easier, quicker-to-build vehicle bodies that make more profit for you Impalco-Rib—better wear, better looks, less...

passenger operators will be focused for some time in the immediate future on Government plans for road transport. These plans...

A WEST COUNTRY traffic clearing house set up last month by 16 hauliers is proving successful, and four new members have...

A THREE-DAY symposium on "Cost efficiency in road transport management" is being held at the Hackwood Hotel, Bromley, Kent,...

T'HE possibility of an inland clearance depot A in the Croydon area is being investigated by the Croydon Chamber of Commerce....

Fr HE proposed 7 per cent settlement, under the Wages Council procedure, for 200,000 workers in the private sector of the road...

THE Dundee family firm of Allison's Transport A. (Contracts) Ltd. is likely to become a public company. Mr. James Allison,...

All types to reach same efficiencies by 1972 T HE Ministry of Transport this week circulated to interested bodies the braking...

A GENERAL campaign by the agricultural hauliers group of the Road Haulage Association to improve productivity in the transport...

TRTA MEETING ON DRIVERS' PAY 4,41cr 0 transport operation is truly effi cient unless there is active and positive co-operation...

T HE Transport Ferry Service has placed an order with Swan Hunter and Wigharn Richardson for a new roll-on/roll-off ship which...

T HE EEC Commission has asked the Council to authorize an inquiry into the wages paid by the road transport industry. It would...

NEW clearance depot has been set up at Cadenazzo by Sviluppo Traffici Internazional. The depot will provide a great impetus to...

a decision to restrict them to the city limits) the Aberdeen eliminating round of the Lorry Driver of the Year competition has...

FROM OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT H EAVY goods vehicles (over 3 tons unladen), articulated vehicles, and all vehicles drawing...

T HE following meetings will be held by IRU in Geneva later this month: April 18, International Technical Commission; April...

will be carried by road tanker to Glasgow for disposal at sea as a measure to safeguard the Blane Water which flows into the...

A LTHOUGH recent discussions with Lord Brown, Minister of State at the Board of Trade, had not given any hope that a change in...

T HE information service to port users covering the Gladstone, Hornby and Alexandra docks of the Mersey Docks and Harbours...

I aw ' FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Transporter chief complains about union official C HIEF of a car transporter firm, Mr....

has been announced by Dolton Transport Ltd., of Redditch, that as from April 14 they are paying the "Birmingham differential",...

TWO strikes of' TGWU members which' have resulted in many of the 250 Esso garages in the Birmingham area being without petrol...

T HE Metropolitan Licensing Authority, Mr. D. I. R. Muir, has decided to suspend 20 vehicles belonging to FMC (Meat) Ltd. and...

Alloa last week the Scottish deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. L. A. Wells, suspended one vehicle of Stalker Bros., of Tullibody,...

THE Scottish Traffic Commissioners have 'granted permission to David MacBrayne Ltd. to increase certain bus fares by an average...

178 inquiry at I—I Birmingham, Red House Motor Services Ltd., of Coventry, had three of their 13 vehicles licensed in the...

A PLYING for new express services to the Butlins Holiday Camp at Barry Island from the Birmingham area on behalf of Flights...

O Npage 31 of the March 25 issue of this journal, in "Licensing Casebook", it was stated that Sparkhill Motor Haulage was...

W ITH the entry , of the Manx Traffic Commissioners into the scene, coach operators in the Island appear likely to find...

Birkett and Roberts Limited make Champion Bread and Cakes, and like any Company going places, they're quick to seize on...

Q 0 impressed is London Transport with the performance of its eight experimental Daimler Eleetline double-deckers that it has...

T E first of 200 double-deck buses for Teheran was officially handed over to His Excellency Parviz Jahanbini, President of...

improved train -aservices on the newly electrified Euston line of British Railways, London Transport has published a special...

A TTEM A TTEM PT'S to avoid a repetition of the PTS strike by 1,700 Midland Red bus crews last Saturday were being made this...

WE regret to report the death, at 64, of Mr. " Harold Charles Drayton, chairman of the British Electric Traction Co. Ltd. His...

to continue to press for the re - establishment of a Kimpton-Peter's GreenLuton rural bus service, which was taken off last...

JOINT BOARDS INEVITABLE? A THOUGH lots of people yearn for a job to keep themselves interested when the official retirement...

THE transport department of Edinburgh 1- Corporation is now introducing the first of its new vehicles purchased under the plan...

A BUS driver who challenged Glasgow Corporation's closed shop principle and tried to form his own breakaway union (COMMERCIAL...

T HE State bus undertaking of Trinidad and Tobago —the Public Transport Service Corporationhas ordered 109 AEC Reliance...

Transatlantic interest in Hope device rONSIDERABLE interest by Canadians and Americans in his anti-jack-knifing device for...

DA F 5 cwt. pick-up with Variomatic transmission gives 38 m.p.g. on stop-start work rr HE vehicles operated by Hall Farm I...

HERE'S THE PROVEN EFFICIENCY OF THE 'BIG J' CAB. 'Big J cabs have logged over 200,000 miles under searching conditions to prove...

Fork-lift tractive unit from Ulster A study of jack-knifing accidents RECENT study of accidents in Warwickshire involving...

A major extension of the King George Dock at Hull, costing £6.75m., and large-scale improvements of dock facilities at...

RK is to start this month on widening both carriageways of the Lancaster by-pass on M6 from two to three lanes and will take...

R IGHTLY or wrongly, for several reasons the relay valve seems to be on the receiving end of comment or criticism from motor...

rr HIS week's prizewinner is Mr. S. A. Toase, of Bilton, Harrogate, Yorks. His idea concerns the removal and refitting of the...

A GREASE gun has been specially developed by Tecalemit to accommodate prepacked cartridges of soft, fibrous or adhesive...

T HE latest edition of the Trader Handbook, the popular "buyers' guide" for the vehicle industry, has just been published by...

9- , WO new standard designs of tipper body have been announced by The British Aluminium Co. Ltd., Norfolk House, St. James's...

A NEW range of Oldham high-performance commercial-vehicle batteries, designated Compact, is produced in three sizes of...

NEW 24-page booklet has been published by the Automobile Association, giving details of more than 200 hotels in London. The...

A FASTENER known as Tap-It can be used for the attachment of linings, signs, door hinges and internal wiring and for the...

A NEW hydraulic motor unit which incorporates a 5-to-1 planetary gear reduction gearbox is being manufactured by Adan...

ALTHOUGH the Bedford KD 5-tonner is not a new model it is significant that its performance is as good, if not better, than some...

C HANGES are in contemplation for companies, as the Government has recently introduced a bill for this purpose. At this stage,...

View BY THE HAWK First-hand Comments wHO would fly a bus driver 900 miles to check that he approved YV the cab layout of a...

BY P. A. C. BROCKINGTON AMI.Mech.E ILST a number of users of self-unloading, demountable container equipment transport...

Rhondda setback LA ST year was not a good one for RHONDDA TRANSPORT CO. " Pre-tax profits declined to £52,254 from £80,375...

B OTH the chairman of the Road Haulage Association and the president of the Traders Road Transport Association have given a...

F UNDAMENTALLY there is little difference between driving in England and in any other country. One steers, makes use of the...

Keeping down the cost of operating a commercial vehicle to a minimum must be done with an eye to its revenue-earning capacity...

York Trailer Service Ltd. Cap. £100. Objects: To carry on the business of motor engineers, etc. Dirs.: F. W. Davies, York...

M AY is the big month for the written transport examinations. The Institute of Transport holds both its graduateship and...