Too many people seem bent on making an unhappy situation worse, to judge from the news of strike threats and rumblings and...

LIVERPOOL STRIKE THREAT: WAGES COUNCIL FOLLOWS PIB PROPOSALS from our industrial correspondent • In Liverpool this week,...

d river by John Darker • As road haulage trade unions prepare for "crunch" discussions with managements over 40 mph,...

• The Government has agreed to halve the 10s toll charge for buses using the Tay road bridge, enabling the 7d surcharge on...

doubledecker chassis recently entered service with Great Yarmouth Corporation Transport. They are fitted with 39-seat Marshall...

timetable was rejected from our political correspondent • Conservatives and Liberals were outraged when the decision to limit...

• Mrs. Castle should withdraw Parts V, VI and VII (licensing, haulage charges and drivers hours) of the Transport Bill pending...

by John Darker • The likely pattern of timber handling and distribution in the next decade was revealed at a Press conference...

from our political correspondent • The NEDC — and the Cabinet—has been asked by Mrs. Castle to assume that, in the long term,...

• The "timetable" motion to cut short the Committee stage of the Transport Bill was tabled on Wednesday by Mr. Richard...

• Mrs. Castle's estimate of the cost of her Transport Bill (£55m a year—CM last week) was based on completely out-of-date...

• Three hundred transport workers in the North Staffs action group called this week for a one-day strike in protest against the...

is increasing its road standard haulage rates for milk from the farm on April 1. It is no longer possible, the board states, to...

COMMON PROBLEMS REVEALED IN FIRST I OT OVERSEAS LECTURE • Competition remains the spur to progress and policies aimed at...

• An NAFWR protest about difficulties and cost increases which the Transport Bill would cause for furniture removers was...

• The first meeting of the North Western Tipping Liaison Committee of the Road Haulage Association, held on Monday, discussed...

• On Monday (March 18) at 7.45 p.m. in the Civil Defence Centre, New Street, Luton, a meeting on vehicle security will...

• The company making trailers to a new design at Bolton, described in CM on March 1. is John Booth (Trailers) Ltd.. and not...

• More bus operators may be given the Is 7d fuel grant proposed in the Transport Bill. Mr. Stephen Swingler, Minister of State...

from our political correspondent • It could only happen in the upsidedown world of transport. The Government was last week...

• When the provisions of the 1967 Road Safety Act are brought into effect it is to be hoped that some discipline will be...

• It is understood that the British Railway's application for 15 Freightliner artics for the Garston terminal, due to be heard...

• An appeal by Short Brothers (Trans port) Ltd. (as reported in CM, March 1) has been dismissed by the Transport Tribunal in a...

Lochside Dairies Ltd., Ayr, delivery vehicles failed a mechanical inspection, Mr. A. B. Birnie, Scottish South LA was told at a...

• "Totally unnecessary"—that is the National Farmers Union's description of the procedure for applying for an operator's...

• In a written decision, Mr. D. I. R. Muir, the Metropolitan Licensing Authority, granted a B licence to R. A. Saward and Co....

In Chester on Wednesday, Williams Coaches, of Bethesda, Caernarvonshire, was granted a primary express carriage licence for a...

• It is surprising how many people still believe that, under proposed legislation, an operator's licence will be made available...

• "I get so many cases of people entering into contracts who later realize that it just isn't going to pay and throw it in",...

• Evidence was concluded in the High Court on Monday in a case in which James Holden Junior (Crumpsa II) Ltd., transport...

• Following agreement with the four objectors in Manchester on Tuesday, Smallshaw Transport Co. of Ashton-underLyne, was...

plans big switch to single-deckers by Derek Moses • Nine AEC Swift 505 rear-underfloorengined single-deckers currently being...

FARES APPLICATIONS ON THE WAY • Several schemes for more Red Arrow buses and flat-fare routes in the suburbs are prepared and...

• In response to a demand for back issues • of CM's sister journal Motor, which is • currently presenting its readers with a...

• Despite appeals by Liverpool Corporation and the National Union of General and Municipal Workers, 3,400 bus drivers and...

• Breaking into what has been regarded as a traditionally Leyland market, Bristol Commercial Vehicles Ltd. has obtained part of...

