• Fifty new delivery vehicles for Lyons Bakery are currently being handed over by J. H. Sparshatt and Sons Ltd., of Portsmouth,...

On December 31 the Port of London Authority is closing the reception depot for small export consignments. which is located at...

• The Ministry of Transport has now • produced the form which will be used by applicants for operators' licences who are not...

• Operators who have changed their addresses during the currency of their licences, and have neglected to notify the...

• The Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co. Ltd. (Midland Red) and 45 of its drivers were ordered to pay fines and costs...

• Following widespread protests over the inadequacy of French and Italian road haulage permit quotas the 11/1oT on Monday...

• An association of owner-drivers and operators of small vehicles is being formed in Southampton by Trailer Clearance Co. Ltd....

• Three Northamptonshire lorry drivers who had false fuel tanks "expertly welded to their original lorry tanks to carry rebated...

• With the opening last Monday of the Elm Freightliner depot at Trafford Park, Manchester, new services come into operation. In...

• The majority of Scottish road transport operators have agreed to pay the cost of the h.g.v. licence fee, the test fee where...

• Hauliers in the Highlands are following those of north-east Scotland in increasing rates by at least 15 per cent from January...

• HTS (Hilton Transport Services Ltd.), of London, SE7, the rapidly expanding independent transport and warehousing group, has...

• British Leyland has received its largest ever order for heavy commercial vehicles from South Africa. Total value of the...

• On average the brakes of commercial vehicles were far better than the brakes of private cars, said Mr. J. Male, chairman of...

32 Hippo: 24 V8 Mandator: 24 V8 Mammoth Major 6 and 4 Mammoth Major 8 chassis. All the vehicles will be shipped in C.K.D. form...

• Due to a typographical error the word "not" appeared in an item about Top-dog linings in CM last week. The relevant sentence...

• The Road Vehicles (Headlamps) Regulations 1969 which make the fitting of headlamps obligatory on most twoand three-wheeled...

a suitable lead-in period, to be fitted with .dual intensity stoplamps will be made shortly. The regulations will allow...

• There are still one or two places open for the seminars which Commercial Motor is repeating in London next month, in...

seek higher rates by John Darker • Rapidly rising costs have compelled French road hauliers to present to their Minister of...

• The first British-registered example of a sleeper-cab Foden 32-ton gross articulated truck left Britain for Portugal on...

• The Royal Insurance Group has announced a new range of commercial vehicle policies from January 1. These are said to offer...

• The fast overland services of containers, low-loaders, tilts and refrigerated TIR trailers operated from London to the...

• - Containers constructed of steel or timber suitable for conveyance on road or rail . , use by British Railways rose from...

by David Lowe 1973 forecast IT IS forecast that 400,000 containers per year will be handled in the Port of Southampton by the...

A NEW RANGE of dry freight containers is to be launched in 1970 by Duramin Engineering Co. Ltd. The company, which will be...

• A new twice weekly roll-on/off and container service between the Tyne and Esbjerg (Denmark) has been inaugurated by the...

• It cannot be suggested that any new aspirant to the field of meat haulage should automatically be excluded from its magic...

• An application by K. J. and H. Condliffe of Middlewich, for a 111 ; -ton low-loader to be transferred from the applicant's C...

• Nine out of 14 applicants for B licences to undertake work on M62 motorway through C.M.A. Contractors Ltd., were each granted...

• A haulage contractor, Reginald Church, 60. of The Croft Cranfield Road, Wootton, Beds, who refused as a matter of principle...

• Two Swansea-based bus companies have been authorized by the Traffic Commissioners to introduce increased fares on January 1....

• The Yorkshire deputy LA, Mr. M. Gosnay, has granted applications by 11 drivers for the transfer to them of licences held by...

• G. Plant (Haulage Contractor) Ltd. of Macclesfield, was allowed to add five vehicles out of 16 which the company had wanted...

