The results of an investigation into operators' feelings about the Ministry of Transport, published in CM this week, support...

GOVERNMENT REJECTS 57 VARIETIES OF LORDS' AMENDMENTS from our political correspondent • The Government, as forecast in CM...

by John Darker • The ignorance or indifference of so many road transport concerns to the advent of plating and testing was...

The Minister of Transport believes that • - tachographs are an essential element in • the proposed new arrangements for...

Accent on training by John Darker • At Windsor this week training needs at all levels of the removals industry have featured...

threat from our industrial correspondent • An "action group" composed of shop stewards and conveners from London, the South,...

• Added impetus will be given to many aspects of training with the advent of legislation described in the Transport Bill, if...

• The last conference in London last week of the National Traders Traffic Association before it becomes part of the wider...

truck drivers CM sponsors facilities with BSM LATER this year or early in 1969 many goods vehicle drivers will need to pass...

• The Motor Agents' Association is urgently considering the possibility of compiling and publishing a comprehensive register...

• An important proposal by the RHA and TRTA to the Transport Manager's Licence Committee to set up an administering board is...

by Roger Howell Increased USA service from Felixstowe THE first operator to establish a US container service from the...

battery electrics • The Ministry of Technology has agreed to back the development of a zinc-air battery designed to offer...

• Two Lorry Driver of the Year competition • centres have arranged their 1969 venues and dates. • The new South Wales...

• The Minister of Transport has decided to discontinue the National Road Safety Advisory Council, set up in 1964 to review...

At Billingham • Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, Northern LA, opening the new 14-acre transport and storage depot of R. Durham and Sons...

• AEC was awarded the Automobile Club de France cup for driving-cab design at the Paris International Motor Show. The...

by Tony Wilding • Disappointment and discouragement are reported to be the main reaction among officials of the EEC in...

All eight members of the board of Bain and Hodge Ltd.. the 700-vehicle hauliers, unanimously agreed this week to recommend...

• Eight hundred lorry drivers and mates in Bradford are threatening an unofficial pay strike from November 1. They are...

• Sir Norman Kipping, vice-chairman of the Fulton Committee. Dr. C. G. Williams, of Ricardo and Co., and Mr. H. H. Gott....

• Rootes Motors Ltd.. has announced its preliminary results for the year ended July 31. Operating profit before taxation...

double decker • The Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co Ltd. has had in service . a Daimler Fleetline with Alexander...

• Considerable interest was shown in the new Bristol VRT rear-engined double-deck bus chassis and in the Plaxton-bodied LH...

• Exeter transport undertaking's loss this year could be as much as £30,000, Exeter City Council has been told by the city...

• Although most of the departments operated by Coras lompair Eireann during the 1967-68 year were profitable there was a net...

• Gateshead Corporation has refused an application by the National Union of Vehicle Builders for higher wages for...

• loT president loss of variety. . warns busmen • "I believe that if we do not set our minds against further...

p ay deal from our political correspondent • The Prices and Incomes Board has turned down a three-part pay and productivity...

• The operations of Scout Motor Services Ltd. are to be absorbed by Ribble Motor Services Ltd. and its. Blackpool subsidiary,...

The SMMT's categorization scheme for articulated vehicles provides a valuable means of ensuring the best possible matching of...

• Because another wages award and the effects of the pending Transport Bill had not been taken into account when the fares...

• In order to secure the withdrawal of an objection to its application to convert some vehicles from rigids to artics, an...

Dr. J. H. Weaving, 50, chief engineer, Tractor Division. British Leyland Corporation, on Wednesday was elected chairman of the...

• Following the conviction of 10 drivers at Altrincham magistrates' court last week (CM October 11) more charges were brought...

Commissioners, said he felt that unless the three operators of excursions and tours in Halifax could come to some agreement in...

which had twice the capacity of its present one and whose business had not increased, should not be granted the variation,...

• The growing versatility of battery-electric vehicles was strikingly demonstrated last week by a parade of a dozen models...

• A report has been published by the Road Research Laboratory of an assessment that has been made of the Hope anti-jack-knife...

by Handyman Manpower, maintenance and the MoT (14) • Once a new driver's in-the-garage instruction is completed, he should...

• Third axle conversions in which a selftracking axle is added behind the driving axle of a four-wheel goods vehicle are now...

