O NE of the brighter spots in the passenger world has been the V./continuing upswing in coach travel, which includes express...

FROM A SPECIAL -CORRESPONDENT • THE Ministry of Transport has a ready-made plan for testing goods vehicles I over 30 cwt....

.CA A T a Section 11 meeting of the Inter national Road - Transport Union in Geneva this week Mr. D. 0. Good, R.H.A. national...

I — I A BRITISH RAILWAYS driver who left his lorry in a " no waiting" area in Sheffield while he inquired of three regular...

A N account of the special difficulties experienced at ports and.doeks, and' particularly in the major ports, with a summary of...

C LAI kl ED to he the first of its kind in this country. and covered by Murtitt patent, a three-compartment flour tanker has...

A PPROVAL has been given by the Minister of Transport to a £6m. programme A'1‘ aimed at improving winter maintenance of trunk...

IT has been decided by the Traders Road . 1 Transport Association to hold its next conference in the spring of 1965. No venue...

T WO Cardiff men, found guilty of conspiring to sell B licences to desperate hauliers, were sentenced to imprisonment at the...

A P L1CATIONS by several Teesside hauliers for additional facilities, including long-length trailers, to enable them to...

Crosville Gets Express T H E decision of the North Western Traffic Commissioners on the application made by Crosville Motor...

W HEN the Transport Tribunal ruled auainst an application by two successful respondents for costs against a Rugby furniture...

T HE Transport Tribunal, in London on Wednesday, dismissed an appeal by R. Garner Ltd. of Farnworth, Lancashire, against a...

S IZEABLE haulage bids are listed in two areas this week - Scottish (South) and Eastern. In the first, Duncan Barbour and Son...

APPLICATIONS (October 26, 1963 , John F. MacKenzie, Lochinver, new B lie.. 1 T. (3t1). Road mats and plant machinery, within 20...

A FTER a sitting of the Northern Licensing Authority at Darlington last week, the application by Reliance Ltd. of Stockton. for...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT THREE-POINT claims for higher pay I and better conditions are to be submitted on behalf of...

result of the purchase of R. Dickson (Junior) Ltd., of Dundee, by Wallace Arnold ,Tours Ltd. (see last week), Wallace Arnold...

A NEW depot opened by the Western Welsh Omnibus Co. Cl Ltd. in the new town of Cwmbran, Monmouthshire, is an important addition...

deputy chairman of the Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd. and will control all the companies in the group at home and overseas....

DOSSIBLY the first double-decker of conven tional half-cab design to employ a peaked roof fore and aft is a new Guy Arab Mark V...

W INTER is officially here, and the nights are already drawing in If this winter is anything like as bad as the last one,...

r i PERATORS wilI be able to lease Dyson semi-trailers without having the responsibility for maintaining them under a new...

From John F. Moon, Turin, Tuesday. TOMORROW, Signor Segni, the Italian 1 president, is due to declare the 45th Italian Motor...

NEW VEHICLES FOR MIDDLESBROUGH: Middlesbrough Corporation has placed a repeat order for 10 Daimler Fleetline chassis at a cost...

pRODUCTION of goods vehicles and p.s.v. in September this year was at about the same level as for September, 1962, but exports...

Handyman Rear axle tube damage after half-shaft change A FORM OF delayed action trouble can be experienced, following an axle...

and Publications L'ASTER delivery of powders is possible with the new Wellworthy-Ricardo Compressor WS9 Mark II. This is a...

Norman I-I. Tilsley reports on news and views gleaned from last week's R.H.A Conference A S Derek Good, the R.H.A.'s popular...

Noise Levels IN your issue dated October 18 Mr. John Connell, refer' ring to noise from vehicles, states "In other countries...

Oki By A. J. I A.M.I.MECH.E. A DVERTISEMENTS for the Renault 4L insist that it is a remarkable car. After testing the 6-cwt....

THIS is not the only country with a Lorry Driver of the Year Competition—they have one in America too. I hear that more than...

On Monday, 1)onald Stokes—managing director of Leyland Motors Ltd. and sales director of the Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd.—was...

If these trips were typical, standards need improving By H. BRIAN COTTEE I N the face of steadily dwindling traffic and savage...

MOSE: (IN reading what has gone before, my reaction as a roadkJ passenger-transport specialist should, perhaps, be to take up...

with ' A T the recent conferences of the Traders Road Transport Association and the Road Haulage Association hardly a word was...

S INCE the publication in March this year of the report on the reshaping of British Railways, the resulting repercussions have...

S. Priest (Wordsley) Ltd. Cap. £4,000. Objects: To carry on the business of transport and haulage contractors, etc. Dirs.: S....