• The application by Freightliners Ltd. for 12 more artics on A licence was granted by Mr. A. C. Shepherd, South Eastern deputy...

• Errors in the application form meant the withdrawal of the application of Mr William Henry Byrne of Willow Street,...

• An appeal by Havant and Waterloo urban district council against fare increases granted to Southdown Motor Services Ltd. and...

• One of the special Blue Arrow buses which will start operating the first taxi-style bus service in Britain on December 29 was...

• Criticism of Leyland buses, voiced this week by Alderman R. Spain, Sunderland Corporation transport committee chairman, has...

• The initial directive that London Transport should make a profit of £2m a year to be directed to a reserve fund, under GLC...

• At a meeting of the Bradford passenger branch of the TGWU it was decided that, because of the number of assaults on bus...

goes on by Derek Moses • The insignia to be employed by the new Tyneside Passenger Transport Executive has now been chosen,...

• Three luxury coaches from NBC subsidiary companies last week demonstrated a further step in the process of integrating...

E. H. Leicester, 47. has been appointed London Transport director of commercial policy. Mr. Leicester has been fares and...

• Conditions which would allow London's buses overall journey speeds (including stops) of 10 m.p.h. in the Central Area and 15...

by Pa ii I Brockington • A new demountable body system and new applications of three established types of swop body currently...

• First of a new design of low-bed semi-trailers announced by Crane Fruehauf Trailers Ltd. is designed to carry 25-ton...

• Full management training status has been given by the RTITB to motor trade management courses for heavy vehicle distributors...

Loads and forces (31) • In the next and final article of this series I shall take a look at speed and the driver but there are...

• Overslung springs have been introduced on the rear bodies of Atkinson threeand four-axle heavy trucks and tractive units. A...

• Professor J. R. Ellis, of the Advanced School of Automobile Engineering. Cranfield, demonstrates in his book Vehicle Dynamics...

When I was learning to drive and we arrived at the "emergency stop - , which was about the only enjoyable feature of the whole...

Nothing could be more topical than the manual's reminder that "judging the speed and judging the distance of other vehicles are...

The Ministry book is written principally for car drivers and it contains a lot of elementary advice—but the foreword is right...

Colleague lain Sherriff, who appears to delight in wearing club ties, added another to his collection last week when he was...

How one company copes with expansion and contains costs by using its vehicles as mobile factory extensions by lain Sherriff...

When the managing director of H. Summers Ltd.. of Felixtowe, received the following driver's report which had apparently been...

provision for good cooling of the cylinder block is a much bigger thing. To maintain the coolant in the cylinder block at a...

by R. A. Layton, CEng, MIMechE, MIRTE, service manages - , the Arlington Motor Co. Ltd. A PROBLEM defined is a problem at...

All done by numbers ONCE it had been decided to limit the working day of a driver by law some system of records was necessary....

WITH OPERATORS' LICENSING SOON TO BE INTRODUCED IN BRITAIN, NORTHERN IRELAND'S EXPERIENCE OF TRANSPORT LIBERALIZATION TAKES ON...

A SPECIAL SERIES BY R. P. C. BLOCK 18. Proving the system PROBABLY the most successful companies are those whose...

AS TRAINING becomes an accepted part of the normal routine of transport organizations, "favourite" institutions are likely to...

concept in tipping bodies and gear I would like to build a prototype based on a 1 6-ton-g.v.w. chassis. What provisions does a...

books on the procedures, layout and running of a commercial operator's repair workshop, including a workshop store and...

have been employed with success in terms of increased efficiency, reduced costs and improved profits. I am trying to reorganize...

with a friend regarding the Midland Red company? Is a turbocharged or supercharged engine fitted in any of the company's...

November 14, I have a question on heavy goods licences similar to the one quoted. am a lorry driver of some 25 years, but I...

It is always the simplest task in the world to be critical of a transport examination scheme of study, suggesting a great many...

licensing (4) exemptions LAST week I began examining the details of operators' licensing. Before going any (5) further, I...