Speculation is now bubbling about who is going to be made chairman of the Scottish Transport Group which will be responsible...

The Transport Managers' Licence Committee is not a tool of Government, the national chairman of the Industrial Transport...

I must say Sir Donald Stokes is pulling no punches in putting the plain facts about British Leyland's competitive position to...

Although the old "B"-type General bus was first put on London's streets way back in 1910 and left the routes in the early...

Nostalgia was in the air for the older members at the IRTE meeting in Manchester recently when Albert Wood of the CWS recalled...

What effect would a Channel Tunnel have on the future pattern of transport operations? This question has a way of cropping up...

Here's a tip for the technical lads to argue about. The engineering department of Swift Transport Services (Private) Ltd., of...

AR NIGHTS BENEATH THE STARS FIGURES speak for themselves, particularly to transport managers who want to effect economies, so...

Clash of symbols SYMPATHY is bound to be felt for those members of the Road Haulage Association who have spoken out loudly...

What do road transport operators think of MoT area engineers and officials? This $64,000 question is highly topical as...

articulated vehicles with air brakes. Tractors are either plated three-fine braked models or older maximum capacity two-line,...

A Applicants for a full carrier's licence may be granted a short-term licence for a specified period pending determination of...

obtain a job as a heavy goods driver but have been unsuccessful because of my age (I am 21) and my limited experience (vehicles...

of the two-shaft type and incorporate variable nozzles between the two turbines to enable fuel consumption to be improved and...

licence to the local Traffic Commissioners six weeks ago and have not yet had a reply. The clerk in the traffic office of my...

THE SYSTEM of written examinations comes periodically under fire and is at present being subjected to another barrage. The...

intended prosecution SECTION 241 of the Road Traffic Act 1960 and Section 51 of the Road Traffic Act 1962 list offences where...

Four new products are featured by Joseph Lucas Ltd. at the Motor Show which opened on Wednesday. The new Lucas Quikafit urn ,...

Wickham Industrial Equipment Ltd. has recently produced a mobile hotand cold-water washer designed to be used with a variety of...

Recent additions to the Nilfisk range of vacuum cleaners, produced by Tellus Super Vacuum Cleaner Ltd. include the GV21 which...

The Mountbank Engineering Co. Ltd. of Leeds, maker of the Kole-Bins storage system, is to introduce a unit called the MiniBin....

A catalogue prepared by C. A. Norgren Ltd. gives details of the company's compressed-air processing equipment. This includes...

A snap-in 12-way mains connector block announced by the Carr Fastener Co. Ltd. has been designed to accept a 7/0.0641n. maximum...

A windscreen washer detergent made by D. P. Taylor Ltd. is prepared specifically for use in screen-washers. Called the X4, it...

Heat Plant Ltd. has recently introduced a modified version of its 120.000 Btu/hr Domino vertical heater. It features more...

From Laycock comes a commercial-vehicle brake-tester which enables operators to check whether vehicle brakes are up to the...

A range of front-controlled. completely transistorized. Philips mobile radio-telephones (type CMT) for use in all types of road...

Recommendations that tubeless tyres being repaired for punctures should be patched on the inside as well as plugged from the...

The research laboratories of the Albright and Wilson Group have developed a paint with the aim of speeding up vehicle painting....

just been introduced by In gersoll Locks Ltd, which claims that it makes lorry hijacking virtually impossible. The device is...

An interior light is one of a number of refinements incorporated in the latest Cyclone bus interior cleaners produced by Dawson...

A liquid systems flow controller has been developed by Liquid Systems Ltd.. to facilitate the operation of liquid deliveries...

An optical tachometer known as the 643 announced by V. L. Churchill and Co. Ltd., is specially suitable for compressionignition...

all-steel lift-off bulk body for rries introduced by Lockwood raders (UK) Ltd., has a selflloading body designed priarily for...

An air-pressure-operated clutchcontrol system developed by the Lockheed Hydraulic Brake Co. Ltd. combines a conventional...

Transletters Ltd, has announced that Transletters self-adhesive water-slide letters are available in packs. Each pack contains...

of mirrors from Wingard Ltd. measures 15 . +in. by 6in. and is baed on a type used extensively by hauliers in America. To...