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Case for Talks

T WO weeks ago, The Commercial Motor asked: "Is there a case for issuing a special driving licence to goods vehicle drivers?...

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R.H.A. CALLS HALT ON RATES

A T a meeting in London on Friday the rates and carriers' liability committee of the Road Haulage Association decided to make...

Union Acts on Lanes-London Night Schedules

STRONG efforts to check developments NJ in connection with Lanes-London overnight return runs, which they fear may lead to "...

T.R.T.A. WANTS BRAKE FAILURE DETAILS

G RAVE concern has been expressed by members of the Traders Road Transport Association vehicles committee at a meeting when the...

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TOUGH BARGAINING AHEAD ON LINER TRAINS

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT UNION opposition to private road 1/4. 1 hauliers is threatening Dr. Beeching's plans for...

Railway Reshapin g Progress to Date

S INCE the Beeching Report was produced, in the field of rail freight 552 small stations had been closed, said Mr. A. R....

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Abnormal Loads—'Hauliers Should Pay'

A PROPOSAL that it should be made PA. obligatory on the part of the Minister of Transport to consult the highway authority...

T.D.G. PROFIT UP

THE Transport Development Group Ltd. made a profit of 13,781,183 last year, compared with £3,062,854 in 1962; this was the...

NEWS I N BRIEF New Scottish Depot for Lep: This

month, Lep Transport Co. Ltd. will move into a new depot to be established at the Airfield industrial estate, Grangemouth. The...

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'DRIVERS AGAINST RE-N.'

A CCORDING to reliable information received by Aims of Industry there is more opposition to nationalization from employees of...

MORE FINES IN DRIVERS' FUEL FIDDLE

T HE hearing of charges against longdistance lorry drivers alleged to have signed for diesel fuel they never received and...

FEW NEW VEHICLES AT GENEVA SHOW

Front Johan F. goon, Geneva, Wednesday 'THIS year's Swiss Motor Show has a larger commercial-vehicle section than on previous...

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Political and Parliamentary Still No Action on Jack Report

R ACTIC A L experiments to find the answer to the rural transport problem are to be conducted in selected areas. Announcing...

Petrol Exhausts More Suspect Than Diesel—Mr. Hogg T HE Minister of

Science, Mr. Quintin Hogg, told the Commons on Wednesday that there was no evidence to suggest that diesel engine fumes were a...

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THREE ON B LICENCE REFUSED

A N application by Ritsons Haulage Ltd. was refused by Mr. G. Newman, the North Western deputy Licensing Authority at...

Refrigerated Transport Granted Four on A Licence

A N application for six artics (refrigerated vans) on A licence. with the normal user" Meat and other refrigerated food within...

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Tribunal Upholds Revocation

T HE Transport Tribunal, in a written judgment, has dismissed an appeal by Trenafon Transport Ltd., of Wednesfield, against the...

E. MIDLAND CONTRACT SWITCH MADE SOLELY BECAUSE OF RATES

R ATES payable to hauliers in January, 1962, are still in existence today and there was no possibility of them being increased,...

• NO PROTECTION IN CONTRACTS T HE Northern Licensing Authority, Mr.

I. A. T. Hanlon, sitting at Durham on Monday, referred to a contract which, he said, did not give adequate protection for many...

Minister Refuses Passenger Appeals

THE Minister of Transport has disI missed three appeals against decisions of the Northern Traffic Commissioners. O.K. Motor...

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Where the Customer Comes Second

TRIBUNAL RULES THAT L.A. WAS RIGHT TO IGNORE CUSTOMERS RE can be no doubt that, in refusing to allow the appeal by Trenafon T...

Those War Office Tenders

S. Wales Commissioners refuse to be dictated to T HE system whereby Services departments bi-ennially put out to tender...

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Large Met. Tanker Switch

B y far the largest application to be notified this week appears in the Metropolitan "As and Ds", and is in the form of a...

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Men in .. the News Mr. J. B. Wilde has been elected

chairman of the bulk liquids group of the Road Haulage Association for 1964-65, together with Mr. H. Wood and Mr. W. M....

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New One-man Single-deckers for W. Hartlepool

F IVE attractive single-decker buses have been introduced by West Hartlepool Corporation Transport to replace doubledeckers on...

MINISTERS HAVE LONDON INQUIRY REPORT

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT T HE Committee of Inquiry into the pay and conditions of employment of London Transport...

Forth Bridge Service Bids Again

A PPLICATIONS for licences to run 1-1 . bus services over the Forth Road Bridge between Edinburgh and Fife, described as...

