A simple electro-magnetic braking device has enabled Shearings Pleasureways Holidays Limited to streamline maintenance...

The proposed £4 per year licence fee for each vehicle specified on an operator's licence is a monstrous imposition. Unless...

EXPRESS CARRIERS CHARGES RISE • Since the beginning of 1969 the costs of express carriers of parcels and small consignments...

• The Ax-Way load-sensing device which utilizes strain gauges to convert spring deflection into weight readings electrically is...

RHA ADVISES SPEEDY ACTION FOR '0' LICENCE OBJECTIONS O A need for speedy action by members is stressed by the Road Haulage...

from our Parliamentary correspondent • The road is not yet clear for 44-ton goods vehicles. MPs critical of the suggestion...

• Luton Corporation Transport will almost certainly be the first municipal passenger transport undertaking to be sold to the...

icence Forth tolls • A flat rate of £4 per vehicle per year is proposed for operators' licence fees, the Minister of Transport...

• Some of the complexities arising from recent planning and land legislation were unravelled by Mr. I. R. Toms—the...

• A junior management course, aimed at recruiting and encouraging school leavers, has been instituted by the Manchester...

• An Anglo-Italian meeting is to be held early next year to review the operation of the bilateral transport agreement between...

• The transport depot of John McKay Ltd., Western Road, Montrose, Angus. employing nine drivers and three maintenance men, in...

• Yesterday the first of a series of one-day seminars on - Minimizing the impact and cost of the 1967 Road Safety Act and the...

• Mr. Ronald Ellis performed his first public task as newly appointed chairman of Leyland Motors (Scotland) Ltd. and Albion...

• A controlling interest in the Northern Trailer Co. Ltd., Northern Trailer Sales Ltd. and Northern Truck Distributors Ltd. has...

• Overseas Containers Ltd. and Associated Container Transportation, who have been operating their UK-Australia container...

• Descending from a wagon at Britain's biggest quarry—Tunstead in the Peak District of Derbyshire—after sheeting the vehicle, a...

• Richmond Metal Co. Ltd., metal merchants, of Crisp Road, Hammersmith, were awarded £4,000 damages and costs in the High Court...

Engine testing • In his foreword to - The Testing of Internal Combustion Engines", Sir Harry Ricardo writes: "The second...

• The failure of the Coventry transportation and highways committee to proceed with a bus priority traffic scheme has aroused...

• A new coach body for the Bedford VAS chassis was displayed for the first time at the recent exhibition of luxury coaches by...

bus golden jubilee • An historic occasion—the golden jubileei trolleybus operation on Teesside—passe without any official...

• Seven police cars and 10 officers surrounded a bus in only minutes when the two-way radio system being fitted in Newcastle...

• Following the setting up of the Tyneside Passenger Transport Authority on April 1. Mr. Fred Mulley, Minister of Transport,...

• London Transport has announced that • a one-man operated double-deck • bus will replace the existing single • decker on route...

• Despite some teething troubles Edinburgh Corporation Transport has achieved substantial success from its introduction of...

• Bermuda Motor Services Ltd., of Nuneaton. Warwicks, which was established in 1924 with three local stage carriage services...

How important are past costs in budgeting for the future operation of vehicles? In next week's instalment of the special series...

• A fleet of double-deck Neoplan Scenicruiser 80-seat coaches is to be introduced by Southbound Tours Ltd, of London, to carry...

• The question whether on-site vehicles should be considered as road-running vehicles was raised in Glasgow on Monday when D....

• An application by a Taunton haulage contractor for a B licence variation was partly successful this week. The Western LA,...

• Robert Miller (Contractors) Ltd., of Bridge of Weir, failed to appear before the Scottish LA. Mr. A. B. Birnie, in Glasgow on...

• The appeal by G. Stiller (Transport) •Ltd the longest for several years, ended in Lando on Friday after 44 days. The...

• Two Rhondda Transport Company bu: conductors were each fined E30 with £1 advocate's fees at Ystrad magistrates' cour last...

• The Northern LA, Mr. John Hanlon, granted an application by T. N. Hall (Transport and Supplies) Ltd., of Burnopfield, Co....

• Plaistow Transport Ltd.. of Essex. was grant two artics on A licence conditioned "general goo within 40 miles" by Mr. 0, I....

Yorkshire APPLICATIONS November 5 Ensign Tankers Ltd., Thornton Dale. New A lic. 11 veh. 1109-14), 1 art. (1 1 t). Liquids and...

• A petition signed by 3,700 people asking or the fares application by the East Kent Road Car Co. to be rejected was handed to...

• A Ministry of Transport vehicle examiner said at a Section 178 inquiry at Eastbourne last week that it was a pity there was...

• Larrow Transport (Northern) Ltd. pleaded guilty to three offences contrary to Section 164 of the Road Traffic Act 1960...

• A "gentlemen's agreement" between tw Newcastle upon Tyne hauliers contained a irregularity, the Northern LA, Mr. John Hanlor...

• Reporting that 955 vehicles were weight by Cumberland County Council last yei mostly on its weighbridge on A6 betwet Penrith...

• An entirely new production range of curtain-sided semi-trailers, claimed to revolutionize the user-application of such units,...

• Shown for the first time at the Scottish Motor Show this week is the prototype Crane Fruehauf platform skeletal 44-ton...

Loads and forces (26) • Earlier in this series I showed how difficult it is to estimate speed—without reference to the...

• The refrigeration division of Petters Ltd., Hamble, a Hawker Siddeley company, has introduced a new range of low-cost...

• Wessex Industries, through a newly formed subsidiary company known as Stephens Industrial Vehicles Ltd., have acquired from...

• A new Midlands sales, rental and service centre for Yale industrial trucks has been opened by the Yale Materials Handling...

• One of the mobile training schools of th Magirus-Deutz factory will visit Great Britai in January and conduct training...

• Hanger Engineering of Warwick has launch ed a new container for the transport an storage of liquids. The Liquitainer, a...

transport enthusiasts, one of the pleasures of the Scottish Motor Show is the mrvival of hand coachpaintin g , especially For...

WITH THE EXHIBITION of recently announced 44-ton tractive units this Scottish Show has created more interest among people...

• The first training vehicle to be handed over by the Road Transport Industry Training Board to a Scottish group was presented...

THE DEMAND for tippers in Scotland far exceeds the supply of suitable chassis. And the typical operator will currently accept...

THE AVAILABILITY of parking or garage space is a primary consideration in the choice of sites for depots, area offices and...

As John Darker in his article (CM October 31) associated me with the NAFWR president's criticism of the RTITB. I would...

NEWS of containerization across the Irish Sea—said to be the cradle of unitization in Europe and certainly the birthplace of...

Having dealt with the future, as far as containerization is concerned, on the Irish Sea. a look at the container situation on...

Exercising the veto Whether compulsory or optional the financial effect is the same. The operator will have to pay an...

ANY management technique that covers more than a quarter of Britain's employed workers, and which is growing rapidly, must have...

was some disagreement about the word "use" which appears in various regulations. Could you advise on the correct interpretation...

equipment on view - it the Scottish Show have not been seen at previous commercial vehicle exhibitions; and there are, of...

\ with Ron Cater • A visit to the Royal Dairy Show at Olympia left me quite impressed with the advances made in the...

Grip additive Shown for the first time--on the AC Delco stand—is a new spray-on liquid said to triple tyre traction on ice and...