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15th October 1965
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roducts and know-how make vehicle bodybuilding easier, _Ticker and more profitable

ilco-Rib—better wear, better less maintenance. Impalco-Rib complete ribbed sheet system h needs no horizontal panel stifN, no...

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The Transport Man

- FROM time to time everybody connected with road transport, particularly on the goods vehicle side of the industry, uses the...

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TRTA PRESIDENT ATTACKS 'STATUS'

rOLLECT1VELY, road, rail, inland waterway and air transport services represented 10 per cent of the gross national product and...

TORIES WOULD WIDEN COMPETITION

Hinton Report With Minister FROM OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT PriL E Conservative Party has come out ly in favour of making...

Co-ordinated Contain

ment Urged R OAD, rail and sea interests developing 1 .• the use of containers should get together for an exchange of ideas...

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Three New Chassis Lubricating Systems From Tecalemit

shown for the first time at the ish Commercial Motor Show t new chassis lubrication systems Tecalemit Ltd. The first is an...

Leyland Distributors Form Association For Liaison

XECUTIVES of the 23 companies in the UK distributing Leyland and Albion vehicles have joined together in an association called...

A FUTURE FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORT?

T HE key question in the future of trans 7 port may be not what kind of public transport we should have, but on what terms we...

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Railway Leaders Tackle Premier about Transport Plans

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT D AIL union leaders who had been baulked of their chance of criticizing the Government over...

FRESH FISH SERVICE SUCCESSFUL THE daily delivery service by British

Road Services Ltd. of fish landed at Grimsby has now been operating for just under a year. At a joint discussion between...

Birmingham Haulier Closes Lorry Park A LORRY park opened in

BirmingI — L ham six months ago to provide security for vehicles with valuable loads. is to be closed. The site, owned by...

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insport Association Visit Scania Vabis

IR MAN of the Transport Assoanon, Mr. Ken Beresford of ord Transport Ltd.. Stoke-uponheaded a party of Association .trs last...

Bulk Buying By Swedish Hauliers

S AIFA, the commercial subsidiary of SLF, the Swedish road haulage association, has recently embarked upon an ambitious...

AMEY ACQUISITIONS IN CONTRACTING FIELD

rOMPLETION of a number of acquisitions has been announced by the Amey Group Ltd. The remaining half of the issued share...

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Men in the News The Minister of Transport has appointed

Mr. J. Gourlay and Mrs. 1. D. Morrison as Members of the Transport Users' Consultative Committee for the South Western area....

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x-week Suspension And A Warning

0 companies operating from Leith Caledonian Supply Co. Ltd. and .rry Haulage Ltd. — had their es suspended for six weeks at a...

Tribunal Reserves Decision On Removals Appeal

" W/H.EN someone starts rocking the VI' boat as the appellants have done ", said Mr. J. Backhouse, " the objectors naturally...

'Fantastic' Illegal Operations Alleged on Appeal

ENSIVE operations outside the tthorized normal user and allegaof " trafficking in licences " were ered by the Transport...

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MR. HANLON REPEATS HIS WARNING Operator Rapped

For Withdrawal Northern Licensing Authority, r. I. A, T. Hanlon, in Newcastle riday, repeated his warning to s that lorry...

Transport War In Spalding

X DDRESSING the Transport Tribunal / -1 Iasi week. Mr. K._ Schiemann referred to something of a war between rival hauliers at...

C to A Switch Sought for Ten

adjourned hearing of an applicaby Spelmonden Estates Ltd., Lurst, for 10 vehicles on A licence sumed at Maidstone oe. Monday....

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Witnesses Galore Not LICENSING

Needed At Manchester A T a sitting of the North Western Traffic Commissioners in Manchester last week, all available seats in...

CASEBOOK The Davis Bro!

is ion Possible Implications A s reported last week, Mr. b. I. R. Muir, the Metropolitan Licensing Authority, after some...

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A Doubtful Decision

D EFINING the public interest is a fascinating pursuit indulged in not infrequently by Traffic Commissioners. At Manchester...

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Sleeper Coaches for Britain?

BY DEREK MOSES WHEN I recorded that sleeper coaches Vi' had gone into production in Germany last year (The Commercial Motor,...

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time Breaks Panthers For Maidstone and District Portugal

order received frono the Lisbon ark Tramways Ltd., Portugar, Daimler Fleetline rear-engined leek bus chassis marks the ; of...

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Logical Subsidy Policy Needed, Says Leeds Busman

A MORE logical national policy on I -1 passenger transport subsidies was urgently required, said Mr. Arnold Stone, chairman,...

Body Orders For New Single-deckers

n ETAILS can now be given of the bodywork ordered for 10 singledecker buses which represent a new trend in bus design. This is...

