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19th November 1965
19th November 1965
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Scotland Approves

F ORAYS North of the Border are not to be undertaken lightly, if history is any guide. So it was doubly reassuring to The...

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COMMERCIAL FREIGHT IN LINER TRAINS

From a Special Correspondent WHEN experimental liner trains left YV London and Glasgow at almost the same moment on Monday...

No 'Early Warning' Obligation for Hauliers

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT R OAD haulage charges will escape the Government's " early warning system" on proposed...

OBSERVER CORPS FOR GRIMSBY

A VEHICLE observer corps is now in ra. operation in Grimsby, run by members of the Grimsby sub-area of the Road Haulage...

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PROGRESS ON SPEED SCHEDULES

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT QOMF. progress on faster running " schedules for fuel tanker drivers was recorded last week...

HAULIER'S CONVICTION QUASHED I AST week, Somerset Quarter Sessions allowed an appeal by an Ansford

haulier, Mr. S. C. Hicks, against convie tion h Wincanton magistrates for permitting an offence concerning the hours of...

Carries 19 tons of Cement

A A FRAMELESS, pressurized hulk powder tanker—carrying a 19-ton payload within a g.t.w. of 28 tons—has been introduced to...

New UK-Italy Groupage Service Starts nuE to start today (Friday) is a regular

1.-1 weekly groupage service from London to Milan operated by Channel Road Services. Parcels Of a few kilos upwards can be...

Big Names for Maintenance Quiz • N EXT Monday, in Birtningham, an

open meeting of the West Midland Maintenance Advisory Committee will be in the form of a top-level brains trust. The chairman...

Safe Driving Awards MWENTY-TIIREE drivers of BRS Parcels Ltd. from

most of the London-area depots were presented with RoSPA safe driving awards by Mr. A. F. Walton. London parcels manager, on...

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'Take Care When Buying New Vehicles'

A LL orders for vehicles which are not likely to be used before 1967 should be placed conditional on the attainment of minimum...

PALLET POOL A STEP NEARER

nECISIONS which strongly increase the chances of establishing a UK pallet pool were taken on Monday at a meeting in London of...

BRS Purchasing Officer Retires

THE purchasing officer of BRS Federation Ltd., Mr. A. H. Passey, retired on Monday, when a presentation lias made to him at a...

HELP!

USING Pye mobile radio equipment, an Li extensive security and assistance service is to be offered to hauliers by Securicor...

When a Salesman is a 'Driver'

1-1 . A SALESMAN driving a goods van in the course of his employment was at that moment employed as the " driver " of the van....

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Ferry Rates Cut

MEW reduced rates for containers I / 4 carried on Wallenius Lines ferries between Harwich, Copenhagen and Bretnerhaven have...

NEWS IN BRIEF Dealers for III Loadstar Trucks: R. Cripps

and Co. Ltd. has signed dealer contracts with International Harvester Company of Great Britain Ltd. for the supply of the new...

Specialized Storage Systems on Show

9 -1 HY: first specialized storage exhibition at the New Horticultural Hall, Westminster. this week) was relatively small,...

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Threat to Haulier's Fuel supplies

From a Special Correspondent QHORTLY before an official strike at the Walsall Wood depot of Collins Express Parcel Service Ltd....

'LUNATIC DECISION' ON ROADS

W HEN the Commons resumed the debate on the Queen's Speech this week Opposition Front Bencher Sir Martin Redmayne moved an...

Rear-end Fog Warnings

rr HE . provision of rear-facing fog lamps, , particularly on commercial vehicles, was suggested by Tory transport spokes-....

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Sir Philip Warter has been formally reappointed by thc Minister

of Transport . as the part-time chairman of the Transport Holding Company for a further period of two years. Sir Philip's...

Obituary

W E regret to record the death of Mr. E. Briggs. Mr. Briggs had been chief engineer of the Tees-side Railless Traction Board...

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Excursions Grant

O N Tuesday the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners, granted in part an application by Charles Wood Ltd., of Brighouse, which would...

North Western Battle Over Excavated Materials

THE hearing of an application involving the conveyance of excavated materials, adjourned from September 6, was resumed before...

Eastern LA Suspends One Vehicle

A T Wisbech on Tuesday the Eastern Licensing Authority, Mr. W. P. S. Ormond, suspended one articulated vehicle from the A...

J. K. Allan Bought

r"1"HE owners of North Lines Haulage group, Davison's Transport and other haulage firms, London and Northern Securities Ltd....

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GRANT FOR WALLPAPER

B LCADSE customers objected to the delays and squashed loads which occurred w hen what were described as professional hauliers...

11-licence Application to be Republished

TH South Eastern deputy Licensing F Authority, Mr. A. C. Shepherd. decided at Eastbourne on Monday that an application by S. C....

BIG DIG A SUBSIDIARY of Hall and Nam River -CILtd.,

!tall and Co. Ltd., has applied to Watfold RDC for permission to excavate 8.4m. tons of sand and gravel on Great Westwood...

Tribunal Reserve Decision on THC Appeal

AST week at the Transport Tribunal, it was submitted by Mr. R. M. Yorke, representing the Transport Holding Company (BRS). that...

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Painful Publicity to Deter

A T Eastbourne recently, when Maj.-Gen, A. F. J. Elmslie presided at the first special hearing in the South Eastern Area...

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Takeover Risks

TAKEOVERS in transport occur pretty I frequently; that there are risks in the process to the parent company is well illustrated...

