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19th April 1968
19th April 1968
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New FJ Reliability

Durability, braking and cold starting tests round the Arctic Circle. New FJs beat sub-zero challenge. Our new FJs are going...

6,000 Arctic miles Easy work for the FJ

The two test FJs left Helsinki on 24th January and arrived at Rovaniemi, the centre of the logging area on the Arctic Circle,...

Starting on the button at 25° below zero

Leave a truck out in the Arctic night with the temperature dropping to -25°F, and you might expect a bit of starting trouble in...

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Here's what Fl peakprofit performance means to you . . .

reliability ... economy ... capacity What's the secret of Ffs high profit performance? Keeping a careful eye on costs, BMC...

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How Mr. Horn mode giant progress

This is Mr. A. P. Horn. He is Transport Director of Progressive Deliveries Holdings Ltd., and that is the largest independent...

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Commercial Motor

Quantity licensing provided an appropriate—and we hope salutary—baptism of fire for Mr. Richard Marsh when he attended his...

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The week

No testing scheme for Scotland this year? TRTA TO FIGHT TOO-SEVERE INSPECTIONS: HOPES FOR MORE PRACTICAL APPROACH TO TRANSPORT...

Full o-m-o agreement or no bonus

• Doubts have been expressed about clarity of paragraph 97 of the Natic Board for Prices and Incomes Report No (Productivity...

Driver training

• Training courses for tanker drive run by Hargreaves Transport Ltd., Mal Street, Rothwell, Leeds, are open to e ployees of...

United absorbs Durham District

• Durham District Services Ltd. la company formed at the end of 1950 when three north east independent operators, fearing...

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Investment grants for hydrogen trailers

BOC'S SUCCESS AGAINST BoT • The British Oxygen Co., in the Chancery Division last week, substantially won its action claiming...

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BRS grasps the nettle

by John Darker • A BRS spokesman last week criticized speculative press reports (not in CM) on the content of the joint...

Militants urge national haulage strike

ALEX KITSON CHALLENGES THE ACTION GROUP from our industrial correspondent • A national "road haulage strike is to be urged...

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Ergonomic clothes make their transport debut

by John Darker • The design of clothing for surface transport workers seems a very far cry from space flight problems. Despite...

H aulage strikes drag on

• About 168 drivers in two Liverpool companies are on strike because their employers refuse to negotiate on the £16 for a...

Mr Marsh at TRTA dinner

• Mr. Richard Marsh will take Mrs. Castle's place as principal guest speaker at the TRTA annual dinner at the London Hilton...

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Preferential rail rates worry international commerce

• The International Chamber of Commerce is gravely concerned at the intentions of European countries adopting transport...

Pilot training schemes for Northern Ireland

• Following the successful management training conference held by the Road Transport Industry Training Board for Northern...

,Anglo-German quota to be reviewed

• The quota under the Anglo-German bilateral agreement will be reviewed in mid1968. Members of the RHA's international group...

Weekly refrigerated transport service to Park

• A weekly refrigerated road transpori service, particularly designed for small lots, was inaugurated yesterday Thursday). The...

Lightweight container from Finland

• A robust, lightweight container construc ted of self-supporting plywood panels of ; new design, bolted to a steel frame, has...

To handle meat traffic

• Fairfield Haulage Ltd., Liverpool, ha formed a new company, Fairfield Transi Southern Ltd., to handle containerize'...

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Slow progress on export routes

A progress report by a working party of the Economic Development Committee for he Movement of Exports criticizes the slow...

A 'smalls' rate war between road

and rail? by John Darker • Low rates are being quoted by British Rail's freight sundries division covering freight between 281b...

Road stations wanted for lorries

• The construction of road stations for goods vehicles as a contribution towards the relief of heavy vehicular traffic in towns...

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Transport grants for blown timber

• Rates of grants to assist in the removal of trees blown down in the January hurricane were announced by the Secretary of...

Thermal testing of vehicles? •

• The Ministry of Technology has asked road transport associations for an estimate of the number of vehicles and containeft...

No carnets for EEC

• The Common Market countries are proposing to introduce in July 1969 a single transit document to cover all crossfrontier...

1 m take-over

• A Littlemore, Oxford, business, started by the village carrier about 60 years ago with a horse and cart, has been sold for...

Heinrich Nordhoff

The head of the vast VW organization, Dipling. Heinrich Nordhoff, died o Friday, aged 69. Professor Nordhoff. who was president...

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Labour MPs slam luantity licensing

Mr. Richard Marsh, newly appointed Minister if Transport, joined the Commons Committee al the Transport Bill last week for the...

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Does parcels taxi need a licence?

• An Ormskirk taxi driver told the NorthWestern deputy Licensing Authority in Liverpool last week that he was not sure whether...

Appeals fail

• Appeals lodged by Cumberland Motor Services Ltd., Northern General Transport Co. Ltd., and United Automobile Services Ltd....

'Renewal would boost objection'

• A haulier objected to a competitor's licence renewal in Liverpool last week, contending it would enhance the competitor's...

Railways have Stansted capacity

• Little progress was made in the second and final day of the Stansted applications being heard in the Metropolitan Traffic...