Leyland's Home Orders

A S recordedbriefly last week, recent orders for passenger chassis worth around 000,000 have been received by Leyland Motors...

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CUSTOMS SEIZE BUSES A T Kilmarnock Sheriff Court last week,

Carnock Valley Motors Ltd. and the company's managing director, Mr. William Smith, were fined a total of £130 —and 13 buses...

One-man for Midland O NE-MAN-OPERATED buses were introduced last Saturday on

four Midland Red routes—the first time the company has been able to dispense with conductors. The one-man buses are all...

PASSENGER NEWS IN BRIEF

Scottish Busmen for Ausiralia : Edinburgh transport employees have shown little interest in efforts to recruit 500 bus staff...

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I.o.T. Scholarships for 1964

T HE following Institute of Transport Scholarships are being offered for award in 1964:— One C.M.U.A. Road Transport...

A.E.C. MANDATOR 4 x 4 UNVEILED AT GENEVA.

Q NE of the A.E.C. exhibits at the Geneva Show is a Mandator 4 a 4 chassis with a wheelbase of 11 ft, designed particularly for...

York Trailer Expansion

I N addition to its service facilities, the York Trailer Co. Ltd. factory in London Road, Glasgow, E.2, is now functioning as a...

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ASSEMBLY PLANT FOR LEYLAND IN IRAN

O N Monday an assembly plant for Leyland vehicles and diesel engines was opened in Iran by the Iranian Prime Minister....

ORDERS AND DELIVERIES

EATON AXLES FOR EUROPE: Eaton Axles Ltd., Warrington, has received an initial order from Simca/Unic Industries Ltd., of France,...

NEWS IN BRIEF

a tn. Technical Centre Opened: British Oxygen Company's £.1 m. technical centre at North 'Circular Road, Cricklewood, was...

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Q-TYPE CHASSIS FOR SCIENCE MUSEUM

I LLUSTRATED here is a double-deck bus whose appearance would put many a modern bus to shame it was built as far back as 1934...

ROAD AND WORKSHOP by Handyman

Self-lubricating Bushes FREQUENTLY HEARD around transport repair shops are the words "premature failure" when some item has...

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NEW EQUIPMENT

and Publications Maserati Air Horns THREE models from the range of air horns marketed by Maserati. the Italian car makers,...

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WHAT PRICE MAC'S CAFFP

PART 1 Higher productivity, more goods, more vehicles —a challenging trend. But can transport catering meet the. changing...

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THE FINANCES OF THE MOTOR TRADING MARKET

A sound, reliable and friendly financial service is a primary requirement for traders in cars and commercial vehicles. And...

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Four-spring Bogie for Marshal

6x 2 A FTER a run of two years and four months, the York back-end of the A.E.C. Marshal single-drive, 20ton-gross six-wheeler...

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The Rill States its Policy Anew

IN the very near future the Road Haul.' age Association is to launch a publicity campaign, chiefly through the medium of local...

RENATIONALIZATION WOULD BE A TRAGEDY'

Ei VERY opportunity should be taken I— , to bring to the notice of the public the seriousness of nationalization, said Mr. J....

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OPERATORS' STRONG VIEWS ON CONTROLLING `TOO-FREE' TRANSPORT

1. Midland men favour special licences and training ‘ 4 j UST as it is said that every family has its black sheep, so it...

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Hydrostatic Drive for Universal

Application P A novel transmission w ith M.I.R.A. connections D ETAILS of the twin-shunt hydrostatic transmission mentioned...

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BIRD'S EYE VIEW

By The Hawk Traffic Confusion The annual dinner and dance of the London centre of the Institute of Traffic Administration is...

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BY ASHLEY TAYLOR,

A.1411.1.R.T.E., AssocInst. T, Hydraulic Rescue PORTABLE hydraulic equipment designed to force apart wedged doors, or to open...

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. . there is a periodical need for hauliers to reassure themselves of their own existence'

M OST organizations have a coherent policy which they would be prepared to set out at length if the appropriate challenge came....

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Insurance Claims

WHEN a commercial vehicle is involved in an accident vv the operator will incur more financial loss than the actual repair of...

FROM THE POSTBAG

A Staffordshire reader asks for an analysis of the operating costs of an eight-wheeler as a basis on which to formulate tonnage...

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MONEY MATTERS

Cheer from Transport Development Group V EN a broker said to me "T.D.G. marches on" ie summed up simply and in a nutshell the...

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IN YOUR OPINION

Serial Numbers on Trailer Chassis THE practice of stamping serial numbers on all trailer chassis (The Commercial Motor,...