THE spirit of De Gaulle lives on. The negative French attitude to any British initiative, which the late French president...

GOVERNMENT proposals to levy a crash tax on vehicle insurance premiums were dropped this week — and this could save the...

A NORFOLK operator has offered a £500 reward for information leading to the killer of a 14-year-old girl after reports that she...

carried out by the Transport and Road Research Laboratory in parts of southern England. Scientists will be working from a...

THE question of access to the passenger transport profession has still not been resolved, and the Department of Transport is...

TOP LEVEL changes in the management structure of the National Freight Corporation were announced this week, following talks...

TRANSPORT Minister William Rodgers is to go on a tour of European countries for talks with EEC transport ministers following...

have reached a settlement in their dispute over the manning of new equpipment introduced by the brewers. In a statement issued...

TRAFFIC running to and from Dover will now be able to avoid the heavily congested stretches of the A2 running through the town...

ENVIRONMENTALISTS are launching an all-out campaign in a bid to stop the maximum weight limit being increased to 40 tonnes....

LORRY drivers are threatening to boycott Newmarket in Suffolk because the local council wants to ban heavy goods vehicles from...

RELIEF and contract drivers provided by Manpower UK will from now on come under a separate company in the Manpower group, known...

RESEARCH by the Transport and Road Research Laboratory has shown that noise and pollution drops significantly in a town when it...

BRITISH plans for a transport summit meeting of the nine EEC transport ministers have now definitely collapsed following a...

Robert Wynn and Sons has signed an agreement with East African haulier, Kenya Express, to provide a heavy transport service in...

Three into one A new transport and servicing group has been formed by the amalgamation of three companies taken over by the...

EIGHT drivers of Turners (Soham) Ltd, charged with obliterating records and failing to make proper entries were ordered to pay...

ALTHOUGH not yet available for the UK market, the Foden 36 tonne (35.4ton) six-wheeler heavy-duty truck is now being produced...

CORK Harbour is to have a new ro/ro ferry site at Ringaskiddy, in the upper harbour area. As part of a £121/2million...

FORD has increased its lead over Leyland in new commercial vehicle registrations from less than 100, in January 1976, to 903...

WHALE Tankers has more than doubled its 1975 export figures during 1976 — and it received orders worth more than £300,000 for...

CM's editor has just returned from a visit to a trans-Sahara expedition mainly sponsored by Saviem. His reports will appear on...

Money spinner AUTOQUIP 77 has been tipped as a big foreign currency. earner for Britain, with buyers from over 20 countries...

CARRYCARE, the specialist distribution service for china and glass and other fragile items, is to offer a direct distribution...

THE HEXHAM and Corbridge by-pass on the A69 in Northumberland was opened this week, removing a major bottleneck on the...

Western BRS changes Western British Road Services has appointed four new managers to take over its transport and rental...

ROAD signs on Merseyside are so poor they confuse more drivers than they help, it was stated at the monthly council meeting of...

Britain's municipal bus operators could be involved in a switch away from traditional means of acquiring new vehicles in favour...

THE Passenger Vehicles (Educational and Other Purposes) Bill was given a second reading in the House of Commons last week This...

Hail-a-bus A NEW "hail-a-bus" route using 16-seat Ford minibuses that will stop at any safe place on request, is to be started...

meeting in Hull organised by the Association of District Councils on March 29 and 30. • Although most of the Speakers will be...

DUPLE coachbuilders have designed a new interior front end for Ford coaches fitted with the inclined front engine option...

TELEPHONE bookings for .coaches could lead operators into trouble unless they make it clear that their following confirmation...

bus body to replace its present "Derwent" design which has now been in production for many years. The new design has not yet...

Up to now, it was only available for the Buffalo range, but the change means the engine is offered as an alternative to the...

ALL - WELDED aluminium construction is employed on the latest Tippermatic bulk coal and grain tippers from Charrold of...

A RADIO-OPERATED alarm system which dispenses with conventional hard wiring has been announced by Arma Systems, of 6 Cale...

DEMAND for truck tyres will grow relatively slowly over the next two to three years, says Dunlop. But radial-ply and tubless...

THE Oxford and Swindon Co-operative Society is having the York Hob( dual purpose tandem suspension fitted to its new trailers....

1 1 F ol e _ In last week's feature Toil the fuel drag', on devices for reducing aerodynamic esistance, the photographs and...

BRITISH RAIL made a stinging attack on road services, following charges levelled against it by road-based organisations. In a...

in the article on tachographs by the Liverpool driver ("Figures fit for a tacho, CM February 4). He indeed must be a very...

I wonder if it is possible, through CM, to thank publicly a Mr Cook and a Mr Brownell. These two gentleman helped me to enjoy a...

It is sad that John Darker, in his comments to Mr Webb (CM, January 21, "Dear Sir . sees the relationship between fitters and...

Depot Design" by John Durant (CM, January 28;). This, I believe, is the first time that the managerial discipline...

OPERATORS are constantly being told how much cheaper it is to run an electrically powered vehicle than it is to run one using...

Aussie bus Elroy Engineering, a small factory and design office at Pennant Hills, Sydney, Australia, has made a 116-passenger...

John Ratcliff of Advanced Vehicle Systems tai to Graham Montgomene on the economics of ALTHOUGH he is perhaps better known for...

'out batteries BATTERIES of one sort or another have been with us for more than 100 years, and today, there is virtually no...

THE Continentals are coming to terms with minibuses and midibuses. Previously, many undertakings jibbed at having to pay a man...

TRAVELLING down through Southam en route from Coventry to Oxford one day, I thought as we went round the narrow S-bend at the...

Crown Avenue, Dukestown, Tredegar, Gwent THE two-speed electric dairy vehicle from Crompton was designed to operate on former...

Heybridge Basin, MaWon, Essex INTRODUCED for the Earls Court Show last year, thi ElecTraction E.700 has a load platform length...

Banastree Road, Southport, Lancs FROM the Southport based company of Ross comes the Stallion, which is available with a large...

Team Valley, Gateshead on Tyne JSING the standard Cabac chassis as a base, Smith's builds a vide variety of bodies, of which...

LTHOUGH the greater pro)rtion of the W and E produc)n is devoted to dairy vehicles, le company also makes luipment for baggage...

tite bid ry bugs. . ELECTRIC delivery vehicles are becoming increasingly more popular for a variety of uses other than the...

HAULIERS in general spend very little money on prestige advertising. They may ask themselves from time to time about the need,...

VlANY more operators would )uy electric vehicles for town work, if only they understood )etter the commercial advantajes of...

Martin Watkins looks into an ambitious electric bus project set up by South Yorkshire PTE EVELOPMENT work on the lectric bus...