AT THE HEART OF THE ROAD TRANSPORT INDUSTRY.

Call our Sales Team on 0208 912 2120

18th December 1970
18th December 1970
Page 1
Page 1, 18th December 1970
Close

Page 24

Finland-built trucks for UK market soon

• Sales of SISU commercial vehicles —made in Finland by Oy Suomen Autoeollisuus AB—in the' UK will begin next year. For-Con...

Electric bus for Leeds

• Two prototype battery electric buses for use in city centres have been ordered by the Department of Trade and Industry. They...

Page 25

New smoke standard for 1972 vehicles

from our Parliamentary correspondent • The Government's determination to cut down fumes and noise from lorries has been...

Weights decision disappointment or industry?

• The announcement of the Government's decision on manufacturers' proposals for an increase in the present 32-ton maximum...

Good and bad results

• While the United Transport Company showed a pre-tax profit for the half year of £2,779.000 and is expected to pay an interim...

Forked-rates under fire

• Transport users in the Common Market want a system of guideline minimum-maximum tariffs to supersede the obligatory...

Plea for shorter lorries

• "We have not asked Mr Peyton for vehicles of 44 tons; we want to carry the same loads on shorter vehicles which would cause...

Show dates for 1971

• The following dates have now been confirmed for exhibitions next year which will feature commercial vehicles: Brussels,...

Page 26

Express parcels group

• The express parcels carriers in South Wales, Devon and Cornwall and the West of England who are members of the Road Haulage...

Move to annul levy fails

• An attempt to seek the annulment of the Industrial Training Levy (Road Transport) Order 1970 by the procedural device of...

Shop steward's dismissal

• Mr D. D. Boyd, the BRSL shop steward in Glasgow, has been suspended for four weeks following an appeal to the management...

New training centre for Bradford

• Yorkshire road hauliers were praised for leading the country in the provision of co-operative facilities and services by Mr...

Easier turns with long artics

• Samuel Williams (Transport) Ltd, of Dagenham, recently demonstrated a new type of semi-trailer which will effectively ease...

Page 27

Slum clearance is causing a shortage of depots

by Gordon Crabtree • Because of the effects of slum clearance and town planning schemes road hauliers in towns and cities...

Humber goes for US know-how

• Humber Warehousing Group has joined the Common Carriers Conference (Irregular Routes) of the American Trucking Association in...

HTS to diversify

• Hilton Transport Services, which went public last month, have launched a new division within the group. As part of his...

Page 28

The 70s, the age of the Distribution Man

by John Darker • The first International Physical Distribution Management Conference in London last week brought together some...

Page 29

'Bad egg' transport managers

• Despite recent legislation, there were still a number of inefficient incompetent transport managers operating fleets and one...

Decimal lecture

• At a one-day seminar for members of one of the RTITB's Business Improvement Groups at Leamington Spa last week CM staff...

Removals by container

• Member companies of CETI, the European consortium of international removal companies, have registered a marked increase in...

Equipment maintenance conference

• A series of papers covering such subjects as ease of maintenance as a design function. defect feedback systems and the cost...

Tail-lift extension

• A simple answer to the problem of carrying occasional overlength loads on a vehicle fitted with an hydraulic tail-lift has...

C of G weighbridge

• The Mersey Docks and Harbour Board is now operating what is thought to be the first weighing machine designed explicitly to...

Fridge boxes on Freightliner

• Following a series of successful trials, Frigoscandia Transport of King's Lynn is to start operating Bonallack refrigerated...

Page 30

Lords urge rural services review

• The amalgamation of Transport Users' Consultative Committees and the Traffic Commissioners into one body was advocated last...

BET's 10Ogns award

• The BET Road Passenger Transport Award will be available again for presentation in 1971. Offered annually by the British...

Contrasting concessions

• Uniform fare concessions for pensioners and disabled people have been rejected by one Passenger Transport Executive and...

Transport policy symposium

• A symposium for public transport policy makers is to be held by the University of Newcastle upon Tyne from March 23 to 25...

Page 31

NBC decentralization

• Six regions are to replace the present nine regions of the National Bus Company in connection with a new management structure...

No LT fares increases in 1971?

• No general fares increases are planned for London Transport next year, states a report from the policy and resources...

Livery change for Glasgow buses

• The possibility of having municipal buses in Glasgow painted in only one colour is being studied by the transport committee....

Stratford Blue turns Red

• Stratford-upon-Avon Blue Motors Ltd, and Neath and Cardiff Luxury Coaches Ltd are two undertakings affected by the latest...

BUS BRIEFS

• Leicester City Transport is applying to the East Midlands Traffic Commissioners for permission to raise its fares again; the...

Page 32

"The disturbed industry"

• "I do not take a defeatist attitude. I do not say that the bus is finished. There is much of great interest still to be...

J. J. Johnson succeeds A. G. Jones at Guy

Arthur George Jones, deputy chairman of Guy Motors, has retired; his successor is Joseph James Johnson, 50, who was righthand...

Page 33

Six GV9s after vehicle parade

• A Bristol transport company paid nearly £600 to a local garage for inspection and repair work to six vehicles when a vehicle...

Page 34

Licence curtailed after 16 prohibitions

• Spiralling costs of vehicle maintenance were referred to at a public inquiry in Aberdeen last week when Kelman of Turriff was...

