T RANSPORT operators everywhere will echo the .I. plea by the TRTA president (page 28) to the Minister of Transport to...

66 C O-ORDINATE all Government action which affects road transport costs and intercede with your colleagues at the Treasury,...

of Britain's quan tity producers of commercial vehicles is about to move up into the heavier weight classes with goods...

r a characteristically forthright speech, Mr. Frank Cousins last week castigated transport employers for consistently refusing...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT A VERAGE weekly earnings of transport and communications workers have gone up 218.6 per...

TRANSPORT EFFICIENCY IS THE THEME THIS YEAR A DATE for your dairy: September 21. This is the day on which four distinguished...

ARTHUR W. ELLIS (Transport) .M.Ltd., of New Bridge Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, was ordered in the High Court last week to pay...

O N more than 1,400 occasions, lorries which had just left Grangemouth Docks after loading up with bauxite were found to be...

HALF the delivery work previously undertaken for the Melds confectionery organization in Bedford and associated companies by...

BY JOHN DARKER rill; 22nd annual report of the Road Haulage Association published this week presents an encouraging picture...

REGENT OIL CO. LTD.—which had 12 of its tankers suspended for four months from March 1 as a penalty for collecting 123 GV9s...

By S. BUCKLEY A THOUGH it was claimed that training never ceases, because of limitations in the natural desire to learn and...

yoRK SHIRE short-distance haulage firm R. Hanson and Son found its expansion restricted in 1966, reports Mr. Geoffrey Eley,...

BRMSI-I MOTOR HOLDINGS last week announced a half year loss of £7,520,000 before tax, incurred entirely in the BMC side of the...

APPLEBY (Westmorland) magistrates decided last week that an unmarked lay-by on the A66 Penrith to Appleby road was part of the...

D ETAILS of the National Freight Organization will be given in a White Paper Mrs. Castle plans to issue later this year. She...

rr Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill, vi,ich tightens up the control over operators with defective lorries, was approved by the...

From our Political Correspondent 'THERE will be no GLC takeover of I. London's buses, and there will be no rush to appoint a...

FROM OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT LIBERAL policy-makers went overboard for road tolls at a special conference, "Guidelines for...

T HE rehearing of strongly contested applications by Wallace Arnold Tours Ltd., of Leeds, for continuations and modifications...

"A GRANT of one dump truck is of little use", said Mr. J. B. T. Louden this week to the Transport Tribunal when he appealed...

B RITISH Railways, Scottish Region, had been operating vehicles on a licence although an appeal against the grant of that...

A N application for an A licence which was refused and caused another A licence to be suspended for six months was the subject...

MR. C. J. MacDONALD, Metropolitan deputy LA, last week suspended one vehicle belonging to Southern Laundries (1946) Ltd. for...

THE MINISTER of Transport has upheld an appeal by Hutchison's Coaches Ltd., of Overtown, Lanarkshire, against a decision of the...

THE hearing of the appeal by 18 private road hauliers (COMMERCIAL MOTOR, April 14) against a 12 1.ehiele grant by the North...

By DEREK MOSES NE W entrants into the field of bus body building are indeed rare these days, but one company which has turned...

T HE Stockport-based North Western Road Car Co., which runs a fleet of nearly 600 vehicles in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Lancashire...

THE TRADE anil technical publishing interests of the International Publishing Corporation have been merged into a new division...

T South Wales Traffic Com- n E issioners in Cardiff last week granted applications for 62 and 66 new licences to the Red and...

MID-TYNE Transport Co. Ltd., Hexham, Northumberland has been taken over by Sowerby's Tours, of Gilsland, who are to maintain...

A "COMMUTER SPECIAL" express bus service between Ayr and Glasgow which would reduce the time of the existing bus journey by 20...

surely Mrs. Barbara 1 . - 7 Castle is unveiling her proposals with regard to the future of the road passenger transport...

CIR REGINALD WILSON has resigned from the position of chairman and 1 - 7 director of Bristol Commercial Vehicles Ltd., and Sir...

Report and pictures by Dick Ross L AST Saturday at the invitation of 37th Transport Group US Army, commanded by Col. John E....

THE Ministry of Transport has set aside £500,000 towards cutting down accidents caused by skidding. A major campaign is being...

better the combustion of petrol and diesel engines the lower will be the level of insoluble matter in the lubricating oil; for...