Decimal coinage guidance for bus operators • In February 1971, when decimal coinage is introduced in the UK, bus operators—...

• The new central bus station and car park to be built for the County Borough of Preston, Lanes, will form the largest road...

by A. J. P. Wilding • High-quality goods bodywork is once again an eye-catching feature of the Geneva Show. And the continuing...

• Integrated production and joint export marketing of their complete truck ranges have been agreed between MAN of Germany and...

• Study teams are now being established to examine every section—engineering, planning, marketing, labour relations,...

• Continuing its phased introduction of the Formula range of semi-trailers first announced in October 1967, Taskers of Andover...

by P. A. C. Brockington • Road Transport Services (Hackney) Ltd., 14 Andrews Road, Hackney, London E8, have recently completed...

by R. D. Cater • In my report of the road test of the Heathfield dump truck which appeared in the January 5 issue of CM, one...

• For its third national conference, at the Grand Hotel, Birmingham on May 3-4, the Institute of Road Transport Engineers has...

Company in agreement with British Electric Traction Co. Ltd. to the headquarters organization of the BET bus companies lat...

We record with regret the death of Mrs. Amelia Herring. Mrs. Herring, who died at the age of 84, 4 in Chesterfield Royal...

Materials handling equipment includes not only large items such as fork trucks costing perhaps thousands of pounds; millions of...

by Handyman Vehicle recovery: tricks, trucks and tactics (7) • Let's get away from dealing with tools and tackle for a while,...

RHA national chairman Philip Turner gently turned aside the prospect of a third year in the chair, when he spoke at the...

Can anyone, I wonder, claim equally wide and practical gas turbine engineering experience as that possessed by Ivan M. Swatman...

The containers OCL have purchased will not, I gather, have any lashing rings in the floors. The hope is that the boxes will be...

Few people can have known more about the real problems of rural passenger services than Arthur George Curtis, who died last...

I've always believed that it takes a fair amount of courage to be a driving instructor. And if the films are to be believed, it...

Journalists usually go purple when printers make mistakes, but there was a slip which we nearly let through last week because...

"ENGLISH CAM ION—good—French camion—phut!" The sound of "English camion" and the broad downward swishing sweep of an arm to...

accepted our invitation to present papers at the fifth in the annual series of Fleet Management Conferences sponsored by...

Chief executive of the Transport Holding Company, Mr. Quick Smith is closely involved in the developments by which the freight...

Mr. Swatman has been chief engineer, turbine operations, engineering staff, Ford Motor Co, USA, since 1966 and engaged...

General secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union, Mr. Cousins started his career as a miner, but was soon to become...

The Fuller Roadranger 10-speed twin-countershaft gearbox is to be made in Britain by Eaton Yale and Towne. Tested in an ERF...

BY ASHLEY TAYLOR AM IRTE, Assoc lost T Final link-up FROM Mr. J. Churm, head of the Halifax Cleansing and Transport...

Bill, there-drafting of regulation 82(1) of the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1966 may seem like very small...

1) ust express the immediate sentiments of 'any members of all the Institutesfions) )nnected with the industry. The timetable...

Not a painless extraction ' LIKE THE DENTIST who reassures his patient that there will be hardly any pain, Mrs. Barbara Castle...

HE growing recognition of physical stribution as a tool of marketing and sales plicy was the underlying theme of a recent lk by...

The next seven days March 15-21 FRIDAY loT: annual dinner. Dorchester Hotel. Lando W1, 6.45 p.m. loT (Tees-side): "Decimal...

and repeated clutch failure is very costly in terms of maintenance and down time. I have been advised that employing an...

loading of tailboards and what is the law regarding this loading? A A case dealing with the loading of a tailboard was...

animal feedingstuffs? I understand that some systems are better than others with regard to minimizing degradation. A A...

diesel engine some time ago, oil consumption was excessive and has only improved slightly since then. I have been advised that...

A The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 1967 No. 1753 (price 6d) which comes into...

A While individual rates of fuel consumption must partly depend upon both the local terrain and type of operation the...

on a parts delivery service. But in addition to goods which are pre-ordered we also carry stock for possible sale at the...

INSTRUCTION through the medium of closed-circuit television organized by local educational authorities could be the shot in the...