ETTING two hauliers to agree on matters affecting their livelihood is not easy. Getting agreement on tional basis takes longer:...

From our Industrial Correspondent THE Minister of Labour, Mr, Ray Gunter, has decided to give approval to a Wages Regulation...

FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT TT is generally expected that the forth1 coming (June 9-10) negotiations with the Germans for...

LTY-FOUR containers unloaded and men loaded in less than six hours— 'as the work achieved by Sea-Land s.s. "Fairland" when she...

From a Special Correspondent S OUTHEND town council dealt an unexpected blow to road safety this week when it referred back to...

T HE formation of a Bristol vehicle observer corps was unanimously agreed at a meeting sponsored by the Road Haulage...

s expected that at yesterday's first meeting of the new nal council, Mr. P. H. R. Turner would be elected chairman of the Road...

NAFWR president for 1966/7, Mr. George Skelton, director and general manager, Pickfords Ltd., London. N EW ground was broken...

T HE full programme for the tenth congress of the International Road Transport Union (IRU) has now been published by the TRTA,...

R EFERRING to the new selective employment tax at the annual general meeting of the Traders' Road Transport Association, West...

A STRONG indication that the National Union of Railwaymen's national committee might reconsider its decision about freight...

an exhibition held last week at the lirmingharn Engineering Building to publicize Newport Docks as rial enterprises, the main...

T HE annual report and accounts of the Transport Holding Company are due to be published on June 15. Announcing this, Sir...

A T the recent meeting of the RHA international group, consideration was given to difficulties experienced by hauliers in...

P RESIDENT of the Confederation of British Industries, Sir Maurice Laing, paid tribute to the "live, virile and inventive"...

T HE maiden voyage on Friday of the m.v. "Saga" from Gothenburg, arriving at Hull on Sunday, marked the opening of a new...

R EAD in the context of an overall increase in national productivity, railway statistics for the 12 weeks to March 26, 1966...

AF TER many years of trade union pressure a five-day week has been conceded by the main BRS companies to clerical and...

9M OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT iE target date for Mrs. Barbara Castle's White Paper on transport rdination has been fixed for...

IE National Freight Authority would e the pace-setter in co-ordination, !ering and selling new concepts in the operation of...

THE Transport Holding Company's profit from buses—about £7m.—would not be missed if the Chancellor were to say that he would in...

THE Minister of Transport has asked local 'authorities for their views on a proposal designed to cut costs and increase...

James Pollock and Ronald C. Dougal have been appointed directors of Albion Motors Ltd., Glasgow. Mr. Pollock has been factory...

E Transport Tribunal on Wednesday smissed the appeal of Elliott Hauliers hern) Ltd., of York, against the refusal .t Yorkshire...

LRTIAL success attended the efforts of a lanchester haulier in an application on Tuesday by the North Western tsing Authority,...

T HE Western Licensing Authority has written to Stoke St. Michael Transport Ltd., with copies to the many objectors to the...

T HERE were 1,533,000 vehicles with icarriers' licences in the United Kingdom at September 30 last, an increase of 13,000 over...

MAJOR reconstitution of the A and B licences of Pointer Transport Services and their subsidiaries, is apparent i the large...

materials' bids A marathon hearing is likely no IDS by a large number of East Midland hauliers to carry tippable materials in...

A NT application by Thomas Mitchell (Haulage) Ltd., of Ettrick Bridge, Hawick, for a new A licence and an A licence variation...

uts LTB Services Jeopardy' OM OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT EE London Transport Board has given otice that it is ready to...

TIE Government acted this week to give 'London Transport definite aid, in line with that given to the railways, to meet its...

M OTHER municipal operator to order Bristol bus chassis is Luton Corporation Transport, which has chosen the RELL model for its...

A JOINT committee representing transport, craft and clerical unions has been set up to investigate and discuss the offer by the...

T HE banning of cars from town centres, in an attempt to ease traffic congestion, was unthinkable, stated Mr. W. M. Dravers,...

The new job tax would cost the company no more than the loss of interest on money which had to be paid over to the Government...

B EFORE any too drastic action of a compulsory or prohibitory nature was taken against the use by the private motorist of his...

THE first vehicle to be equipped with R. W. INorde rubber suspension applied to twin.rive tandem axles has been announced by he...

THE title of the bus-building division of The Daimler Co. Ltd. has been changed to Daimler Transport Vehicles Ltd. as from May...

CREDIT-CARD system for use by commercial vehicle drivers has been introduced by Ford Motor Co. Offered through 150 dealers, in...

A WIDER range of fluorescent materials and wider colour limits are likely to be usable for advance warning triangles following...

A NEW vehicle washing machine and chemicals were demonstrated last week at the Point Pleasant, Wandsworth, fuel-oil terminal of...

THE index to Volume 122 of COMMERCIAL MOTOR (August, 1965-January, 1966) is now available and can be obtained from Temple Press...

HAVE covered the emergency valve and how it works in conjunction with the tiler relay valve to apply the trailer brakes the...

Part 8—The Tractor Protection Valve on the non-pressure side, the diverter valve venting through the side of its top cover and...

Mr. D. 1 Bowman. of Billington, nr. Blackburn, Lancs. He points out that when refitting a front hub it is sometimes difficult...

July 5 and 6 there will be a symposium on diesel engines—breathing and combustion, at the Advanced School of Automobile...

A NEW electric chain hoist known as the Colossus has been announced by Anderson Clyde Engineers Ltd.. which features a...

T WO new batteries are announced by Exide for use with the Ford Transit range of commercial vehicles. The units, which have...

M ACHINE-welded, lightweight, I-section main frame members made in high-tensile steel for use in semi-trailer construction are...

T HE latest Hubometer hub-type mileage recorder announced by Speedograph Ltd. is a fully sealed weatherproof unit housed in a...

EDESIGNED nylon end shoes are a feature of :a new Golmet IX vehicle shutter, the shoes being so constructed that they interlock...

A NEW booklet called "Repair of drums and tanks—explosion and fire risk" outlines the dangers of repairing drums if the safety...

s to blame? BY DEREK MOSES ore attractive basic designs from leading bodybuilders needed 'HERE are two factors affecting the...

n ew BY THE HAWK . eran Vicissitudes .THOUGH the absence of an issue of COMMERCIAL Moron last week prevented our reporting...

S INCE the first Mechanical Handling Exhibition was held in 1948, the number of exhibitors and the floor space occupied have...

W HAT can one say about a semitrailer that has not been said before? That is a question which seems inescapable when evaluating...

(FIE extent to which an engine is overcooled for a period or continuously, is :ctly related to the temperature of the • lant....

OWDER tankers designed to carry a maximum payload of 19 tons on an outfit of 32 tons g.t.w. are now in regular operation by...

rHE year that ended on March 31 last was a good one for I BET OMNIBUS services. Pre-tax profits jumped to £1,282.560 om...

By H. Brian Cottee T ?TODAY. Friday, the last four containers in a two-way US/UK door-to-door freight experiment are due to...

W HILE the big container experiment was taking place, another development in transatlantic freight was successfully...

G ROW IN G delays in Customs clearance of inwards TIR traffic at Southampton and Felixstowe, of up to five days in some cases,...

00LITICS is the art of the obvious. Time and again recently we have been told, as if it were a new discovery, that productivity...

PART "I Report on recent conference at Dusseldorf is continued here with comments on urban transport training A EUROPEAN...

By George Wilmot Lecturer in Transport Studies, University of London Industrial Studies—Their Value, and a Look at the Brick...