K NOWN as the Palletainer delivery vehicle, a Bedford VAL-based pantechnicon is being operated by Clarkes Boxes Ltd.,...

B Y employing a Perkins 510 V8 diesel engine for the Maxim tractive unit, the makers Dennis Bros. Ltd., Guildford, have been...

A COMBINED condenser and automatic' drain-valve unit introduced by Clayton Dewandre Co. Ltd., Lincoln, filters the air of...

HA VING selected your inspectors according to fleet size, there are one or two further points to consider. These chaps are...

M ANY attempts have been made at positively sealing rotating shafts without oil seepage, and a revolutionary design of oil seal...

DD ED to their ranges of hand-drills, arron Machines Ltd, is a double'n sulated-percussion drill. The "Super Stork" P.C. 14...

M AGNESIUM dockboards offer many advanta g es in lorry loadin g from depot platforms because of their high stren g th/ weight...

vOR immobilizing a trailer when parked S. Norrish Ltd. have introduced a kin g -pin lock. The "Norisk" lock comprises a yoke of...

ICI paints division has developed a new two-pack polyester stopper (P551-1042) for use in refinish paint shops. It is packed in...

M ARKETED as the Wedgo G.65 by W. C. Youn g man Ltd. is a portable steam cleaning unit which produces hi g hpressure steam from...

TENOLITE LTD. has introduced an eightmember range of li q uid alkaline solutions for use by hot immersion, which it claims are...

AN operator's handbook for safe working of fork-lift trucks has been published by Lansin g Bagnall Ltd. It describes fully the...

View BY THE HAWK Joe Cox's Secret N OEL WYNN, national vice-chairman, was on g ood form at the RHA's Western area dinner on...

T HERE is no glib formula for success in road haulage, but there would be general agreement on two vital principles: the...

BBC 's PROGRAMME "Tomorrow's World" and Raymond Baxter presented a one-sided report on the reluctance of the transport industry...

THE LATEST representations which are being made for some effort to introduce simplicity in our Acts and statutory instruments...

THANK YOU for publishing my letter in your issue of March 31. It is noted an error has crept in and where I referred to...

T HE fact that VW have made few major modifications to their delivery vans may be one reason why this vehicle has a high sales...

BY S. BUCKLEY Assoc Inst T E VERY week 25,000 requests from house' wives are received at the 60 call offices of British...

DEVELOPMENTS in vehicle-body refinishing materials over the past few years have been many. A considerable amount of work on...

A N impressively spacious car for a saloon less than 14 ft. long overall, the Morris 1800 tested by COMMERCIAL MOTOR is...

A NYONE who wants luxury in a small package will fi nd the answer in the Triumph 1300. At a basic price including tax of £835...

THE latest Vauxhall Viva incorporates many improvements over the model it replaced in September 1966. With a price structure...

by Tender by Ashley Taylor, Assoc lnst T, AMIRTE C OMPARED with the methods of direct sale, part-exchange and auction, the...

A. F. Beckenham (CM, last week) of the shortcomings of transport education in Britain and the consequent harmful effect on the...

TWO COACH DRIVERS OF THE YEAR T\ 0 Plaxton-bodied Daimler Roadliner e N c r iaches ran away with the honours in the 13th...

W 1TH the appointment of a director of training by the Road Transport Industry Training Board earlier this month following...

Use Regulations that all vehicles registered on or after January 1 1968 must have the parking brake completely separate from...

A Vehicles must not park on the motorway and if they have to stop they must be driven on the grass verge or hard shoulder only...

Increases in road haulage can be expressed in terms either of tonnage or ton-mile, although both figures need to be treated...

A A patented expanding tilt is available r-1 from John Smith and Co. (London) Ltd., Hainault Works, Hainault Road, Chaciwell...

A The Higher the centre of gravity, the greater the transfer of weight from the rear axle TO the front axle when the vehicle...

p.s.v. driving licence. I already hold a British Forces (German) p.s.v. licence and would be glad of information as to how I go...

made to ram-air supercharging. Have you details of such a system? A The speaker was probably referring to the FiamAire...

general trade plates but without a carrier's licence, such as the towing of caravans and trailers? A General trade plates...

A Drivers are already recruited with diffi culty and many hauliers are more concerned when engaging them to check references...

ON LY a month remains before the Institute of Transport examinations and the other professional transport examinations take...