Durability, braking and cold starting tests round the Arctic Circle. New FJs beat sub-zero challenge. Our new FJs are going...

Easy work for the FJ The two. test FJs left Helsinki on 24th January and arrived at Rovaniemi, the centre of the logging area...

Leave a truck out in the Arctic night with the temperature dropping to -25°F, and you might expect a bit of starting trouble in...

reliability. . . economy. . . capacity All-over safety What's the secret of FJ's high profit performance? Keeping a careful...

FJ's new Mark 4, 5-speed gearbox is the toughest and most efficient on the road. Gear ratios have been carefully worked out for...

An FJ cab has everything a driver could ask for to make his job pleasant and easy. But we haven't made it like that just to....

The new FJ range gives you the widest choice ever, from which to select a single vehicle or build a carefully planned fleet....

Big pulling power doesn't mean sacrifices in reliability and economy. The design changes have been made to improve reliability...

tilt the cab for major jobs, the whole engine is in the right place and at the right height for fast easy work. And the...

VOLUME 127 No. 3270 MAY 17 1968 Full marks to TRTA for providing a practical and well-reasoned alternative to the...

TRTA plan for 'going Dutch' passed to Richard Marsh • Full details of the TRTA's "viable and workable alternative to the...

• After 18 months' experience with four forward-entrance Leyland PD2 doubledeckers on o-m-o stage carriage services, Mr. Eric...

The newly appointed national executive council of the Road Haulage Association on Wednesday elected N. R. Wynn chairman of the...

SIR DONALD PREDICTS NEW MODELS NEXT YEAR • On Tuesday the largest motor vehicle manufacturer in the United Kingdom, British...

• Normandy Ferries' second motor vessel Leopard is now in service and CM was represented on its May Day maiden voyage. The ship...

• The first private inland clearance depot in Eire is being operated by Lap (Ireland) Ltd., a member of the LEP Group, at East...

Copper-theft case settled f L :Vow dtur ine in favour of Holden • Judgment by consent was entered in the High Court on...

• Testing of certain goods vehicles used for the transport of dangerous goods to the Continent will begin on June 4. The...

CHALLENGE ON MORE DRASTIC REORGANIZATION • A three-point programme for the coming year was outlined by Mr. Noel Wynn (Robert...

• A categorical assurance that quantity licensing legislation would be repealed by a Conservative government was given by Mr....

attitudes in Holland and Belgium by John Darker • Dutch and Belgian attitudes to containerization are discussed in the "Second...

• After 30 years of operation from SE1 John Harris (Cartage) Ltd. has moved to a new 12,000 sq.ft. warehouse and distribution...

by lain Sherriff • A very-much-off-form Reg Tooze, of Regent Oil Co., qualified for the 1968 LDOY Final at Torbay on Sunday...

• It should have rained. The weather man had promised, or rather threatened, frequent thundery showers on Sunday. They did...

• At the conclusion of the NAFWR Conference in Leicester last week the president, Mr. Arthur Edwards, announced that a school...

'loading pit' system by John Darker • A new system of pit loading is being installed at six new distribution centres of Hoover...

• A vehicle operated by a company in the Wiggins Teape Group was recently given a delayed GV9, although it had not long...

The Road Haulage Association is expecting an attendance of around 5,000 for the final Transport Freedom Rally, which is to be...

• A number of traders are known to be rethinking their group transport and warehousing policies with the intention of using...

• Mr. J. M. Fletcher, who was appointed joint receiver of Davis Brothers (Haulage) Ltd. early this year (as reported in CM...

• A 10-point initial performance inspection on its diesel engines in certain specified makes of equipment is to be offered free...

• Orders for Leyland buses received from UK operators in the past few weeks have exceeded the £1+m mark. Leeds, Manchester,...

• Despite strenuous opposition, the Government last week introduced into the Transport Bill an amendment allowing the money...

• Sunderland Corporation is to object to any move by the Government to include the Corporation's bus undertaking in the...

• During the year ended December 31, 1967, the profit of Lancashire United Transport Ltd. was £208,095, compared with £199,372...

• An American firm of transport and planning consultants is to carry out a survey of transport in the Tyne and Wear areas, on...

I At the GLC Council meeting last week, 4r. H. T. Mote asked the chairman of the ighways and traffic committee what steps /ere...

P Chester Corporation Transport has 'laced an order with Guy Motors Ltd., Wolverhampton, for six Guy Arab V doubleleek buses....

• In Manchester on Tuesday the North Western Traffic Commissioners granted Lancaster Corporation a ld increase in fares for all...

• Now in service with the Yorkshire Traction Co. Ltd. are the first examples of 26 new buses and coaches scheduled for delivery...

• A pay and productivity deal which will give rises of up t o 35s a week to 110,000 company busmen was approved on Friday by...

