ULK" is an inoffensive little word that has taken LI on emotive overtones as a result of Mrs. Castle's ill-defined plans for...

ON NEW REGS By Ashley A NNUAL TESTING could make a bigger impact on the road transport industry than any other proposed...

AN EXPORT transport contract worth £200,000 has been awarded to the Coventrybased international transport company, Morton's...

THE Road Haulage Association has become a member of the Confederation of British Industry. Representatives on the CBI council...

THE ELEVENTH open meeting of the Association of Industrial Road Safety Officers is to be held at the Advanced Driver Training...

HEAVY-DUTY six-wheeled tractive units are to be used by Air Products Ltd. to haul seven big new liquid gas tanks on regular...

THE LOG OF A LONG, LONG HAUL SOBERING tale for any gold-seeking entrant into international haulage who thinks that all the...

By John Darker, AMBIM T HE CONTRIBUTION of organizational 'Boffin's" to efficient motor transport operation was exemplifi-xl at...

A VACUUM-BREAKING foot valve has been developed for road tankers by a recently formed company trading under the name of...

AT a Western Maintenance Advisory Committee open meeting attended by over 700 operators on Monday, Mr. R. Denny of the Ministry...

TO argue that road transport operators were not paying enough towards road upkeep was unacceptable, Mr. Peter Walker, Tory...

N IMPORTANT initiative by the Greater London Council offers some hope to the many road hauliers operating from inadequate...

WAYS AND MEANS of promoting a closer relationship between the Police and hauliers will be discussed at a series of meetings on...

THE RHA has appointed Mr. Richard Murphy as campaign manager to organize the industry's protest against many provisions of the...

AS FORECAST in COMMERCIAL MOTOR last week, freight rates have already been affected by devaluation. Mann and Son (London) Ltd....

THE Freight White Paper could most accurately be described as a protection racket, the RHA's public relations officer, Mr....

NW haulage plans By Ashley Taylor NORTH WESTERN hauliers may soon be in a position to complete agreements with British...

A FIVE-POINT promise to stop the Government's "ruin of road haulage" immediately the Conservatives are returned to power was...

A WARNING that the Government's new White Paper on Road Transport could mean "nationalization by the back door" was given by...

MRS. BARBARA CASTLE intends to introduce "shortly" the necessary legislation to allow an extension of the Transport Holding...

A SUGGESTION that the Chancellor of the Exchequer should take measures to offset the increase in transport costs resulting from...

T WO prototype buses designed for eventual use on the Runcorn New Town rapid transit system (described in COMMERCIAL MOTOR,...

BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT CONSERVATIVE MPs believe that the Transport Holding Company's 35m takeover of BET's bus company...

TMPROVEMENTS have been intro duced on all Daimler Fleetline chassis produced since September, and the first complete bus to...

SCREENS By Ashley Taylor ELECTRICALLY heated screens for buses and coaches may well prove a major feature at the 1968...

REDUCTIONS in services operated by Manchester Corporation Transport are called for in a transport committee report being...

RICHARD MURPHY, 42, has been appointed Road Haulage Association campaign manager to organize the industry's protest against...

A N A-LICENCE application was adjourned in Manchester on Monday so that the applicant, B.P. Molyneux of Manchester, could...

ON THE FIRST DAY of a two-day public sitting in Manchester last week, Mr. J. P. Beaumont, a director of Pleasureways (1955)...

ON "convincing supporting evidence", the Metropolitan LA, Mr. D. I. R. Muir, granted a two-tipper B licence in London last week...

FOUR vehicles on B licence have been granted to Jodrell Transport Co. Ltd. of Knutsford to carry for Cerebos of Middlewich. The...

T HE PHASED MOVE from London to Kent of the business of Hovell Son and Co. Ltd., manufacturers of confectioners decorations and...

AS A RESULT of the economic climate, next year ought to be a bumper one for English tour operators. This was stated during the...

THE special requirements of Essex nurserymen for solid fuel during the winter led the Metropolitan LA on Tuesday to make a...

By R. D. Cater T WO of the potential hazards affecting vehicles delivering to petrol stations and similar installations have...

THE Velvet-Ride tandem-axle suspension unit made by White Motor Corporation, of Cleveland, Ohio, USA, is to be manufactured at...

THE DEVELOPMENT of smoke-depressant additives is described as the most significant development in fuel technology over the past...

A COMMON gross weight limit of 34tons for all types of trailers which rely on overrun brakes will apply from January 1 1968....

