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20th December 1974
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No agreement on weight!

-but EEC Ministers fix high er quotas from our Brussels CO DESPITE a complete failure to make any progress on a common...

BRS to start truck rental

THE British Road Services group is expected to announce within a few days that it is entering the truck rental market....

Government ti support rail transport

INDUSTRY is to be en. couraged to send good! by rail instead of mac under a new scheme tt start next year. This wa: revealed in...

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Law's £50 target is surprise to FTA

ALAN LAW, Birmingham district official of the Transport and General Workers' Union, has set a target of £50 as the basic wage...

Face the future now, warning

DURING the last 18 months haulage costs have risen on average by 40 per cent, according to Mr Jack Male, a vice-chairman of R H...

Inter-union dispute hits Crosville

BUS SERVICES operated by Crosville Motor Services in the Wirral, in Cheshire, were at a standstill earlier this week as the...

Happy Christmas

THE Editor and staff of Commercial Motor wish all their readers a very merry Christmas, and a prosperous New Year.

Glasgow PTE area under review

THE present designated area of the Greater Glasgow Passenger Transport Authority will be reviewed with Strathclyde Regional...

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'Encourage rail not road'call

A NEW SYSTEM of Government support for the railways, designed to encourage industry to send by rail goods which would otherwise...

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Taking pains to foil the thieves

y Michael Matthews HE BUILD-UP to Christas usually sees an increase I lorry thefts, and is a time F year when operators and...

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Norfolk man wins CM prize

THE CM prize for success in the Royal Society of Arts Examinations has been won this year by Malcolm 0. Dodd, assistant...

Security law possible

THE Transport Minister is examining the possibility of introducing more specific requirements for the security of lorry loads....

Lorry routes plan

ROUTES for heavy lorries defined by the GLC and South East counties under the Heavy Commercial Vehicles Act 1973 may determine...

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A guide to European speed limits

A COMPREHENSIVE guide to speed limits throughout Europe was published last week by the Economic Commission for Europe. It...

£80,000 in six months

IN the first six months of operation, Finfreight 1.td, a subsidiary of Transcontinental Freight Ltd, Heywood, Lanes, realised a...

Dutch link up

A FULL CO-OPERATION agreement has been reached between Cave Wood (Transport) Ltd, (a subsidiary of the Price and Pierce Group...

Astran's new terminal

A NEW terminal has been opened at Addington, Kent, by Astran International 1.td, to cope with a large amount of additional...

Record traffic figures for Dover

FIGURES just released by Dover Harbour Board show that in the first ten months of this year 208,733 lorries passed through the...

Swedish Lloyd double up

SWEDISH LLOYD are to double the size of their rollon/roll - off terminal at the Pert Of London Authority's Tilbury Docks. The...

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Sheffield United Tours seeks to extend its area

Greater demand for tours expected in 1975 SHEFFIELD United Tours Ltd had 15,632 seats unsold out of 21,000 on offer for...

National subsidies out

A CALL for a national subsidy system for bus services, in place of the present subsidy for local authorities, was turned down...

Free bus extended

THE free Liverpool city centre bus service, which is now carrying 18,000 passengers per week should be continued next year says...

Computers for NBC

TWO NEW FORMS of computer have been installed by subsidiaries of the National Bus Company. Both are MDS 2400 key-to-disc...

Cutback delayed

A DECISION by Grimsby and Cleethorpes Transport Joint Committee to cut bus services in Grimsby and Cleethorpes from December 1,...

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Robert Lawrence, chairman of British Rail Engineering and the British

Rail Propery Board and a full-time member of the British Railways Board, has been re-appointed as a part-time member of the...

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GV9 for vehicle with 1300 worth of repairs

AFTER paying over £500 for repairs to a truck which had attracted an immediate GV9, the proprietor of a Manchester construction...

Revocation changed to suspension

A GOOLE haulier, Mr. J. Patterson, whose licence had been revoked after twice failing to appear at disciplinary inquiries and...

'Emergency brake' plea not accepted

A DEFENCE suggestion that a lorry driver might have only feared, in an emergency, that his brakes were not working was put...

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Tribunal rejects appeal on two grounds

NOT ONE but two reasons are cited by the Transport Tribunal in a written decision issued last week for rejecting an appeal by...

1LMC speedier

ports • BRITISH LEYLAND recently repeated its assurances when RHA technical committee members met the company that it took...

Sunters part in big move

IN a unique transport operation under the overall control of Big Lift BV, of Dordrecht, a Dutch operator specializing in the...

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Blow and suck from Whole for Water Authorities

THE first of a new type of combined vacuum and pressure pump tanker designed for the needs of the regional water authorities...

TRRL compares

battery performance THE improved lead acid battery seems assured of a market for vehicle propulsion according to a two part...

Telma sorts out retarder problem

TELMA Retarder Ltd has experienced a problem in the mounting of its Focal type retarder which is fitted directly to the axle of...

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Driving the 1931 Foden oil-engined 6-tonner

Il-IE RESPONSIBILITY for designing truck of the Seventies would probably lave sent a fearful shudder down the nainframes of...

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Putting Christmas spirit in the shops

Despite the additional constraints of licensing hours, the Merrydown Wine Co Ltd is distributing a large annual production in...

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Kidstuff

If you've any teenagers around over the holidays, try pitting their wits in the challenge posed to mechanical engineering...

Taxi!

One of my colleagues who drives to work each morning past the new Covent Garden market in Vauxhall, London, tells me that there...

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The law and vintage vehicles

by Les Oldridge TEng (CEI), MIMI, AM1RTE COMMERCIAL MOTOR readers who are restoring veteran or vintage commercial vehicles...

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You bend 'em %Iwo mends 'em

I Gordon Murray HE Yorkshire Engineering and lidding Co Ltd has specialized in uilding bulk tanks for transporting oil,...

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Off-white Christmas

"People who write for the Christmas cracker market seem to have lost their sense of humour," said Maggie's brother Cromwell....

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Q I am an Austrian inter national freight transport operator

and for some time now have been sending unaccompanied semitrailers under TIR across the English Channel to Dover. Most of these...

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The new law on labour relations

7: Industrial action by John Darker "INDUSTRIAL ACTION" is a common expression to describe a strike, go slow, or lock-out...

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In praise of Holland

May I be allowed to take issue with one or two points of detail regarding buses and trams of the Netherlands mentioned in your...

Tachograph savings

The figures given in your news item on the savings claimed by the tachograph makers are so incredible that at first I thought...

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High pressure let

A hot water high-pressurejet cleaner, the 113, has been added to the range from Psimat. Powered by a 2hp electric motor the H3...

Safety gets an electric lift

INCREASED safety and greater efficiency are claimed for the Yale battery-electric hand pallet truck from Eaton. It has a lift...

Combined compression regulator tester

An electronic tester which can also be used for checking the condition of various electrical components has been announced by...

Clean Sweeis

The Freshtex oil-gulper paper wiper from BFF is a laminate of four plies • of highly absorbant crepe tissue strengthened with...

Lift to wash

An underbody wash lift that will tilt a vehicle high enough from the floor for easy cleaning has been produced by Laycock....

Pressure wash

Mounted on a two-wheeled aluminium frame, the Sedco 2.E 1000 high-pressure cleaner operates at a maximum pressure of...