ATKINSON • FODEN • E.R.F.• SCAMMELL O NLY TEN MONTHS since Rolls-Royce entered the automotive arena with a blaze of publicity...

There are nearly as many trucks made in this country as in the rest of Europe put together. We are the second largest producer...

At home, with air and rail interests chasing the same business as ourselves, it's vitally important that the road transport...

There is a pronounced trend to bigger trucks throughout the transport industry. Economics and common sense make it inevitable....

It is forecast that in five years' time, vehicle output at the heavy end of the scale will be nearly double that of today....

T HE NEWS that four truck manufacturers now include the RollsRoyce Eagle range in their engine options might have caused a bare...

T HE EAGLE made by RollsRoyce, which is now being offered as an option by four of Britain's leading manufacturers of heavy...

le Rolls-Royce company is, as eve come to expect, making anher contribution to Britain's export ive with its diesel engines for...

, ne of the aspects of the Eagle Diesel tgine which will please Transport linister Barbara Castle is that the serve power of...

, thate from the proud driver of a ohs-Royce powered 30 ton truck, verheard in a transport cafe at Forpeth: "She's the best...

ORMAN PARRY, Managing Director, Rolls-Royce Oil Engine Division, in reply to a question on the research facilities of the...

E RNEST MARPLES when Minister of Transport often said that on motoring matters he had about 50m advisers. Barbara Castle does...

by JOHN N. FRIEDMAN T WO HUNDRED vehicles delivering newspapers that should have gone by rail: the NUR goods-train go-slow is...

MRS. BARBARA CASTLE is in Hungary this week at the invitation of the Hungarian Government after Dr. G. Csanadi, Hungarian...

From a special correspondent The Summit XI I understand, will soon make approaches to Cabinet Ministers other than Mrs. Castle...

T HE NFO could become the medium of bitter disputes between the Railways Board and road hauliers, said Mr. Tom Bradley, Labour...

THE TUC'S OWN proposals on transport legislation are set out in a lengthy memorandum included in the General Council's Report,...

A SPECIAL PAPER on the effects of Mrs. Castle's licensing proposals will be given by TRTA secretary Mr. H. R. Featherstone at...

T WO proposals on brake efficiencies for motor tractors and motor locomotives operated under the Construction and Use...

THE HAULING of huge tonnages of coal by Wm. Dobson (Edinburgh) Ltd. along a road with a bad accident record was condemned by...

LEP TRANSPORT LTD. (220 Londonbased vehicles), Ralph Hilton Transport Ltd., and J. Sainsbury Ltd. (361 vehicles) are to occupy...

M R. RAY GUNTER, Minister of Labour, on Tuesday approved the proposals submitted by the Road Transport Industry Training Board...

THE REQUEST for copies of the guide to weights and dimensions of goods vehicles published in COMMERCIAL MOTOR has been such...

WE ARE HAULIERS "WE DON'T consider ourselves sailors—we're hauliers", said Mr. E. G. Baker, at Romsey, last week. He was...

LEICESTERSHIRE and Rutland Police intend to take "strong action" against those coal hauliers whose vehicles scatter parts of...

EDINBURGH holidaymakers are to be offered a new range of nine and 10-day coach tours to English resorts following a substantial...

A B-LICENCE application by Linham and Sons Ltd., Mere, Somerset, was adjourned by Western LA Mr. J. R. C. Samuel-Gibbon last...

THE transport manager was overworked and hampered by a yard cluttered with dead and decaying vehicles, said West Midland LA Mr....

HE British Road Federation has asked Mrs. Castle to reconsider the quantity control aspects of the new carriers' licensing...

TWO additional 8-ton pressurized tankers were authorized to Brown Bros. (Bulk Haulage) Congleton Ltd., by deputy North Western...

THE PROPOSED 25-mile radius limit on certain bulk traffic is arbitrary and unreasonable, says the British Road Federation in...

GLASGOW CORPORATION'S bid to increase bus and Underground fares has been rejected by the Scottish Traffic Commisioners. Cllr....

—Mr. Quin at Eastbourne MR. DENTS QUIN, secretary of the Passenger Transport Vehicle Operators Independence Committee (VOICE),...

byASHLEY TAYLOR WAILING SIRENS have been fitted to some Liverpool Corporation buses in an attempt to "scare off" the hooligan...

B. E. Burford, 58, London Transport divisional engineer (country buses and coaches)—to divisional engineer, central buses A...

Fr HE Rapp Organization has grown from two small garages in St. John's Wood in 1946, to a seven-acre site at Hayes, Middx, with...