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Air of Suspicion ' Tribunal is Told T HE Transport Tribunal was

told in London last week by Mr. M. McGregor-Johnson that when the Western Licensing Authority heard two applications from a...

New One-man Regulations P

LONDON TRANSPORT REJOINS PTA S PEAKING at the annual dinner of the Public Transport Association in London last week, Mr. Tom...

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12-METRE COACHES TEST CASE

A N application by Continental Camping Tours (London) Ltd. to be heard in the Metropolitan Traffic Court on November 30 could...

No Agreement Yet on Municipal Busmen's Claims

FROM OUR 1NDUSTRI1L CORRESPONDENT U NEXPECTED snags developed in London last week when the National Joint Industrial Council...

SUNDERLAND SHOWDOWN WITH NORTHERN GENERAL?

T HE first real hurdle in its ambitious attempt to introduce one-man buses in conjunction with a flat fare of 4d_ (or just over...

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Pavement Is 'Fun Security' for Pedestrians L AST week the Court

of Appeal held 1 --# that if a person walking near the edge of the pavement was struck by the overhangine part of a vehicle,...

SHOULD BUS COMPANIES PAY FOR TOILETS?

" HAVE the bus and oil companies been the on the subject of meeting the cost of providing roadside toilets in return for...

Minibus Stage Service for Leeds?

DISCUSSING THE REAL NEEDS OF URBAN TRAVELLERS A DDRESSING the Yorkshire section I - A of the Institute of Transport at Leeds...

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Technical and Industrial

New Trophy for Safety Features A T the premiere showing of a new film about brake linings the sales director of Small and...

Three-axle Semi-trailer from Crane Fruehauf

N OW available in the standard range of semi - trailers manufactured by Crane Fruehauf Trailers Ltd. is a three-axle unit...

MURFITT AGREEMENT WITH US COMPANY

A N Anglo-American trade agreement has been reached by Murfitt Bulk Transporters Ltd,, Wisbech, and the Dodge City. Kansas, e...

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New Maximum-capacity Semi-trailers from Fromant

I N January next year Fromant and Son (Trailers) Ltd., of Felpham, Bognor, Sussex, are to launch a range of maximum-capacity...

BEDFORD BOOM LARGE AEC ORDERS ANNOUNCED QPEAK1NG at a Press

luncheon: in k7-. 1 Glasgow last week, Mr. G. E. Moore, , .ales manager of Vauxhall Motors Ltd.,' said that registrations of...

European Service Arra ngements for Cummins

Record Guy Orders: A record volume of orders---worth more than Vm.—was received by Guy Motors Ltd; . during the first week of...

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ROAD AND WORKSHOP by HANDYMAN

Courtesy with a Purpose TUST as there is criticism levelled at J road transport drivers for their use of head, tail and fog...

Yorkshire Rea der Wins Prize THIS week's prizewinner is Mr.

C. M. 1 Wood, Main Street, Shipton-byBenningbrough, Yorks. It concerns the testing of semi-trailer air-brake systems when a...

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NEW EQUIPMENT

and Publications Bulk Feeder-unit A BULK feeder-unit designed for use on pressurized-discharge 'powder and granular material...

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BIRD'S• EYE

VIEW By The Hawk "French Cheese. . . oui !" is the notation on the side of this veteran Renault bus. It was photographed at...

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HIGHER FARES

are not the answer A family concern in rural Somerset claims that co-operation by big p.s.v. companies could pay off all round...

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Kelvin Hall Shows Them All

New models introduced in the past year join those featured in 1964 at Earls Court to make this year's Scottish Show the most...

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Space Limitations Keep Out Big-goods Exhibits

T HE extent to which the new Construction and Use Regulations promote increases in the useful payload capacity of rigids and...

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WAGES AND EFFICIENCY

U NLESS action can be taken fairly soon the opportunity for a sensible and progressive agreement on road haulage wages may be...

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FMC

FLEET MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE F OR the second year running, The Commercial Motor Fleet Management Conference—held this week at...

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Foresight and Enterprise

IN welcoming delegates to the Conference, the chairman, James Amos, emphasized its importance as shown by its wide...

THE STATUS OF THE ROAD TRANSPORT EXECUTIVE

T HE first query that will arise in the minds of most people when they read the title of this paper will be" What is a road...

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NON-TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY IN ROAD TRANSPORT

T HE requirements of efficiency depend on the "nature of the animal ". What sort of an animal, then, is transport? It is rather...

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COSTING AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO RATES

STRUCTURE MR. ANDREW DUNN, T HE fact that the first investigation of the National Board for Prices and Incomes was into road...

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Invest in a money-saving Bedford CA Van watch your profits grow!

Savings on low-cost petrol, The Bedford CA van is designed to give top performance and m.p.g. on the cheapest commercial fuels....

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FMC BRAINS TRUST:

VEHICLE DESIGN AND VEHICLE DESIGN AND MAINTENANCE A S can be seen from the pictures and captions above, " the four members of...

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Get Your Priorities Right

Because transport is a service industry it should not therefore be relegated to secondary consideration when manufacturing and...

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IN YOUR OPINION

Scheme to Reduce Motorway Accidents B EING responsible for some 120,000 miles of motoring each month, we respectfully suggest...

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What are Transport Examinations For ?

WHAT function do transport examinations fulfil? What do they set out to prove? Are the examining methods used the right ones?...

NEW COMPANIES

Sidney Vinden (Haulage Contractor) Ltd. Cap. tioo. Dirs.: S. Vinden and M. Vinden, 312 Turncroft Lane. Stockport. Sec.: G. W....