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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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