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20th August 1965
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Getting Nowhere

T HE Trades Union Congress general council's report on transport policy (summarized on page ,22) hides, behind a lot of...

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Co-ordinate Transport b3 !gration, says TUC

GENERAL COUNCIL'S POLICY INCLUDES 11 TO A BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION THE only way in which the public interest can be...

Testing on own premises could be costly

A LTHOUGH the Minister of Transport has announced that annual testing of heavy vehicles is to be undertaken at special...

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IR Success for RHA, TRTA in Clearance Depot Plans

F. acceptance of TIR as adequate security for goods in transit in the UK between ort of entry and inland clearance depots,...

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'Co-ordinate Transport

contd. from p. 23 long as spare capacity exists. Conversely, it could happen that congestion became an important consideration...

' Negative' says 111111

COMMENTING on the TUC report, a • -' spokesman for the Road Haulage Association said it represented a negative return to the...

'RESTRICTIVE POLICY'

THE kind of restrictive policy advocated I by the TUC would have precisely the reverse effect to that which was claimed, the...

Line Fixed for More of M62 Motorway

T HE Minister of Transport has made a scheme fixing the route of a further 19 miles of the Lancashire-Yorkshire motorway (M62)...

New Atlas Express Depot in Yorks

r - t A NEW Atlas Express depot, built to replace the company's existing premises in Bradford and Wakefield, was opened in...

TWELVE-POINT GUIDE FOR LORRY PARKS

N EARLY 2,000 local authorities all over Britain will have received yesterday a 12-point guide which it is hoped will help them...

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A Reliance based Pantechnicon

ZOVED manceuvrability, a lowmated cab, a reasonably low floor, bulk-load capacity and ease of servicing were favourable...

. and an exhibition unit, too

A LSO using an underfloor-engined passenger chassis is this new mobile exhibition r unit introduced by the Inveresk Paper...

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PNEUMAJEGTORS FOR NOTTINGHAM OPERATOR

THIS AEC-York outfit with Bonallack Pneumajector low-pressure powder tank has just been completed for Bulk Powders (Midlands)...

Close-coupled Tollbridge Trailers for Acid Loads

C LOSE-COUPLED four-wheeled running gear using independent torsional suspension units has been chosen by Tollbridge Trailers...

NEW BOXVAN FOR SUCHARD

nNE of many vehicles being built by Alfred Walker Coachbuilders (1934) Ltd., Greycaines Trading Estate. Watford, on the new...

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Ise Impression

publication of an application for low-loader on B licence by John (Plant) Ltd., of Alveston. Strat,?on-Avon, gave a false...

RULINGS BY TRANSPORT TRIBUNAL

T HE Transport Tribunal this week gavewritten decisions on appeals by G. Hayton and by Hoddam Transport Ltd.; and its reasons...

Grant for Bingo Mini-bus

application by Mr, A. E. Wilson, of Laithes, Yorks, to run an express miniom Staithes to Loftus for bingo evenfter a lapse of...

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Ferry Service Application With a Difference

S OMETHING in the nature of an anticlimax followed the partial hearing at Leeds last week, before the Yorkshire deputy...

FEDERATED BID REDUCED-OBJECTORS WITHDRAW

A T the start of the hearing of an application at Birmingham last week by Federated Road Transport Services Ltd. to add six...

Consolidation Grant for 28

QEEKING to consolidate 12 A-licensed and 18 B-licensed tankers of 2804 tons capacity into an A licence for 30 vehicles of the...

ANOTHER FOR HEAPS FAMILY OBJECTION

A 'application for a variation of B licence to add one vehicle was granted to Heaps Bros. (V. J. and V. S. (Bolton)) by the...

WEST RIDING FARES UP THIS MONTH - Q . ARES increases of up to 4d. on many

services operated throughout the West Riding by the West Riding Automobile Co. Ltd. will come into effect later this month....

Application Reduced —and Granted A N application to add six vehicles on

B licence by John Scott and Sons of Newcastle upon Tyne was amended to four vehicles when it was heard on Friday at Newcastle...

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IN BRIEF .nother Raker Exhibition: A display of rw and

used coaches is to he held at the arnham Trading Estate premises of E. J. aker and Co. (Dorking) Ltd. front clober IR to 22...

Rail-replacement Reliance for Red Rover

N ow 'operating on the rail-replacement service between Aylesbury and Steeple Claydon on the Great Central Line is this 53-seat...