By mounting the gritter on to bare understructures on the Dinosaur container, fitted with legs, the Dinosaur driver can pick up...

THE managing director of ERF Ltd., Sandbach, Mr. Peter Foden, has asked the local MP, Mr. Sydney Scholefleld Allen (Labour) to...

AN ARRANGEMENT has been made between Powell Duffryn Engineering Co. Ltd., and Atkinsons of Clitheroe Ltd., for the Atkinsons 7...

TNTERESTING variations on the three'. axle theme are represented by the accompanying pictures. At the top is the SeddonUnipo...

A NOVEL unit-load system offering many of the benefits of ISO operation to vessels and ports not specially equipped to handle...

THE COMPLETE RANGE of Motivair compressors and pneumatic equipment marketed by Teddington Engineering Co. Ltd., is described in...

THE STYAN CUB is the name given to a fire extinguisher produced by Styan Laboratories which is charged with a liquid instead of...

ASHWORTH ROSS vehicle weighbridges are described in a recently published brochure. The 16-page booklet gives an account of...

NOW AVAILABLE in the UK, a range of American-made periphery tapes—known as Pi-Tapes—give a fast, accurate method of measuring...

BECAUSE OF their compact construction, installation of a range of gearbox-mounted air-control units for the Tecalernit...

OSRAM-GEC has introduced a 12V 55W tungsten-halogen spot/fog lamp bulb with a BPF cap. Tungsten-halogen bulbs (formerly called...

A POWER-OPERATED TOOL which, it is claimed, makes short work of breaking the beads of the largest sizes of truck tyres is now...

IN JULY last year, a conference on vehicle crash and injury prevention was held in London. It was sponsored by the Society of...

MOTORWAY and other recent major road changes in the 1968 edition of the Ordnance Survey two-sheet route planning map are up to...

IN VERY COLD conditions fire brigades are often faced with the problem of water freezing in the primer of vehicle-mounted fire...

D ESPITE today's improved roads and better vehicles alike, we still get as many cases of dislodged loads of glass bottles. etc....

IN THIS SPECIAL Bulk Transport Number it is appropriate to remind readers of the booklet published earlier this year by the...

organization "FrIHE BEST-DESIGNED and best-main ". tained fleet of its kind in Europe." Before I had even seen the Albion...

Review of noise problems included in first CAV press call. Turbocharging, combating corrosion in alternators and cold starting...

T WENTY-FIVE months slipped by before the Home Office amended the Conveyance of Petroleum Spirit (By Road) Regulations, to...

for customers By P. A. C. Brockington, AM1MechE S EVENTY PER CENT of the cement produced at the seven works of the Rugby...

Norwich operator uses suck-in blow-out system for collection/delivery service from high output sawmills to high consumption...

In the third of this series of four articles, in which D. N. DEAN takes a critical look at the bus and coach operating...

Drivers' baggage? I WAS INTERESTED to read an account of Alan Havard's suggested national distribution network. May I add...

View BY THE HAWK Unkindest cut . . . AT LEAST one prominent road transport trade union chief, I gather, has told Mr. Ray...

I F THE founding fathers of the licensing system awoke today like Rip Van Winkle from a sleep of 30 years they would rub their...

advised that increasing the spark-plug gap would improve fuel consumption. What is your view? A Increasing the spark-plug gap...

me from taking a test for a heavy goods vehicle driver's licence when hg. v. licences come in? A Because the regulations...

A Quantity licensing is the method used at the moment to ensure that there are not too many vehicles chasing too little work...

A You should take a line drop from the outside centre of each axle or stub axle marking the ground where the plumb bob forms....

30cwt unladen. If the Minister's proposals for goods vehicle licences become law my vehicles will no longer require to have a...

book dealing with vehicle body building and design. Do you know of any such work? A The Vehicle Builders and Repairers'...

A We suggest you write to the Charnwood Publishing Co., Coalville, Leicester. It specializes in printing a variety of transport...

panels for the old-type Leyland. Albion and Dodge cab. Can you give me its full name and address? A The fitm you need is...

Robert Wynn and Sons Ltd., of Newport, for hauling its aircushion transporter? A This company employs a Pacific tractive unit...

unit and semi-trailer) can be towed after breaking down providing it is unladen. Can you confirm that: (a) laden attics cannot...

Operation of road vehicles with specialized bulk bodies highlights the distinction between distribution and transport costs M...

THERE IS a great deal to be said for private study and correspondence courses in preparing for a professional transport...