ATKINSON • FODEN • E.R.F. • SCAMMELI O NLY TEN MONTHS since Rolls-Royce entered the automotil arena with a blaze of publicity...

There are nearly as many trucks made in this country as in the rest of Europe put together. We are the second largest producer...

At home, with air and rail interests chasing the same business as ourselves, it's vitally important that the road transport...

There is a pronounced trend to bigger trucks throughout the transport industry. Economics and common sense make it inevitable....

It is forecast that in five years' time, vehicle output at the heavy end of the scale will be nearly double that of today....

e Rolls-Royce company is, as 'ye come to expect, making anier contribution to Britain's export ve with its diesel engines for...

mixed freight haulage company in stern Canada, who have been ng the new diesel engine made by Oil Engine Division of Rollswee...

le of the aspects of the Eagle Diesel gine which will please Transport mister Barbara Castle is that the erve power of the...

iote from the proud driver of a ills-Royce powered 30 ton truck, !rheard in a transport cafe at mpeth : "She's the best I've...

T HE NEWS that four truck manufacturers now include the RollsRoyce Eagle range in their engine options might have caused a bare...

T HE EAGLE made by RollsRoyce, which is now being offered as an option by four of Britain's leading manufacturers of heavy...

N ORMAN PARRY, Managing Director, Rolls-Royce Oil Engine Division, in reply to a question on the research facilities of the...

L IKE many public bodies in this hustling world the Road Haulage Association is facing two particular personnel problems....

By H. Brian Cottee A DESIRE to reassure the Minister of Transport—and the public—that the State-owned THC is playing no part...

By lain Sherriff D ESIGNED to ease handling and speed vehicle turn-round, a new 40,000 sq.ft. distribution warehouse for...

A FIVE-PRONGED attack on long distance road freight is embodied in the West German govern ment's latest transport plans. There...

"I AM sure that the Minister's proposals have the sole object of eliminating substantial elements of the private sector of the...

H ALVE loading time and, in a typical instance, there would be a 30 per cent saving on wages—the equivalent of 10 per cent on...

S PECIAL articulated vehicles each able to carry 60 crushed cars are to be employed to feed Britain's first operational...

RESPONDING TO THE CALL (CM, September 29) from the Prices and Incomes Board for views and comments from operators on the...

by lain Sherriff ALL LICENCES granted in connection with work on M6 by Mr. J. Else, the West Midland. LA, will carry similar...

H M CUSTOMS and Excise have issued further details of' the operational arrangements for the extended list of ICDs handling Tut...

DEVELOPMENTS in air freight ing of furniture, the economic advantages of the bulk buying of cartons and packing materials and...

A REMARKABLY CONFIDENT forecast of Freightliner traffic growth was made by Mr. T. J. D. Morris, British Rail's marketing...

A HAULIER admitted in Glasgow last week that a contract between himself and a subsidiary of the giant Colville r - k Steel Co....

i N APPEAL by a Bishop Auckland farmer against a decision by Northern LA Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon was upheld by the Transport...

IN ORDER that they could work in conjunction with the Glasgow-Manchester Freightliner Service, Kaye Goodfellow (Transport...

V OLLOWING an agreement between 'Taylor Woodrow Construction Ltd., two of its agents and objectors last week (COMMERCIAL MOTOR,...

By ERIC WILLOUGHBY S UNDERLAND Corporation's transport manager, Mr. Norman Morton, 1.3 has resigned after a row with the...

RATHER than raise the old-age pensioners' concessionary fare on Glasgow municipal transport services from 2d to 3d the majority...

THE INTRODUCTION of a simplified fare scale is being considered by Reading's transport committee to assist the drivers of its...

access to 'pedestrian roads' M INIBUSES may operate a circular service for central Glasgow shoppers in the future. The...

NEWCASTLE CORPORATION buses made less profit and carried fewer passengers last year, revealed Mr. Frank S. Taylor, its...