• Changes that London Transport had planned to make in a number of its bus routes have now been deferred. A London Transport...

in, out and pending from our industrial correspondent • Municipal busmen at Newcastle upon Tyne who have been on strike for a...

says PETER WALKER • Summing up the effects of their opposition to the Transport Bill at the end of its Committee stage in the...

• Quite a large number of socially desirable but completely uneconomic bus services could only operate if there were fare...

• Opposition attempts to alleviate the tax increase on fuel failed when the Finance Bill, which gives effect to the Budget, was...

• Last year the Road Haulage subsidiaries of the Transport Holding Company owned 18,214 vehicles and employed 38,097 staff....

• The salaries of members of the new authorities proposed in the Transport Bill would be considered in the light of the need to...

• A demand for compulsory mud flaps on the rear mudguards of heavy vehicles was turned down by the Government last week. Mr....

• In Sheffield last week it was revealed that a firm taken over by the Brent Group of Companies Ltd., Styring Transport Ltd.,...

• The Transport Tribunal, in a written decision, has allowed in part the appeal of Knowles (Transport) and six others. T. E.G....

• In Leeds on Wednesday Ellen Smith Tours Ltd., Rochdale, applied to the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners to renew excursion and...

• An appeal by a Cambeltown (Argyll) transport firm, which was seeking an extension of the conditions of its B licence,...

• Having only been granted a licence consolidating the conditions of four A licensed vehicles in January this year, J. R....

• A new pattern for the operation of Edinburgh Corporation buses, including the withdrawal of two services, route changes, Cuts...

J. Spencer Wills, a founder-member of the Public Transport Association, is retiring from the council. He played a leading part...

of British Railways Board. A chartered accountant, he is a partner in Peat, Marwick. Mitchell and Co., and is being released by...

by Ron Cater • More than 140 exhibitors are taking part in the third and largest yet "Autovak" Exhibition of garage equipment...

by John Darker • A new automated plant at Northallerton for the production of York ISO containers has a production capacity of...

• Within the next couple of months demonstration models of Bussing goods and p.s.v. models will be arriving in Britain. This...

• Development grants up to £1,500 and substantial capital grants are now being offered by the Road Transport Industry Training...

• Two of Perkins's smaller diesel engines have been used as bases for liquid-petroleumgas (LPG) and petrol units. They are...

Automatic brake adjustment would be counted by most vehicle engineers as a valuable contribution to maintaining efficiency and...

vvrth Ron Cater . When a vehicle has been in service for a long period during which there has been no need to remove the wheel...

by Handyman Vehicle recovery: tricks, trucks and tactics (16) • Not all recoveries spring from road accidents, and the...

US errors BY THOMAS LENTHALL AFTER meeting bus and coach operators from all sections of the industry, as well as many...

WHEN a manufacturer has been as intimately connected with bus operation as has Bristol Commercial Vehicles Ltd., user influence...

DEREK MOSES ANALYSES SOME RECENT TRENDS THERE has been much talk over the years about the possible adoption of standard bus...

I see that the Ministry of Transport has fallen into the Four-in-Line trap. They're not the first—or the last. The Ministry has...

Thumbing old copies of CM it is often difficult to pinpoint just when the many trends in the expansion of road transport...

No dismal forecasts about the younger generation need be applied in Oldham, if Seddon Motors' experience is any guide. Making...

I see that the TRTA inspection service has added lustre to its reputation by coming off best in an encounter with the MoT. A...

I gather that the IRTE is more than a little disappointed at the response to its invitation to manufacturers to display...

A surprising advantage of battery-electric vehicle power was revealed by Lord Wakefield of Kendal when he made his final speech...

Problems for the Training Board AFTER so many years in which training and education in road transport have been largely...

will favour "independent" manufacturers because they are in a position to match the best available major chassis components to...

Combined costing operation A CHANGE in the costing system used by removers is vitally needed. But this cannot be a...

published a news item suggesting that electrically heated screens for buses and coaches, produced by Tripleuç would be a major...

a company in his capacity as a sales representative does he have to license it at the commercial rate of duty? Alternatively...

to have his vehicle retested following an initial failure at a government testing station? A Those vehicles failing on any of...

that road tunnels are being considered at Birmingham to link the central areas of the city with the ring roads. Are not road...

vehicles to come within the proposals of the Transport Bill is now to be 31 tons plated weight instead of 30cwt unladen as...

THE FIRST revision weekend course for the Institute of Transport examinations proved to be encouragingly successful, Held under...

by Les Oldridge AIRTE, AM I MI Mirrors THE REQUIREMENT for vehicles to carry mirrors is contained in Regulation 17 of the...

Harpers Transport (1968) Ltd. Cap.: £10,000. Objects: To carry on the business of hauliers, etc. Dim.: E. A. Quantrill, Mrs....