Critics of transport education have been presented with a unique and unrepeatable chance to try their hand at syllabus...

Detailed guidance for doctors shows that users of contact lenses will be debarred. CM's deputy editor reports on experience of...

Commons hear proposals by Scottish Secretary • Clydesiders' wait for a move towards the establishment of Scotland's...

BRS Ltd. dreams up a revolutionary delivery scheme • Night deliveries of foodstuffs in pre-packed containers are envisaged...

• Mrs. Barbara Castle has been urged by the Road Haulage Association, in a detailed memorandum presented to her this week, to...

• Just before the opening of the Amsterdam Show I had the chance of sampling one of the new OAF tilt-cab models featured...

• In regulations laid before Parliament this week, the Minister of Transport has proposed further exemptions from the...

• Proposals by the transport industry that heavier goods vehicles—i.e. up to 44 tons weight for single vehicles—should be...

On March 1 the 17 journals previously published by Temple Press, Iliffe Transport Press, Harlequin Press and Trade and...

• in spite of a 60 per cent increase in operating costs in the 1959-1969 decade, Express Dairy held total costs in check by...

Picture 1: The third Charrold T(opermatic bought by Cradle and Co. Ltd, during the past 12 months has gone into service at...

• A major campaign to improve transit times is reported by National Carriers Ltd. in its February news magazine. Terminal...

• Reports that many bridges throughout the country, and particularly in Yorkshire, are to be closed for repairs and...

• As with the continuing story of Peyton Place, there seems to be no end to the Streetly Saga of the Hines family. Last year,...

J. W. Tweedie, general manager, Scottish Omnibuses Ltd., has been appointed a director of the Scottish Bus Group Ltd. Mr....

• Certain exemptions to the hours regulations for passenger ' vehicle drivers were laid before Parliament by the Minister of...

• Certain changes to the UK specifications of Leyland Leopards and Panthers mean that these vehicles now fully comply with...

• The five objectors to the application by 31 p.s.v. operators for the £8 eight-day Coach Master tickets listed to be heard...

• A new UK bus/coach marketing and sales organization has been established by British Leyland's truck and bus division to...

• W. A. Glendinning Ltd., of Shotleybridge, had its operator's licence application refused in Newcastle on Monday. The...

• Because a haulage partnership claims to be unable to meet the demands of its customers, and, even after sub-contracting...

• According to Miss E. Havers QC the red London Transport double-deck bus is a hallmark a the metropolis. She stated this...

licence revoked • Mr. H. Coleby, of Dunston-on-Tyne, Gateshead, had his heavy goods vehicle driving licence revoked and was...

• The application by Henry and Co. (Transport) Ltd. for a new B licence for two tippers conditioned "building, road-making...

• The first operators' licence applications to be published. in Applications and Decisions have appeared this week. Western...

• Charles Poulter Ltd., of London, El, pleaded guilty at Wallington, Surrey, magistrates' court on Monday to two charges of...

• N. Grocott and Son Ltd. was granted the addition of one artic to its A licence after it had accepted the normal user...

from our Parliamentary correspondent 1 in 10 not yet plated • About one in 10 of the goods vehicles due for plating and...

• A service bulletin to all trailer manufacturers and users of trailers equipped with Rubery Owen-Rockwell TM and TH Series...

• Smith's Electric Vehicles Ltd. has transferred the manufacture of the Cabac dairy vehicle from Eastern Avenue, Team Valley,...

• Sayers Transport Service (Newbury) Ltd. claims to be the first operator to use the new larger (42 cu.yd.) bulk grain and...

• To make the most of plating regulations that encourage the lightest possible construction combined with maximum capacity,...

fifth wheel • A new Pro-Par sliding fifth-wheel coupling was announced recently by Crane Fruehauf Trailers Ltd. It is...

• Cummins engines, built at the company's Shotts, Lanarkshire, factory, have been adopted as standard in the first...

• Hands Trailers Ltd., Letchworth, has received an order to build 42 single-axle semi-trailers for the Ideal-Standard Group...

• Since the CM Guide to 24-Hour and Emergency Service was published on December 12 we have been notified of the following...

commentary by Norman Douglas in Southampton A monthly intelligence report on container topics Announcements, and rumours, and...

Michael Heseltine • Michael Heseltine, Conservative MP for Tavistock since 1966, is now the front bench Opposition spokesman...

There is a great deal of truth in the article by Peter Haxby (CM January 9) regarding the standard of training programmes...

Through the medium of CM may I take the liberty to challenge Mr. Jackson of DialHolmes (England) Ltd., regarding . comments he...

I am responsible for over 30 large vehicles on contract hire to leading companies of household products. I am appalled at the...

by Handyman Benchwise: lathe sense (5) MENTION a reamer to a young mechanic or garage fitter and he will think at once of the...

by the Hawk • The light brigade They let me out now and again, and I've been lucky enough to get to both the Geneva and...

by Tony Wilding, IVIIMechE, MIFITE ALTHOUGH its opening followed that of Geneva by only five days, very little of the glitter...

Estimate now: adjust later • Despite good intentions a newcomer to commercial vehicle costing can get the whole subject out...

"WE LIKE to keep things simple," Mr. J. H. Wade, joint managing director of Watsons (Carriers) Ltd., parcels carriers, told me:...

by John Vann, FCII The knock-for knock agreement • The knock-for-knock agreement is looked .upon with grave suspicion by...

E CAL GOVERNMENT may be one of the many subjects on which the political parties disagree but its structure is certain to be...

matters by John Darker, AMBIM Tipping groups: the way ahead (2) CONTINUING last week's survey of CM's special articles on...

by Les Oldridge AIRTE, AMIMI The new h. g.v. driving licence (4) WHEN for any reason, not the fault of the candidate for a...

The new Bedford CF van has created a great deal of interest; in the February 20 issue of CM a road test report on one of these...

repairing heavy commercial vehicles. As part of my work I have to road-test vehicles after repair and I know I shall need an...

address of any journal in Canada, particularly British Columbia, covering the heavy timber haulage and logging industry? A We...

under operators' licensing and which ones will still require to be operated under the conditions of our existing carrier's...

four-wheeled vehicles. One carries showground equipment and is also used to draw my living caravan; the other also carries...

overhanging the rear of vehicles and the lighting and marking of them? We are. thinking in particular of "skids" used on a s....

country or abroad, and if so what is the principle of operation? A it is presumed that this question refers to service brakes....

IN THE Boxing Day issue, I wrote about the 1971 start of the Open University. I hoped that this new institution could present a...