A N OFF-CHANCE suggestion from Bostrom Manufacturing Co. Ltd., Northampton, specialists in designing suspension seats for...

THE Traders Road Transport Association is to carry out further roadside spot checks in the North. Northern division secretary...

rr HE younger engineer reading this series may well begin to wonder just how far he is expected to go in the prevention of...

SAFETY CLINICS for trucks, with free brake tests, are now being held by Ford's 170-strong truck dealer network. They will...

operators preferring to carry their own third party liabilities must apply for a warrant to the Minister of Transport instead...

COMPACTNESS combined with very light weight, facilitating easy installation, are features of the latest range of Econheat...

WINDSCREEN wiper-blades suitable for fitting to nearly all British cars and trucks built since 1950 are now available from Park...

A FORK-LIFT truck with a four-stage mast giving 40ft lift and with a lifting capacity of 2,500lb has been developed by Matbro...

A VARIABLE-SHOT lubricating dispenser for BP self-mix two-stroke oil is being distributed by the BP retail market division of...

CHANGES made to the range of selfretracting nylon coiled hose marketed by Hubert H.P. Trist and Co. Ltd., manufacturers of...

A SPECIAL hydraulic cage grab for use in conjunction with the Wilson Foldfork has been developed by All Purpose Machines and...

N EW makes of containers and interesting ancillary equipment were on show at the 3rd Export Services Exhibition opened on...

GOVERNMENT Ministers find time short for all the things they wish to accomplish. Mrs. Barbara Castle has a fuller diary of...

PLACED THIRD in the LDOY Final last year, and a consistentlI outstanding performer at the Oxford round, B. A. Absolom did not...

I HEAR that Bonallack's invitation golf meeting at Thorndon Park last Friday attracted operators and suppliers from all over...

LARRY SMITH, the TGWU's plain-speaking passenger officer, was hugely amused last week at the Trades Union Congress when pay...

"WE request you to take—on the occasion of the Motor Show— an active interest in the worries and grave concerns of the...

BRUCE BARRIE, a director of John Barrie (Contractor) Ltd., Glasgow, tells me that some queue-jumping is allowed at the Glasgow...

S HEER coincidence must account for the fact that trade and industry in London and the Trades Union Congress in Brighton were...

THERE must be something in that West -ICountry air! For the second year running Torquay eliminating centre has provided the...

BY A. J. WILDING AMIMechE, MIRTE PICTURES BY DICK ROSS W HEN Scammell introduced the Trunker II it became the first vehicle...

Scarnmell Trunker Mk II 10 ft. G in. wheelbase twin-steer six-wheel forward-control tractive unit with standard plastics cab...

I T was "most disturbing" that the plan for the co-ordination of public passenger transport had been compiled at the request of...

MR. T. E. TINDALL, director-general, Road Transport Industry Training Board, in his paper on "Training for a dynamic industry"...

OVER THE NEXT 10 to 20 years public transport undertakings would have to regard as their primary task the taking of people to...

known, plastics tanks are not produced commercially in this or any other country. My company, REG Mouldings, 65 Montrose...

A Two books on store-keeping are Stores Accounts and Stores Control by J. H. Burton, published by Pitman, 39 Parker Street,...

Vaporizing liquids, used as the extinguishing agent in many vehicle extinguishers, can have a softening effect on GRP. A The...

A A well-indexed guidebook listing hundreds of organizations covering most trades and professions has been put out by the...

for a Luton-type bodied five-tonner when averaging 600 miles a week with brief comments as to the pricing of contract hire...

International Container Bureau and do you know if it is possible to obtain a copy of the draft TIC Convention referred to on...

concerning an eight-wheeled artic with a carrying capacity of 16 tons, which was off the road for approximately 11 weeks. What...

that include precision equipment. Please suggest a packaging specialist who can advise on the most suitable form of packaging...

with constant-vacuum carburetters and when running in dense traffic in high ambient temperatures, the engines tend to stall....

B ECAUSE successive generations of transport operators have applied their skill and experience to improving efficiency and...

IN ADVICE ON TRANSPORT on page 53 of our issue of August 25, I referred to an accident on August 22 in which a road tanker...

How to choose a transport management course I GAVE SOME GUIDELINES last week on how to choose from the wide variety of...

George Lewsey's Circle Car Wire Ltd. Cap.: £100 in El shares. Dirs.: Clifford Linsell, 59 Newland Court, Forty Avenue, Wembley,...

Acquired nearly five years ago by the Butterley .Group, the 14 Lincolnshire firms comprising 45-vehicle Lincolnshire Traffics...