LUT grant despite 14 objections

• Mr Charles Hodgson, chairman of the North Western Traffic Commissioners, granted an application for a fares revision to...

BRS fined for overloading

• British Road Services Ltd was fined £25 and ordered to pay five guineas costs, at Harlow magistrates' court this week, after...

0 licence changes for foreign operators

• The Goods Vehicles (Operators' Licences) (Temporary Use in Great Britain) (Amendment) Regulations 1970 were laid before...

Page 37

More power and less pollution from dual-fuel diesels

• The performances of dual-fuel diesel engines that take in up to 25 per cent of the combustible fuel in the form of liquefied...

Hydraulic wash unit

• A new range of hydraulically operated vehicle washing equipment, intended for vans, coaches, buses and transport containers,...

Page 38

Don't overdo metrication training, says BSI man

• Colonel Jack Vickers, manager of the British Standards Institution planning department, was highly critical of transport...

Rust prevention from the inside

• Prevention of rusting from the inside as well as outside is provided by a process employed by Endrust Autotruck Rustproofing...

40-ton tipper

• An Anthony Carrimore tipping semi-trailer with a 40-ton capacity—the heaviest carrying capacity of any ever built at the...

Page 39

George Hughes

• George Hughes has just entered the transport world by a sophisticated and unusual route. Earlier this year he formed a...

bird's eye view

by the Hawk Hotfoot, after reading last week's CM leader, I took myself off to Olympia to look at the National Careers...

Page 40

road and workshop

by Handyman Benchwise: lathe sense (39) THIS IS my penultimate article on the garage lathe and its value in decreasing...

Page 41

DON'T WAIT FOR CHANGE: GO OUT AND MAKE IT

by lain Sherriff, MITA A WELSHMAN EXPANDS BY CONTRACTING LAST year when speeding across Northern Europe in the...

Page 43

NBC IS IMPORTING DOLLARS, FRANCS, AND MARKS

SUCCESS through changing a trading pattern is not the sole preserve of the small operator nor is it confined to the private...

Page 44

iwp ASSENGER TRANSPORT by Gordon Crabtree

ASK Britain's hundreds of coach and tours operators what they most wish for in 1971 and they will answer, with one voice, an...

Page 45

'SAVE OUR SERVICES' CRY TOURS OPERATORS

evening cannot be accepted, even if the actual content of the work could in many cases be operated within the spreadover and...

Page 46

SILENCER CHANGE QUIETENS DANISH BUSES

by E. M. G. Gibbins COPENHAGEN'S entire bus fleet, numbering some 500 vehicles, is to be fitted with a specially evolved...

Page 50

WHICH ROAD FOR THE RURAL BUS?. by De ek.oses

"BETTER TO LET IT WEAR OUT THAN RUST OUT" ONE problem that successive British Governments seem unable to get to grips with is...

Page 53

letters

We welcome letters far publication on transport topics. Address them to Commercial Motor, Dorset House, Stamford Street, London...

Page 54

A GUIDE TO BODIES,

BODY BUILDERS AND BUS GRANTS THE range of specifications for buses designed to qualify for the 25 per cent Government rebate,...

Page 59

BRITISH BUSES AT THE CROSSROADS

by Derek Moses DESPITE all the gloomy reports of the troubles encountered by the bus industry during the past months and the...

Page 71

DEE 'ECM

by Derek Moses and David Lowe PASSENGER transport undertakings should be geared-up by now for the conversion (where necessary)...

Page 72

topic

Ask silly questions . . by Janus M ORE attention during the electricity dispute has been paid to selected and sometimes...

Page 73

• / believe I have read in the trade Press

that the Karrier Bantam tractive unit will _not meet future braking requirements. Could you let me have any information on this...

Q What is the explanation of fade when the brakes

have been applied over an extended period? Are disc brakes less likely to fade than drum brakes and if so why? And is mosture...

Q Contrary to what was stated in an

article by Les Oldridge in "Know the Law"—in the October 23 issue of Commercial Motor, any person in charge of a vehicle can be...

Q We employ several drivers on hgv duties but find

that on some weeks it is possible that a driver may not do any actual driving at all. He may be on site doing building work all...

has to be kept nor does he have to write "no driving on the record.

There are further exemptions as follows: 1. Drivers who drive goods vehicles for not more than 4 hours on each day of the...

Could you give us the postal addresses of HMSO bookshops as we have been unable to find these?

A The addresses of the Government bookshops which stock Her Majesty's Stationery Office publications are as follows: 49 High...

Page 74

'management

matters by John Darker AMBI M The end of carriers' licensing QUANTITY licensing, under a suspended sentence of death since...

Page 75

know the law

by Les Oldridge, AM - E, AMIM' Drinking and driving (2) LAST WEEK I was considering the defence to a charge of being "in...

Page 76

New Year resolution about transport examinations

EVERY YEAR I am amazed by what a minute proportion of time candidates who are preparing for transport examinations spend on...

new companies

L and S. Lawrence (Transport Services) Ltd. Cap,: £100. Dirs.: J. Lawrence, Susan Lawrence, 191 Tenniswood Rd, Enfield, Middx....

insurance

by John Vann, FCII The windscreen that s-h-a-t-t-e-r-e-d • Windscreen breakage cover has been associated with private car...