A licence cation to the North Western Licensauthority, Mr. F,...

MOVE TO INCREASE CRANE SALES

T O combat what they term " the aggressive bid of Continental crane manufacturers for world markets," Steel and Co., Ltd.,...

INDIAN CONFERENCE

In A MESSAGE of greeting from the Traders' Road Transport Association was read at the opening session of the two-day conference...

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"Better Roads Would.

Save Fuel" " IF we could divert some of the L tremendous capital expenditure that is going into the fuel industry to building...

Radius for Coal Put at 50 Miles

B ECAUSE a former associated company is now an entirely separate entity, Hunter's of Hull (Transport), Ltd., were at...

STANDARDIZATION GRANT

To enable them to standardize their I fleet, Allison's (Transport). Ltd., were last week granted a variation of their A licence...

Municipal 0 • pportunittes

Accrington Transport Committee wish to buy four Guy double-decker chassis. Barrow in Forma Corporation seek to borrow €4.421...

En Extended Seaside Tours for 0.A.P.s Granted by Commissioners

B ECAUSE they had a much smaller field to cover for passengers and fewer picking-up points than large operators, R. H. Harrison...

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Driver Loses Claim for Damages

MAN who injured his wrist trying to start a 1933 lorry was unsuccesswhen he claimed damages from his oyers at Worcestershire...

L CAR TRANSPORTER SERVICE " UNRELIABLE "

7 the new cars which are taken each 'ear to A. and C. McLennaa at), Ltd.. 95 per cent. are driven by McLennan's own men,...

Hauliers Spur the Railways

T HE spur of free-enterprise road haulage had caused the London Midland Region of British Railways to streamline their freight...

"Why Labour's Plan is Being Kept Quiet"

A LTHOUGH the Labour Party have /-% said that they may shortly publish more details of their plans for reflationalizing iron...

LABOUR PLANS HIT SALES

A FALLING off in the sale of commercial vehicles will be reported by the chairman of the Braid Group, Ltd.. Mr. Robert Braid,...

Micrograms. .

Pickfords Move: The Bedford branch of B.R.S. (Pickfords), Ltd.. has been moved to 75 Harpur Street. A.E.C. Order: The...

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Post Office Continue Tests With Oilers

F URTHER tests with oil engines are to be made by the Post Office before thcy decide whether tc replace all their...

NOVEL POWER DRIVE FOR NUBIAN

A NEW design of power drive has been devised by Transport Equipment (Thornycroft), Ltd., for the Nubian sixwheel-drive fire...

DUBLIN MEN SAY " NO " TO CONTAINERS

n UBLIN'S cross-channel dockers, by an overwhelming majority, have rejected the recommendation of the Labour Court that they...

Abolish Speed Limit, Say Bus Operators

T "proposal to raise the speed limit for buses and coaches outside builtup areas to 40 m.p.h. has brought a protest from the...

" SAFETY BELTS WOULD HALVE ACCIDENTS"

T HE use of safety belts would reduce fatalities and the seriousness of injuries to drivers and passengers of vehicles by 50...

Tax Fraud Charges: Defence Unprepared

ON an application by the defence, the trial of three men and a woman accused of conspiracy and income tax frauds was put over...

M.P.s TOLD OF PARKING PROBLEMS IN FRANCE

T HE number of vehicles on the road should not be allowed to increase at a fantastic rate without adequate parking facilities...

NEW TRAFFIC WARDENS—CASH PROBLEM ARISES

THE much-publicized proposal for recruiting a corps of traffic wardens in Nottingham has received a body-blow —from Nottingham...

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and D. Vehicle Lestricted to Fish !,RE were no objections

from fish auliers when Link Road Transport , Ltd., applied at Bridlington, last for a new B licence to cover a e of 2* tons...

PLASTICS CONTAINERS FOR RAIL SERVICES experimental plastics containers for ,or-to-door

deliveries have been ed by British Railways. Resined glass fibre will be used far the ends, floors and roofs of the units, :hey...

IOAD-HEATING PROGRESS

rISFACTORY progress has been nadc by the Road Research Laborainto electrical heating of roads, Mr. ticholls, Parliamentary...

And All Because of Half a Crown . . .

L'OR many years two Somerset coach 1 operators shared business between them, carrying miners to local pits. Then came the...

Big Seammell on Trial on the Continent

D ESTINED for the Amsterdam Commercial Vehicle Show, a Scammell Highwayman 28ULQ680S144 12-ft.wheelbase left-hand-drive...

NO DELAY WITH TESTING SCHEME T HE Minister of Transport stated

in the House of Commons last week that he did not think there would be any further delay in introducing a vehicle testing...

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Bus Services are With a

A CCORDING to the latest figures. Bedford is one of the four major towns in England and Wales which have had the most rapid...

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Running Over Mud

r APABLE of supporting loads of up to 10 tons when laid It is primarily intended for use on muddy ground so that vehicles can...

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00 cu. ft. of Space in Compact Van

(ANDY forward-control van version of the .edford TJ normal-control 25-cwt., 35-cwt. 3-ton models has been produced by H.C.B....

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DUTCH WELCOME AIR SPRING NOVELTIES

E VER since the 1957 Frankfurt Show, air suspension has been the chief talking point at most European commercial-vehicle...

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Back to School

R. JOHN BARBER is now a school master mariner. Apparently he still has some surplus energy left after :tioning as a director of...

Florence Motors Win Continental Tour Battle

IREE out of four appeals by James Smith and Co. (Wigan), Ltd., coning Continental tours have been 4ssed by the Minister of...

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Cops and Robbers

H OW seriously hauliers regard the increase in !hefts from lorries is shown by the transmission to the chairman's committee of...

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Calling the Railways' Bluff

By a Special Correspondent ,RITISH RAILWAYS seem to be abandoning the role of objector to applications for the renewal of A...

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"No Need to Worry if Traffic has Changed"

I F circumstances force a substantial change of normal user on a haulier there appears to be no reason why he should not apply...

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That Agreement on Normal User

an article published in your issue dated January 16, 2.a1ph Cropper asked why the Road Haulage Association ered into the...

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Factors that Control Costs

ECAUSE total distribution costs depend on many variable factors, their study must inevitably be complex, particu larly as the...

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A Polygonal Engine

THERE are many advantages in a I polygonal layout of cylinders of which the Napier " Deltic " engine is an example, but such...