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17th September 1983
17th September 1983
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Think wisely

4EXT WEDNESDAY the Greater London Council meets to take what could be a nomentous decision for the road transport industry. It...

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• Dip presses for tacho on bin lorries

LOCAL AUTHORITY skip lorries are the latest target for the Department of Transport in its efforts to clear up the confusion...

No date for level crossing

THERE IS no firm date yet t lifting the requirement for dri ers of 38-tonne lorries to oho; for authority to use unmanm level...

Wirral's new weighbridge

A DYNAMIC axle weighbridge now in operation at the Wal sey entrance to the Kingsw Tunnel under the Mersey. The weighbridge,...

Ford goes off the rails

ROAD HAULAGE flexibility has won it some business from rail freight, with Ford abandoning its use of trains to ship engines...

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knotherolivebranch

JSTRY pressure is building up for the Greater London Council elay any lorry ban plans when its transport committee meets week...

Poets' profit gets better

ND 0 European Transport ices (Poets), the road transdivision of P and 0, insed its pre-tax profits in the half of this year....

Hybrid vans for UK trials

BRECKNELL WILLIS is to build 10 light vans which are to be evaluated as part of a hybrid vehicle programme part financed by the...

Agri aggro on lorry bans

THE AGRICULTURAL lobby is campaigning busily to stop the Greater London Council from imposing heavy lorry bans. Submissions...

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Ford share up

FORD recovered some of its former glory with its Cargo sales last month, scoring a six per cent leap in market share of the...

Scammell gets its award

LEYLAND'S specialist and military vehicle builder Scammell was last week presented with the Queen's Award for Export...

Volvo wants EEC friends

PEHR GYLLENHAIVIMAR, chi man of Volvo, told a press ci ference in London this wi that prominent European dustrialists were...

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Watch for those cones

THE BURDENS of road building delays continue to be imposed upon long-distance drivers, and the latest crop from the Department...

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THE BRITISH Road Federatic this week protested about tl inadequacies of the A23 La don-Brighton road.

BRF director Kenneth Canni claimed that with the exceptit of the 20 miles stretch of ti M23 conditions on the road ha , become...

A cold fish

JOHN MACDIARM1D, of Skl has started a refrigerated trar port haulage business with eye-catching truck which h been covering the...

Plaskett at Satan

NO LESS a topic than the future for road transport is to be examined at next month's institute of Transport Administration...

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Two wheels on your wagon from Dodge

UAL CONTROLS, enabling the thicle to be driven from either de of the cab, can now be )ecified as a factory fitted upon on the...

Starter lockout from Butec

A NEW starter lockout, claimed to give complete protection to most types of starter installation, has been developed by Butec...

GM at home

LIGHTWEIGHT components and attention to aerodynamic design are the main features of in' terest in the 1984 range of US trucks...

THREE TRANSQUIP tri-axle lowloaders incorporathig the Rydewell all-hydraulic suspension introduced

earlier this year have gone into service with Peterborough Heavy Haulage. More stringent control of axle loads on vehicles...

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Albert Booth surprise

A MAJOR SURPRISE has been caused in the bus industry by former Shadow Transport Secretary Albert Booth's appointment as a...

Wine man at SPD

JOHN KELLEND takes on an entirely new job in the SPD Group next week as its wine trade distribution business development...

Obituary

WE RECORD with regret if death of Harold Goodwin at 85. Mr Goodwin trained as a cha tered engineer with Vickers an helped make...

Graham Montgomerie to join FTA

ONE OF CM's best-known staff members, engineering editor Graham Montgomerie, is leaving on December 1 to join the Freight...

Pople goes

BARRIE POPLE has resigned from the board of PW International, the Guildford-based distribution management and industrial...

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Cone warning from ERF

IF has drawn attention to the ngers of mixing wheel-stud nes for Kirkstall Forge and ton axles. Fitting a KF cone to an Eaton...

ERF gets lighter

ERF's new 16-tonner, the M16, which was described in CM last week, is fitted with a newly developed, lightweight version of the...

What a day for a draydream

AT A WET and windy Mira proving ground last Sunday the major fuel economy prizes in the trials organised jointly by the...

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ALMOST a year since the Austin Metro van was introduced

at the Birmingham Motor Show, Austin Rover has uprated its payload capacity by 24 per cent and improved the loading facility....

