)yson are trailer engineers. Not ler manufacturers you notice. 'railer engineers. 'here's a difference. And it's not just...

If we had a hat we'd throw it in the air to signify our relief at the commonsense caution shown by the Ministry of Transport...

Britain questions value of strict new international rules on medical checks for drivers from our Geneva correspondent •...

• The Road Haulage Association has appointed a full-time industrial relations officer (foreshadowed in CM December 6) to sort...

• The senior partner in the firm of Binder, Hamlyn and Co., chartered accountants, Mr. A. G. B. Burney, has been named by the...

traffic rules • Miles Druce and Co. Ltd., a leading firm of steel stockholders and distributors, has acquired A. Packham and...

• Negotiations are continuing between Standard Realty Investors' Corporation, of the United States, and Burnholme and Forder...

'rider the name of the Wrexham and hire Group Transport Training Asson some 20 hauliers in this area have tly got together in a...

ncer Boss Ltd., the forklift and side-s r truck manufacturer, this week signed: tract with Allis-Chalmers of Americas will...

iublic inquiry is to be held into objecpinst the proposed increases in the :oad Bridge tolls. The inquiry, before ::. Anderson...

I February 10 the Tipping Group, r London started operations, the cornhaving selected from a list of 168 ints, 48 members...

• Transport functions had been performed in isolation from marketing considerations too often in the past. Under the control...

• General and Commercial Motor Insurance Company—a broker oriented company and a member of the Vehicle and General...

• To meet critical sizes and loading requirements, Marshall has developed for the John Lewis Partnership a special Luton body...

Materials handling • "Materials handling today" is the title of a one-day symposium being held jointly by the Institute of...

ul Brockington roups of enthusiastic p.s.v. and road 3ort engineers performed a series of ations of electronic control...

Hugh McPartlan has been appointed road operations manager for the British Steel Corporation's central transport department. Mr....

TOO CLOSE TO INDUSTRY,' SAYS MR MARSH from our Industrial correspondent • Four union leaders nominated by the TUC for...

)1 . London Transport erek Moses kn important break-through for Marof Cambridge (Engineering) Ltd. is the of an order from the...

• It was announced last week that Barr and Wallace Arnold Trust, of Leeds, had purchased the Evan Evans group of coach...

• Bus operators wishing to apply for • • standard bus grants or rural bus subsi • dies have complained to CM that...

• Delivery to Newcastle City Transport next year of 30 Leyland Atlantean double-deckers with 33ft Alexander front-entrance...

• The Wiles Group Ltd. have made a formal offer for the Provincial Traction Co. Ltd., whose subsidiaries include the...

municipal Threat to small hauliers buses • In the summer municipal bus undertakings could raise a large amount of revenue...

• In order to assist with urgent daywork Cleary Contractors Ltd., Solihull, appeared successfully before the West Midland...

-• Cook Contractors Ltd., of Galashiels, had one vehicle removed from its B licence for four months under Section 178 in...

Leyland/Albion distributors are specially equipped to maintain and repair Leyland/Albion trucks. Leyland trucks are precise...

You will get advice from men who really understand the business. Truck operation is not a simple business. There's a lot to...

Leyland automotive training is considered in many countries to be just about the best training you can get. Britain's no...

Don't just think of him as a name on the bottom of an advertisement or an address on a list. He's only there for one...

Fit them. Always. It's no good adding a weak link to a strong chain. Leylands and Albions are built for reliability — each...

Let's face it — it can happen. And it needn't even be your driver's fault. There he is, driving steadily along, then some...

1. Haulage, of Eyemouth, was repriby the Scottish LA, Mr. A. B. Birnie, urgh on Monday for breach of regularolving the...

• The North Western Traffic Commissioners in a written decision have granted the North Western Road Car Co. Ltd. permission...

• The Transport Tribunal in a written judgment has given reasons for its dismissal of the appeal by Barnett and Graham Ltd....

• The North Western LA, Mr. C. R. Hodgson, adjourned an application by Mrs. J. Litherland of Lymm for a new B licence in...

North Western LA, Mr. C. R. Hodgson, public inquiry in Manchester on Monhear a number of applications for :rm B licences for...

• Heavy Transport (ECC) Ltd., of Par, Cornwall, a subsidiary of the English China Clay Group, has recently taken delivery of...

• A patented means of connecting compressor and power-turbine shafts to reduce fuel consumption at part-load, where the gas...

Jay trailers ID more new models have been added Quay trailer range. The 3020 flat-plat0-ton g.c.w. unit employs 201n. deep ted...

• A new range of semi-trailers, named Advance, for payloads from 3 tons to 26 tons is to be introduced shortly by Primrose...

• A larger capacity fuel tank, which increases operating range by over 50 per cent, has been introduced as a regular...

4anpower, maintenance !nd the MoT (31) by Handyman It's an easy mistake to set one's hts too high when advertising for ff:...

38-ton --gross a rtic ONE of the more important models to be introduced by a European manufacturer in 1968 was the Scania 110...

d question: why is the Transport ers' Club not represented on the ort Managers' Licence Committee? I the immediate answer is...

iatcher had a rather startling answer question. What would she do with she became Minister of Transport d me some buyers!"...

The news that Duple is well advanced with plans to transfer all coach manufacture from Hendon to Blackpool and substantially to...

The more I hear about haulage and hauliers, the more I am fascinated by the industry's * Pioneer collection I suppose all...

WITH the introduction of fresh legislation and increasing vigilance on its enforcement, vehicle operators will be impelled to...

A CHEQUE for over £53,000 changed hands on Monday on the snow-covered circulating area of the Birmingham Containerbase at...

Elm powers granted to the National ht Corporation in section 2 of the Tort Act 1968 are so wide-ranging it is inconceivable...

Dummy run IN those self-confident days when the Transport Bill was still at an early stage of its passage through Parliament...

Transport Act, 1968, will fail in its lose if more goods are not carried by The Freightliner network is increasing even though...

Freightliner netk. In view of Government policy on borne traffic have you any figures show the development of the French gourou...

concerning the new London Transport "satellite" standee buses. One of the failings of these buses is the absence of handrails...

made to the duties of p.s. v. drivers under the provisions of the Public Service Vehicles (Conduct of Drivers, Conductors and...

ages in other areas, hauliers sometimes get asked to undertake essentially "local" jobs far from their base. Are they entitled...

IT IS always easy to let enthusiasm for an idea get out of hand so that the original concept becomes distorted. Last week I...

n\ff Tyres THERE appears to be a tendency these days to create standards to which drivers and their vehicles must comply. It...