B. B. WILSON, contracts executive of British School of Motoring, with responsibilities for commercial vehicle driver training,...

Mr. Harold Nockolds has been appointed managing director of Temple Press Ltd., publishers of Motor/Commercial Motor/Motor Boat...

THE BENEFITS ARE ENORMOUS—THOUGH ROAD TRANSPORT STANDS TO GAIN LEAST, SAYS loT PRESIDENT 46 UBSTANTIAL sums will be 1.3...

JOSEPH SANKEY AND SONS LTD., of Wellington, Shropshire (a sub-group of the giant Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds Group), which...

By R. D. Cater W HEN Dyson introduced the Swedish designed "travelling TIR tilt" in 1966, Felix Wentworth, distribution...

CK.ELETAL and coil-carrying additions LI to the Thompson Trailmobile semitrailer range were shown for the first time on...

entry into a new field By A. J. P. Wilding TN April this year, following the appoint'. ment of a receiver at Dunedin...

CO FAR in this series, emphasis has been IJ placed mainly on the care of the larger, long-distance vehicle, with no mention of...

AN transport projects will be ihr ri prominent among the topics at a Transportation Engineering Conference and Exhibition in...

THE ASLIB TRANSPORT GROUP is organizing a one-day conference on the statistics of transport, their availability, compilation...

A FULLY transistorized sound-level meter, the 1400G, has been introduced by Dawe Instruments. It is contained in a tough...

LATEST addition to the A. Hirst and Son Ltd. Forager range, the Ant, is announced this week. A battery-electric...

BRITISH OLIVETTI announce a range of adding and accounting machines to meet both the current needs based on £sd and the decimal...

ANSWERS to some of the most frequent inquiries addressed to the British Standards Institution about the metric system...

A FURTHER improved Mk. III version of the KEF936 driver-operated sweeping machine is announced by the KEF Group. A quickly...

View BY THE HAWK Don't! RIGHTLY, with breathalyzers in, there has been a spate of drinkand-driving warnings. Nobody need be...

FOUND the article by Janus (COMMERCIAL MOTOR, September 29) not only provocative but old-fashioned. I would have thought that...

I FOLLOW with great interest all the comments and articles in your very excellent magazine concerning Mrs. Castle's new...

AS A YOUNG MAN who earnestly wants to get qualified, and make my career in the transport industry, I was appalled when I...

THE following—entirely my own—may interest your readers: The cold start device on the BMC FGK 40 range is not its best feature,...

TNCREASING congestion in city centres is leading many large distributive and wholesaling organizations to move into the...

30-TON-GROSS ARTIC By A. J. P. Wilding, AMIMechE, MIRTE TN VIEW OF the interest shown in the British market by I Continental...

A A standard work on the first subject is Road Transport Law, price 25s, which is obtainable from: Iliffe Books Ltd., Dorset...

it be used for a farmer dealing in cattle, hay, straw and grain? A It should first be emphasized that the F licence to which...

A Head Wrightson Teesdale Ltd. has re cently designed and built a road/rail vehicle with a load carrying capacity of 150 tons...

ping vehicle pneumatically? If so, has a pneumatic tipping gear been produced? A Yes, it is possible. At one time an...

front of my garage and warehouse slippery. Where can I get advice on how to overcome this problem? A We suggest you write to...

truck fitted with an 18ft body which projects 8ft from the centre of the rear axle. The tailboard when dropped adds 2ft Gin. to...

museum in the North of England? I recollect reading a reference to it in COMMERCIAL MOTOR. A We presume you are referring to...

A Although the intention to issue a new type of personal licence — that is a transport manager's licence—was announced by the...

to a report on containerization by the National Joint Council on Materials Handling. Where can I get a copy and what is the...

By S. Buckley, Assoc lost T Service must be related to cost T HE current development of containerization and the publicity it...

by George Wilmot Road transport in the national economy (I): Size THE MAJORITY of courses in road transport rarely start at...

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