Transport Studies at Leeds University

A CENTRE of transport studies is to be set up at Leeds University. The initiative in this move has been taken by Mr. Thomas...

Bus Route Plan f or Rochdale Canal

A . PRELIMINARY inspection has indiLa cated that there are no techrtical drawbacks to a scheme for a two-way tracked. bus route...

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DATA PROCESSING FOR RIBBLE

A DATA processing installation has recently been installed by Ribble Motor Services Ltd. At the moment only used for the audit...

Men in the News

Mr. James C. Chester has been promoted to the new post of technical manager in the drawing office at the Preston factory of...

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Butterfield Activities

S well as the link with York Trailer Co. for the marketing of complete tanker 1M-trailers. announced earlier this year. '. P....

VAM Production Begins

A FUNCTION took place at the Luton factory of Vauxhall Motors Ltd. last week to mark the star: of production of the new VAM...

TWIN - STEER FODEN UNITS FOR HEMPHILL F HE first twin-steer Foden tractive

unit to be put into service by James lemphill Lid.. of Glasgow. is seen here ouplcd to a Butterfield 5,250-gal. tank tounted on...

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Crane Fruehauf Profits

T HE total trading profit of Crane Fruehauf Trailers Ltd. in the year ended March 31 was 021.045, compared with £121,258 in the...

FODENS AT THE SCOTTISH SHOW

THREE Foden models wilt be exhibited at the Scottish Show at Kelvin Hall in November. One will be a Gardner-cngined...

Birch Bros.

M ARSHALL bodies are fitted to a fleet of four Leyland Leopards now being introduced by Birch Bros. Ltd. on the 203 service...

A Hundred Guy-based Ritemixers

LIALL HAM CONCRETE LTD. have I I recently taken delivery of their 100th Guy Warrior to be fitted with a Ritemixer 5-6 cu. yd....

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NEWS IN BRIEF CRUSHLOAD ON SHOW

Vehicles for Islington: The London :nigh of Islington has recommended the have of five 'Dennis Paxit Major WA inuous-loadine...

ROAD AND WORKSHOP by HANDYMAN

An Unusual Driving Hazard TRANGE as it may seem, probably the safest place nit the roads today is the thick of a city traffic...

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NEW EQUIPMENT

and Publications Gilding the Lily ? U NTIL recently, suggestions that seat covers would have any place in the cab of a heavy...

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New Semi-trailers from North-east

i ITHIN the past six months a new range of semi-trailers has been seen in increasing numbers on British roads. These are being...

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BOOK REVIEWS

The Law of Carriage by Inland Transport THE fourth edition of "The Law of Carriage by Inland Transport ", by Otto Kahn-Freund,...

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.S a result of . a comprehensive survey recently

: completed by Coras lompair EireannEire' mitionalifed tranSport system-Dubliners may soon 1 their buses acting strangely,...

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Road Test of C ler Maxiload

0 F the new models at the last Commercial Motor Show, one of the more interesting was the Commer Maxiload, as its introduction...

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FIGURES CAN MISLEAD

F AR be it from me to complain of a surfeit of road transport statistics, having so often taken the contrary point of view....

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BIRD'S EYE VIEW

Established Firm Finding what he took to be a " coachbutichng firm the other day, my colleague. Moses, soon found that he had...

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Big Engines for Motorway Work

O PERATION of high-speed coaches on motorways is still a novelty in Japan, where the only road of that class is less than two...

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dustrial Training

As Nearer EXISTING BOARD'S REPORTS GIVE CLUES By S. Buckley Assoc I nst T AS TO PROJECTED ROAD TRANSPORT BOARDS tonths ago "...

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I YOUR OPINION

Unhappy Situation HYSLOP'S timely exposition, in The Commercial fotor August 6, of the failing commercial judgment EC is...

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IN YOUR OPINION

continued from page 73 available to any of your readers who may be interested. In closin g . let us not for g et that an...

Wells Tour to Continent a Correction

WE refer to your report in the July 30 issue in which it " was stated that an application was g ranted by the Eastern Traffic...

Replacement Starters

A S an avid reader of The Commercial Motor I was somewhat amused at the article re g ardin g CA45C starters in your issue of...

THE COMMON ROOM

The Use and Abuse of Statistics in Road Transport— 1 FIGURES and statistics are produced almost daily front innumerable...