Belfast Profit Despite Troubles

nPERATIONS of Belfast Corporation transport department for the 1964-5 year resulted in a surplus of £81,663. Although there...

Fewer Passengers But Dearer Fares

T HE Borough treasurer of Middlesbrough. Mr. J. B. Woodham, commenting last week on the £26.473 loss on the Corporation bus...

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NEWS IN BRIEF Spending on Road Safety: The nobile Manufacturers'

Association of ica has allocated more than S2m, to romotion of road safety in the year 5. This sum will be allocated among 17...

Magirus Demonstrated at Brands Hatch

BY THE TECHNICAL EDITOR D EMONSTRATIONS of the range of Magirus vehicles, which are to be marketed by Magirus-Deuti....

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Production Expansion For Pitt Trailers

WITH the opening of a new factory in Glasgow and an extension to its existing VV premises at Barton Stacey, Pitt Trailers Ltd....

KRUPP/WHITE NEGOTIATIONS

IT was confirmed last week by Krupp of I Essen that negotiations were going on with the American White Motor Co. Ltd., covering...

Mechanical Engineers Announce Research Awards

G RANTS totalling more than £3,600 are announced by The Council of The Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Each year funds...

Bonallack-bodied Mercedes for Kenya Ice Cream Factory

A REFRIGERATED boxvan for service in Ken) a with factory-to-depot deliveries of bulk ice cream has been designed and built by...

NEWS ABOUT ROADS

Lam, Yorks Extension on M62: The Miester of Transport has published his proposed route for the final 104 miles of the...

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N EW EQUIPMENT

and Publications uid-level Sight Gauges n Vactric U1D-LEVEL sight gauges designed by an American cornany are now available...

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The New Self Starter from Simms

A S announced in The Commercial Motor recently, a new mechanical self starter has been introduced by Simms Motor Units Ltd....

ROAD AND WORKSHOP by HANDYMAN

The Value of Drilling Jigs A LTHOUGH one would not expect to find any large amount of repetition drilling work in vehicle...

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BIRD'S EYE VIEW

By the Hawk ern Welsh Stand Th e part played by the n Welsh Omnibus Co. Lid., in providing employor disabled persons was...

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A very mixed bag at Blackpool

RHA CONFERENCE DISCUSSES MANY SUBJECTS T HIS year's Road Haulage Association conference at Blackpool produced a wide range of...

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Plenty of Talk On Tuesday's Resolutions

T HE first resolution on Tuesday: That in view of misunderstandings by the public of the results of roadside checks on the...

Star Speaker Pulls Out At Last Minute

T HERE was considerable disappoint ment and a certain amount of anno y ance among delegates when it was announced, only a few...

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lotorway Limits "No", Recorders "Yes"

than this was involved the could be well visualized. In mit of an emergency stop there anger of the load moving, the ; skidding...

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Productivity The Keyword, Even Without

Mr. Jones

THE deputy chairman of the Prices

and Incomes Board, Mr. Duncan A. C. Dewdney (who took the place of the chairman, Mr. Aubrey Jones, at the last moment), was...

Why So Few Road Haulage Students?

(Continued From Previous Page) Mr. W. MacMillan (Scotland) made these points in seconding the resolution that was carried with...

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V ERY year more and more British coach operators ire venturing

across the English Channel. Others. have not yet taken the plunge in this direction, may be dering doing so to cater for the...

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Dunlop keeps your load on the road not on your mind

Week in, week out the great loads speed across country, meeting tight schedules— sometimes missing schedules because of...

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In Search of M.P.G.

By R. D. CATER A M Inst E 'TO be alive to the overall cost of excessive fuel consumpI lion in a big fleet is to be in a...

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Touring 'a la Continentale'

Continued from page 79 The best vehicles, from the point of view of obtaining service, in Belgium. Holland and. perhaps....

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SPLIT AND POLISH

) NE of the many beneficial results which were expected to flow from the Industrial Training Act, 1964, was that road operators...

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AEC Mammoth Minor to be at Kelvin Hall

A LTHOUGH a preliminary announcement was made in March that AEC Ltd. had designed a twin-steer six-wheeled tractive unit for...

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w Fleet for Ids Eye

1INT exercise by the transport vices manager of Birds Eye Foods 4ick(eover Transport Ltd., Crane uf Trailers Ltd. and Leyland...

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More Overhead Costs

L AST week a start was made in considering the several items of expenditure which fall under the heading of overhead or...

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THE COMMON ROOM

By George Wilmot Lecturer in Transport Studies, University of London REGIONAL STUDIES Greater Leicester THROUGHOUT this...

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I YOUR OPINION

land-Duple Only ? IING followed with interest the Leyland-AEC )ntroversy (and the associated concern over lack of of product)...