MANY hasty comments have been made on the planned take-over of Chrysler UK by Peugeot-Citroen / but at least it is now emerging...

THE CITY'S takeover panel is investigating the reasons behind Crane Fruehauf's pre-tax loss of £305,000 last year which...

NORTH WEST England commercial vehicle assembly workers may impose unilateral action against Japanese lorry imports if they do...

ALTHOUGH it is in process of establishing new engineer facilities away from Sandbach, ERF has no intention of de: ting its...

;HWAYS and traffic management responsibilities may soon ransferred to England's larger district councils. eeretary of State...

SRADING dispute at the -kilts Engine works at erborough has led to over )0 ampoloyees being laid 'hey voted to continue the ike...

TWO road schemes planned originally as part of the now abandoned London Ringway 3 have been dropped from the Department of...

POWER Torque Special Products of Allesley, Coventry, is the newly appointed Midlands distributor of Stonefield 4x4 and 6x4...

SAFER handling methods for liquid petroleum gases have been demonstrated by the Expanded Metal Company. Under the direction of...

risen to record-breaking levels, with June order intake and shipments totalling £42m. There has been a 16 per cent increase in...

THERE IS STILL time to register for CM's (b) Fleet Management Conference at London's Royal Lancaster Hotel on September 13....

Y style road tests Sc • Hand's troubled BedI F250 ambulance fleet led to convince crews of ir fety last weekend. Cre s took...

LEYLAND'S light and medium commercial vehicle works at Bathgate have been crippled by another unofficial strike. Production of...

PL N for a 60-mile West Midlands relief road has been med cautiously by the Freight Transport Association. Mi lands controller...

PROPOSALS for a revised trunk route line on the A470 Taff Valley road have been announced by Secretary of State for Wales John...

GRAMPIAN Region has now approved a positive long-te policy aimed at solution of the lorry parking problem Aberdeen. It is...

PROPOSED record keept arrangements have been d missed by the Freight Trai port Association as being t complicated. The...

licences should be available normally again, following the resumption of normal working at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing...

Toll bills SUCH has been the volume of protest to proposed toll increases on the Severn Bridge that a public inquiry will...

REVISED Construction a Use Regulations, includi extended powers for tow trailers, become effective August 30. Transport...

CONSULTING company Rymar Developments Ltd is to extend its interests into the trailer manufacture and repair business. The new...

THE NIGHTRIDER sleeper conversion to the Volvo F86-49 cab presented an interesting matching problem to Locomotors Ltd of...

break-through in the development of strong high-wear sistant crank and pins made from glass-filled nylon, has tabled Kysor...

TWO new rigids have been announced for the UK market by DAF. Part of the 2100 series, the new models are in the 16 and 24-ton...

DERBY City Transport has reviewed its fleet requirements and is exchanging some double-deckers for secondhand luxury coaches....

PSV safety expert told bus and coach operators in Dundee last ek that the Traffic Commissioners now required more tailed and...

GEORGE MANSON of Edi burgh was an excelle mechanic, the Industri Tribunal, Scotland, decidi when it rejected his claim unfair...

IT WAS inevitable that there would be some bus fare increases, given the general increase in prices and wages, admitted...

T ERE were to be an iur e of Japanese lorries m I eland into Britain, this int y would press the ropean Commission exmei)/ hard...

to constant height BRITISH coach operators, unlike their European counterparts, have traditionally regarded air suspension...

I write as the wife of a Continental driver to say that I feel it is time something should be done in defence of lorry drivers....

Ron Douglas's article "Driving for Profit'' (CM July 21) is intriguing. It seems to me there is a limit to the gadgets you can...

in Oxfordshire creates the misleading impression that the county council and City of Oxford Motor Services are still at...

E Daimler-Benz is still Lrr ing out long-term preuction tests of turboed V-diesels in 6-, 8and under configurations, vis bus...

BELGIAN legislators are soon to discuss a motion which proposes that all heavy motor vehicles, trucks and buses be fitted with...

WE DO not often get the chance to try out crosscountry vehicles, so when Saviem told me of a demonstration SM8 4x4 vehicle...

USING rubber instead of steel for the springing on commercial vehicles, particu larly trailers, can offer many advantages to an...

THE OLD cliché "out of sight, out of mind" is one that can certainly be applied to the road springs of a vehicle, writes Steve...

Two rather different entertainments figure in the autumn programme of the Transport Managers' Club London Area. Johnny Speight,...

It is ironic that a traditionally seafaring nation such as Britain should never have won the Americas' Cup throughout the...

After listening to Richard (now Sir Richard) Marsh, then a Labour Minister of Transport, address a meeting of hauliers in...

If the inclusion of coal mines in sight-seeing tours grows, I foresee the miners demanding entertainment bonus on top of...

It is a great credit to the Morris 5cwt 50cu ft van that 453 of the 8,500 bought by the Post Office between 1953 and 1971 are...

If you call a company Alltransport International you must expect some queer jobs in odd places. One recent assignment was to...

Cite-flying with one-off jobs ised to be common at the :ommercial Motor Show. I loubt whether some ever urned a wheel under...

suspension LONDON Transport, which has had unhappy recent experiences with modern, offthe-peg buses, has been researching its...

THERE is absolutely no doubt that the most annoying thing that can happen to an owner-driver is an avoidable boil-up. When this...

THE ORIGINAL design of the Hendrickson tandem bogie suspension dates back to 1926. Although design improvements and stronger...

Steve Gray turns his thoughts to dampers MAY SEEM strange that !hide manufacturers fit rings and then go to great igths to...

David Norbury, Thomas Meadows and Co Ltd's Norwich office, is moving to Tokyo to become Japanese manager of AFA-Meadowsfreight....

John Ilsley has become Pressed Steel Fisher's director of manufacturing engineering. Latterly Swindon body plant director, Mr...