Four-wheel drive Datsun

A FOUR-WHEEL DRIVE Datsun one-ton pick-up goes on sale this month. It takes the Z-Series 2.2-litre overhead camshaft engine...

ARC Eastern region has ta delivery of its first truck

mi based on a Leyland Constrm 24.21 lightweight 6x4 cha: equipped with a donkey-engi driven Stothert and Pitt TM mixer unit. In...

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ung threatens PTEs

r DAY of the biggest bus undertakings may soon be over, Transt Secretary Tom King warned this week. He also put the future of...

Admiral and the Chair

'ICE-ADMIRAL newly-appointo judge the revived attempt 3 , stablish minibus services in Idon is under pressure from Greater...

Liberals don't like them

PASSENGER Transport Executives and the National Bus Company would have a limited future of the Liberal Party came to power. In...

Top terminus

DEWSBURY Bus Station has been judged the country's bestkept bus and coach station. It beat 51 other bus stations in the first...

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Leyland holds on

COACH SALES are the only sign of better times in the passenger vehicle market this year, with Society of Motor Manufacturers...

Bennett win:

CLAIMS that an extension liberalised Scottish bus se' would cost British Rail nt £90,000 have been dismisse a Department of...

Independent defeats SBG

AN INDEPENDENT operator has been preferred to a Scottish Bus Group subsidiary for the operation of two new stage services on...

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Ivernment erference

H REFERENCE to your article iintenance worry" (CM tember 3) I feel you are ving the wrong conclusions these figures. In my...

oking apart

VE read your description passing of the old style cker", (CM, August 13). looting the usual stance of d-style recovery man — of...

Dangerous substances

I NOTICED in CM, August 20, under the heading "Police concern", a brief mention of a meeting to be held in September between...

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The show that counts in the coaching world

A magnificent exhibition of the latest models does full justice to the importance of this unique event. Noel Millier...

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It's have your say day at our coaching jambore

Don't be left out in the cold. Be there to make your point and hear what others are thinking in the coach and travel world....

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Tie for tit r tat?

ETA CONFERENCE next k will no doubt have a lively Jssion of the Wood Inquiry's mmendations. The vigour not be at all damped...

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Golden Master proves a coaching Concorde

Luxury is everywhere in this most impressive machine, and its semi-doubledeck allows a number of interior layouts. Noel Millier...

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No-step boarding extended

AS NEWS is received of the change-over in Halmstad, Sweden, from use of electronic guidance of buses approaching and leaving...

Frankfurt unveiling

AT THIS WEEK's Frankfurt Motor Show the new range of Mercedes-Benz medium-weight commercials for the 12-15 tonne range and a...

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From the

ratrmyyrdupo Motor Panels' md talks about the latest lightweight and sound-deadening materials, and how he sees alternative...

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A good all-rounder, this tentonner has better than average payload

and superb handling. Tim Blakemore reports THE 10 tonnes gvw market sector is one which seldom receives as much attention as it...

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low fighting on a ?asy pole

HOUGH the CBI's latest lomic survey claims that e is continuing to improve itly because of a consumer m, it is pessimistic...

n accident the Price

F charity IRTY YEARS on the T.J.E. Jdie) Price, that vocal, longrving member of the former luth Wales area (now part of 3...

He stuck closer than 'brothers'

IT IS STRANGE that a trade union should have refused to help a lorry driver who was dismissed by Rank Hovis allegedly for...

An odd case of discrimination

AN ESSEX reader who describes himself as a saddened Leyland admirer has echoed my comments (August 20) on the apparent...

London ambulances through the ages

HISTORIC vehicle rallies, through constant repetition, are threatening to become a bore even to enthusiasts. An exception was a...

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Stop transport killing

I RECOMMEND all who have responsibility for managing transport to obtain a copy of the Health and Safety Executive Report,...

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ies round vn

EVER-GROWING selection loks of bus photographs has in again with the ication of Urban Buses in 980s (Ian Allan; £5.95) by n...

iither British ses?

MARKET for new buses and ;hes in Britain has gone ugh many turns and twists the past 15 years, with mass ;lining by PTEs and...

Busing in Derby

AN ENTREPRENEUR with the memorable name of William Wallace Wallis — yes, it really was — has the distinction of being the...

Talking on the move

THE RECENT SURGE of interest in mobile communications has caused more operators to contemplate the use of two-way radio....