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15th March 1963
15th March 1963
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Docks P rogress T HE setting - up of a central body to advise

the Government on the docks dilemma will be warmly welcomed by everyone who sends vehicles to virtually any dock in Great...

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Operators May Help With Research

FROM OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT TRANSPORT operators are likely soon I to get an invitation from the Ministry to assist in...

Hauliers' Remarkable Achievement

T HE road haulage industry could hardly fail to be shown up in a good light when the true facts and figures arc made known...

Dispute Over New Schedules

rA A DISPUTE between drivers employed by Dents Transport (Spennymoor) Ltd., of Tudhoe Colliery, County Durham, and the managing...

Weights and Sizes— Everyone Agrees

By a Special Correspondent WHEN representatives of the National VT Road Transport Federation and Society of Motor Manufacturers...

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Hauliers' Tax Burden

H AULIERS must be the Chancellor of the Exchequer's favourite sons of toil, said Mr. R. B. Brittain, the chairman of the...

Loads By Appointment' at Docks

FROM OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT T HE loading and unloading of goods " by appointment" at Britain's docksides will be among...

No Agreement On E.E.C. Programme

FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT T HE idea of an agreed, all-embracing action programme for transport in the E.E.C. has virtually...

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York Conversion Scheme

A COMPREHENSIVE conversion scheme to enable trailers to be engthened and/or widened, or changed rom single axle to tandem, has...

B.R. Hopes Pinned on 'Liner Trains'

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT DR1TISH RAILWAYS experts arc pressing full steam ahead with their plans for the...

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'Nationalizing Pipelines by Back Door'

ENTY-TWO Tory M.P.s have r tabled a motion, bluntly headed Nationalization of Pipelines ", expressin g concern at the a g...

In the Pious e This Week

MR. MARPLES was asked in the IV". Commons this week to ensure that all road vehicles transporting coal were sheeted down to...

Coal Depots Cove red by Shops Bill W HAT Mr. John

Hare, the Minister of Labour, described as an outstanding chan g e was last week made in the Offices, Shops and Railway...

Motorway Safety Measures Revealed A TRIAL of further methods of

I - 1 preventing dazzle is now being considered by the Ministry of Transport, but the department cannot yet say on which...

No Charge for Escorts WHEN Mr. Simon Win g field Di g by VI'

(Cons., Dorset West) su gg ested in the Commons last week that there should be a char g e for thc cost of police escorts for...

Fewer Accidents S INCE 1960 there had been a year by

year drop in the number of goods vehicles over 30 cwt. unladen wei g ht involved in fatal and serious accidents, reported Mr....

Covent Garden Report T HE Covent Garden Market Authority has probably

received by now the professional consultants' report on where the new market should be built. Lord St. Oswald, Joint...

Lights Test Rejected

IT would not be appropriate to consider an annual test of li g htin g e q uipment on all vehicles over 30 cwt. separately from...

No Tanker Regulations M R. MARPLES last week turned down a

suggestion . that he should introduce special safety re g ulations for road tanker vehicles. He was not aware of any need for...

Dr. Beeching's Report nR. BEECHING'S plan for railway Li reorganization

was "far too good a report not to publish it ", commented Mr. John Hay when M.P.s questioned him last week about railway...

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Tribunal Reserves Judgment on Bristol Fruit Traffic

THE Transport Tribunal in London on 1. Tuesday reserved judgment in an appeal against the Western Licensing Authority's grant...

Siddle Cook Grant Cut

A N appeal by Stutter Bros. Ltd. and Robert Wynn and Son Ltd. against the grant of an A licence by the Northern Licensing...

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Cook's B Revival Bid Rejected . A BID by Siddle C.

Cook -Ltd., of Consett (Co. Durham) to resuscitate a four-vehicle B licence conditioned for the carriage of goods for the...

Licence Plans for Midlands Holidays

N EWproblems had been created for the coach operator with the introduction of staggered industrial holidays in the Midlands,...

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Meat Haulier Needed A Licences

IF a Gloucester meat haulier was to remain in business and serve its substantial number of meat customers it was essential...

Continental Tours Appeal Dismissed I N a written decision the

Minister of Transport has dismissed an appeal by Foxall and Sons Ltd., of Bridgnorth. Shropshire, against the decision of the...

