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COM M ERCIAL MOTOR VOLUME 121 No. 3122 JUNE 18, 1965 THC Results - IT is sometimes hard to remember that the Transport...

The next seven days, June 18-24 Sun. Leeds round, Lorry Driver Competition, a t Montague Burton Ltd., Hudson Road Mills'...

WHEN representatives of the TRTA went Y to the Ministry of Transport on Tuesday to discuss the proposals for limiting the use...

THE RHA working party which is I collating information on costs and charges for presentation to the Prices and Incomes Board...

THC PROFITS UP TO £17.5m.—AND BRS DOUBLEC FROM OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT nOCTRINAIRE planners, blueprint merchants and the...

To sum up the future: the 'THC looks ahead with a measure of confidence, but reservations are necessary. These reservations...

T HE South Wales Licensing Authority, Mr, Ronald Jackson, stressed at Cardiff last -week that the recruitment of additional...

r I NVY two satisfactory offers to increase liaulage rates have been received by the Mendip tipper operators committee and, at...

for the lust official meeting of the National Negotiating Committee for the Road Haulage Industry (Hire or Reward) on July 13....

TW ENTY - SIX - YEAR - OLD _Edward 13rzozowski, a Polish driver who works for L.S.D. (Haulage) Ltd., of Gunness, became the...

N a number of cases the French A authorities are refusing permits for British semi-trailers destined for Spain via Antwerp. It...

formation of an international division to be based in Europe was announced this week by the White Motor Corporation of America....

From a Special Correspondent 'T'HE obstructive attitude of the Spanish authorities with regard to the enforcement of TIR...

T HE international department of the Road Haulage Association has recently compiled comprehensive lists of Customs posts...

A CONSIDERABLE reduction in time and labour is claimed for tA a modified delivery system, based on a purpose-built van, which...

with banks at various heights are provided at a centralized road haulage depot just completed in Holland. Said to be the...

TIISCUSSIONS of resolutions -LI from the areas are likely to form a major part of the Road Haulage Association Conference at...

international group of the RHA unanimously agreed that greater simplification of import documentation would facilitate the...

U K oil consumption reached a new record level in the first quarter of this year and sales of dery were up by 7.5 per cent, or...

C ASTELLATED ' 4 -0 fitments for the secure carriage of bicycles arc arranged longitudinally in a van built by Neville...

From a Special Correspondent O N Tuesday Mr. John Sparshatt, managing director of J. H. Sparshatt and Sons Ltd., put forward a...

I N response to reports of national stewards discussed at a meeting of the national executive committee of the Lorry Driver of...

44 -T-HE, test for all companies is that L employees don't leave—that tells you a lot about an employer ", was the pertinent...

Nip. TOM FRASER emphasized in M the Commons this week that he wants liner trains to operate from open terminals. He made this...

THE Minister of Transport told MPs L that he would consider extending the Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations, 1964, so as to...

a suggestion that legislation should he introduced to ensure that private industry got freight services at reasonable rates...

and B .C - 1. licences and about 1 per cent of all goods vehicles with a carrier's licence were operated by British Road...

success—to extend legislation about concessionary fares to include cases where the local authority was the principal...

THE Minister of Transport has just I received, and is considering, British Railways' proposals for modernizing its road haulage...

A N extensive survey of the shortfl comin g s in the transhipment of goods in this country was called for this week by Mr. C....

• or a National Bus Wages Plan? From our Industrial Correspondent O NLY a fortnight after receiving a 15s. a week pay rise,...

Chassis from Bedford Seen here we a Plaxtan prolorype from-entranee roach ein the new Bedford V. - 144 chassis, and a general...

circuits to front and rear axles. In the unlikely event of a failure in the servo assistance (air pressure with diesel engines...

A COACH driver who waited for over 20 minutes in a restricted street to take children home from a school in Vauxhall Bridge...

" rps ESTRICTIVE practices are by no I means universal in the bus industry but in varying forms they do exist and it is...

FINLESS there was a material abate ment ment of tax in the near future, the Aldershot and District Traction Co. Ltd. would be...

L'ARES increases from N. to 4d. applied for by East Midland Motor Services Ltd., Trent Motor Traction Co. Ltd. and Midland...

NEW OPPORTUNITY FOR COMMISSIONERS TO REVIEW FARES' 1 HE Minister of Transport has made no order on the Yorkshire Traffic...

TH REE London Transport RTW-type double-decker buses have been sold to a Canadian firm, Double Deck Tours Ltd. The buses will...

Tor EMBERS of Redcar (Yorks) highways IV - I and works committee have warned United Automobile Services Ltd. that it is in...

- U'lltST of the 50 experimental Leyland Atlantean double-deckers for London Transport are now completed, and delivery of 33 of...