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Jo prima facie case iribunal tells haulier

In a written judgment, the Transport ibunal has refused the appeal of A. J. 11 against the decision of the South Eastern...

ares protest fails

Protests by 32 local authorities against :e increases by United Automobile Seres were rejected by the Northern Area . affic...

Four for waste

• In Liverpool last week, Waste Clearance Ltd. was granted four additional vehicles to carry industrial waste for disposal or...

'Gamble' for B licence alleged

• A plant hire firm admitted in Manchester on Wednesday that when it had purchased a low-loader to operate under C licence it...

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First o-m-o Panthers for

Liverpool Exterior view of one of Liverpool City Transport's new MCW-bodied rear-engined Leyland Panthers by Derek Moses •...

London deal vetoed new clash likely

from our industrial correspondent • A proposed productivity deal which would give a week rises to 33,000 London busmen has been...

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7 eeder-buses and circular routes proposed

n Glasgow study report Clydesiders in 1990 will make vastly re journeys than today but relatively ver will be within the city....

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Tees-side problems

• In a report to the transport committee of the new Tees-side County Borough, formed on April 1, Mr. W. C. Wilson, general...

Liverpool peacemakers shouted down

from our industrial correspondent • The strike of 3,400 Liverpool busmen entered its sixth week with no sign of a peace...

Do pub mini-buses break law?

• Mr. Julian Ridsdale, MP for Harwich, said last week that he was prepared to introduce a Bill in the House of Commons if...

Long hours, PIB told

• A 3.8 per cent increase in the shortage of municipal bus crews since December is stressed in the written evidence to the...

New coach/air route to Jersey

• Southdown Motor Services Ltd. is introducing a coach/air service in May to the Channel Islands via Southampton. It replaces a...

Pickirig-up point must move

• Smith Tours (Wigan) Ltd., will have to move its St. Helens picking-up point from outside its booking office to another site,...

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lake-by-make lutput figures

Although still incomplete, a list of proiction figures for cars and commercial :hicks, make-by-make, just published by e SMMT...

Transportation Engineering Conference

• The Integration of Freight Movement', covering road, rail, ports and airports aspects, is one of the sessions arranged for...

Conurbation transport planning new techniques

• Methods employed in the present-day practice of transport planning for conurbations were the subject of a talk by Mr. R. B....

House-section trailers built like bridges

• A number of special semi-trailers are being built by Reynolds Boughton of Amersham for the transport of pre-fabricated house...

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32 tons on four axles

Bristol breakthrough into Eire • The first new heavy-duty Bristol coach chassis to be ordered for Irish private operators...

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New equipment and publications

Load protector A load protector in the form of a right-angled strap guide is being marketed by "W" Ribbons Ltd. Of plastics...

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EROM 71111 by Les Oldridge AIRTE, AMIMI

HOWEVER CAREFULLY a fleets maintained, there comes a time when every operator is faced with the problem of towing a broken down...

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Road and workshop

by Handyman Vehicle recovery: tricks, trucks and tactics (12) • In part 11 I wrote about two examples of vehicle recovery....

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Bird's eye view

* On getting the sack "Appointments and situations" is a wellthumbed section of CM so I'm told; people even go to the extent...

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(4 1 1 : 1 ) Ford Escort 6-cwt van

performance to match its appearance FIRST IMPRESSIONS are always a matter for caution, especially those of a completely new...

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PLATING WHAT PENALTIES?

THE PLATING and braking regulations wit] which all road hauliers must learn to compl . will bear with considerable hardship on...

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This torque is revolutionary look at the power behind it

The Commer Maxiload offers far more than the profit earning potential of a body/payload allowance of 11/ tons. Its Rootes...

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BOOKS

The lorry driver • Described as a study in occupational sociology, The Lorry Driver by Peter G. Hollowell (published by...

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HOWEVER MUCH operators may deplore the thought of working their

fleets around the clock, to be honest they must agree that this is in many ways the only economical method of operation. With...

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He can't help being pretty near

EVENTS are floating the nationalized transport organizations into a position of power. They have made no efforts to bring about...

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Sam Buckley on

Assoc Inst T Management matters Tyre costs and fitness TYRES have always constituted an appreciable proportion of the total...

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"I We operate 12-seater p.s.v. mainly on school contracts. Insurance

aspects part what would be our legal position if a irer asked for packed goods to be carried nd delivered by the driver? If...

a As the operator who provided a coach for our club

has told us he is intending 'eking it off the road, we are considering -unning it ourselves. Would it be possible !o tax it as...

Cl Can you suggest any films, and the source from which they are available, which relate to transport mechanical handling?

A A comprehensive list of films on materials handling generally is contained in a catalogue of the National Joint Council on...

I am considering operating a Contract A licensed vehicle for

a fuel distributing company and expect to average 600 miles a week, with a 16-ton four wheeler. Could you give some guidance on...

Q How have the depreciation allowances for commercial vehicles changed recently and what is the present position?

A Dealing first with initial allowance, this was at the rate of 20 per cent from 1946 to 1949, then 40 per cent to 1952. For...

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Choosing books about road freight

SEARCHING for relevant books in road passenger transport is, as I indicated last week, a tough task, but the going becomes even...

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Automatic lubrication usually costs more.

!AROMATIC lubrication costs less!, Automatic chassis lubrication with Milomatic reduces maintenance costs, saves you oil, and...