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Alexander-bodied Fleetlines for Midland Red

Z,','EEN in the accompanying photograph is one of 50 Daimler Fleetline doubleleckers with bodywork by Walter klexander and Co....

Traffic Co-ordination Essential

T HE restriction of city fraffic mainly to public transport was forecast as a future necessity by Sir Herbert J. Manzoni, chief...

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London Bus Strike a Real Possibility

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT THE London bus pay talks are rapidly L nearing crisis point and unless an improved offer is...

Increased Greyhound Business •

A MERICA'S Greyhound Corp operated 508 m. bus miles in 19623'8 per cent more than in 1961. Passengei miles increased by 8-9 per...

Ceylon's Troubles Not Over

T HE Ceylon Transport Board ha decided to carry out recommends tions by an Indian Transport Study Tear that the...

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Mr. F. Collins has been appointed the district manager of

the Birmingham district of BR.S., succeeding Mr. S. W. Mack who is retiring. Since 1949 Mr. Collins has been Birmingham branch...

Institute of Transport's New President THE council of the Institute

of Trans'''. port has elected as president for 1963-64 Mr. Keith Granville, member of the board of British Overseas Airways...

Dyson Renames Continental

B ECAUSE the Dyson Aeroride Continental tandam-axle semi-trailer has features which make it particularly suitable for...

E.R.F. Buys Jennings

T HE Cheshire bodybuilding company of J. H. Jennings and Sons has been acquired by E.R.F. for about £250,000 cash. Jennings has...

Better Days for Daimler and Guy

D URING the year ended July 31, 1962, Daimler buses captured over 60 per cent of ali the advertised municipal bus contracts and...

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Plastics Van Top for Morris Pick-ups

P LASTICS high-roof van bodies for fitting to Morris Mini-Minor and Morris 1000 pick-ups are being produced by Fabricated...

Road Tax Hin ders Industry

rXCESSIVELY high taxation on road use is one reason why industry is reluctant to set up new factories in the North, says the...

Automotive Products Spares Centre

L' QUIPPED to deal quickly and effici ently with the 90,000-plus differen parts currently in use, a new service an spares...

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■ Iews About Plastics

'HE Lamellon range of resins manu factured by N. V. Billiton Chernie, it Dutch concern, is to be marketed in itain by a newly...

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Transistors in Lucas Equipment

VARIOUS developments in vehicle V electrical equipment employing transistors were announced yesterday by Joseph Lucas Ltd., at...

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Saves Filling

IS NEW item of greasing equipment – I will be available from Step Industrial iquipment Ltd., Berkhamsted, Hens, t the end of...

Liquid-cooled Disc Brakes I rom G.M.C.

\ DISC brake provided with a liquid "Xcooling circuit is shown in patent No. .0,098. (General Motors Corp., Detroit, iich.,...

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EVEN THE THEI

ETER GAVE UP! Taking a load of furniture to I-winter by NORMAN H. TILSLEY I DID not appreciate just what I was letting myself...

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Front Corner and Sid( flarker Lamps

D LAING the past 12 months many steps have been taken to change the pattern of lighting of commercial vehicles. Some of the...

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Marker Lamps on the Market

-4 0NFLISION about some aspects of the regulations for front corner and ide marker lamps seems widespread mong all sections of...

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To confirm this, the position was dis;ussed with Ministry of

Transport engileering staff concerned in the compilation )f the regulations and, although the vfinistry officials stressed that...

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Bird's Eye View

I HEAR from Mr. G. F. Williamson, traffic operating manager of Hoveringham Gravels, that the company's scheme for short-term...

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IN YOUR OPINION

rransport in the Background I HAVE read the article by Mr. D. E. A. Pettit in the March 1 issue of The Commercial Motor with...

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lual-purpose Coaches

THE coachbuilding division of Appleard of Leeds Ltd. has recently produced couple of special dual-purpose coaches which a...

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JANUS

WRITES W ORDS are the stock-in-trade of the politician, and like . many another huckster he too easily comes to . forget the...

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To Own or To Hire?

r HE contentious issues which are now being discussed and decided, relative to the transfer from contract-A to open A licences,...