From a special correspondent THE Ulster Transport Authority, I which aims to get rid of its railways in the next 10-15 years,...

Middlesbrough buses were hack to normal last week after busmen had lifted their ban on overtime. The ban was imposed because of...

has been elected chairman of the Public Transport Association upon the retirement of Mr. W. M. Dravers from the position which...

A Ta public inquiry at Manchester on Monday the North Western deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. A. H. Jolliffe, agreed to an...

UOUKTEEN haulage firms objected 1 last week to applications by Ipswich Delivery Service Ltd. for an A licence to operate four...

twice-weekly coach tours of Birmingham to enable citizens to keep track of rapidly changing city developments. Their...

Tilif application by Seville Tours Ltd., E or a licence to operate a series of excursions and tours originating at Glossop (The...

and Lancashire have decided to obtain the opinion of a financial expert on bus fare increases proposed by the North Western Car...

IF the deputy Licensing Authority had inquired into the rates aspect at the public inquiry. Mr. M. H. JacksonLipkin told the...

A LLEGATIONS by a customer wit ness at Birmingham on Wednesday that he had experienced great difficulty in obtaining vehicles...

the Northern General Transport Co. Ltd. and Venture Transport Co. Ltd. were granted by the Northern Traffic Commissioners on...

NORTHERN APPLICATIONS (June 9, 1965) A. Johnston and Sons, Berwick-on-Tweed, A var„ add 2 veh. (120. (It granted, contract A...

T HE training levy on employers in the iron and steel industry will be £7 for each person employed on April 2, 1965. This...

drawn up by the City and Guilds of London Institute for the 1965-66 session. Ti is in two stages, the first part to be covered...

Lancashire factories of Leyland Motors Ltd. are now being finished in a new " Desert Sand " paint which has a higher lacquer...

MONG the equipment on show at in. Earls Court, London. this week in the First Pumping Exhibition (which closes at 9 p.m....

to be manufactured at the Faverdale works of R. Ramsdell and Son Ltd., Darlington, recently entered service with...

R1NCE the increase in the rate of b J excise licences it has become even more important to study savings in unladen weight....

'THE screening of big thoroughfares is L one of the most promising methods of protection against noise, according to Soviet...

THE bulk grain carrier pictured here is one of four recently supplied to Russell of Bathgate by Duramin Engineering (Lydney)...

Alf OUNTED on a Guy Invincible 1 v 1 chassis, this three-compartment bulk grain transporter (left) is run by J. C. Harrison and...

T HIS bogie (above and right) is fitted with power steering and it is claimed that in a test carried out by the makers recently...

THE first Scammell Townsman in general service, one of ty,'o ordered. is being operated by E. H. Steele Ltd. of Bolton . who...

VELVET-RIDE FROM WHITE MOTOR CORP. T HE name Velvet-Ride has been given to a new tandem-axle suspension developed by the White...

Japanese Merger: The second and fourth largest motor manufacturing companies in Japan. Nissan Motor Co. and Prince Motors Ltd....

, Accident Investigation F OLLOWING any vehicle accident, it is to be expected that the first thoughts of the engineer...

Babbage, of Llanishen, Cardiff. He says that rapid disintegration of the rubber parts of the propeller shaft centre bearing...

and Publications Pneumatic Chipping Hammer T HE Thor LCH 300, a small but powerful pneumatic chipping hammer, developed by...

BY JOHN DARKER, AMBM Filling them in has cost at least Z500,000,000—why spend more on such an inefficient deterrent system?...

• but thoughtless persistent car parkers can wreck the 1 By P.A.C. Brockington AMI Mech E I T is axiomatic that the...

Class A—up to 16 ft. and from 201 cwt.: 1. W. Arnot (Nvacastle Chronicle and Journal Ltd.) COMMer. 71 penalty points: 2, D....

By Ashley Taylor A LTI4OUGH the run-off for overall winner at the Newcastle Lorry Driver of the Year round took place on a...

TWO new 8-ton heavy-duty chassis'. one for medium-wheelbase tipper work, the other designed to accommodate 211 ft.-long...

By The Hawk On the Skids Some IRTE members attend ing the S. Wales maintenance advisory committee Press conference last week...

n 15 Years By JOHN MATTHEWS CC E are really coach people and enjoy every minute of the work ", is how the Blundell...

P ROBABLY it will never be known with absolute certainty whether the Prices and Incomes Board has come to regret that it was...

Economic --by what standardP R EPEATEDLY in this series the implications of transport being a service industry have been...

By George Wilmot Lecturer in Transport Studies, University of London Factors Affecting Road Traffic -Changing Tastes in...

R.T.S. Scenery Transport Ltd. Cam £100. Objects: To carry on the business of shipowners, barge owners, lightermen, hauliers...