T HE Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Wilson, could not have been more emphatic when he told a packed House of Commons on Monday that...

BY JOHN DARKER IF THE Transport Bill is enacted in its published form the National Freight Corporation will have vast powers...

OVER 300 RHA members who marched on Parliament to lobby MPs on Tuesday fell foul of the police when Mr. R. A. Murphy, the...

A FIVE-MAN action committee representing some 850 drivers has been formed in North Staffordshire to fight some of the proposals...

IN AN ideal world the publication of Mrs. Castle's voluminous Transport Bill would have coincided with a period of harmonious...

WALLENIUS LINES' service between Southampton and Rouen is to be withdrawn from December 30. This temporary measure has been...

photograph of the dumper on page 38, COMMERCIAL MOTOR Dec. 15, is of a Liner Rough Rider machine fitted with a Langdale...

AXLES and suspensions from new vehicles which have been converted into six-wheelers by the Primrose Third Axle Co. Ltd. are now...

SPEAKING at the annual dinner of the Newcastle-on-Tyne Transport Managers' Club, Mr. Arthur Miller, national chairman of the...

THE RHA must not lose sight of its major target during the campaign against the Transport Bill, Warned the national chairman,...

AN INDUSTRIAL TRIBUNAL in Carlisle last week awarded £154 13s redundancy pay to a West Cumberland lorry driver against Seymour...

WILLIAM C. TOLL, 47, has been appointed divisional director, BMC light commercial vehicles division, at Adderley Park,...

Motor Corporation Ltd. as finance director, early in the new year. He will be directly responsible to Sir Donald Stokes, the...

R. H. (Dick) [moll, secretary of the RHA International Group has resigned to take up the post of secretary designate with the...

SCOTTISH deputy LA, Mr. L. A. Wells, suspended for three months from Christmas Day an A licence held by the Strathtay Haulage...

WHEN S. A. Bebb Ltd., of Llantwit, Glamorgan, applied to the South Wales Traffic Commissioners for renewal of their excursions...

Attendance continues to fall at licensing's road/rail negotiating committee meetings. Over an eight-week period, up to last...

AN OPERATOR told the Metropolitan deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. W. G. Levitt, on Monday, that the low rates he charged for...

THIS week, the Scottish deputy LA, Mr. Wells took action under section 178 of the Act against James Fleming (Anstruther) Ltd.,...

I N EVIDENCE before the South Eastern LA last week, hauliers were described as "stop-gaps" in connection with the Freightliner...

TIPPER OPERATORS in Cheshire and Lancashire have been granted a 10 per cent rates increase by ICI Ltd., as from January I,...

METROPOLITAN deputy Licensing Authority Mr. W. M. Levitt has, in a written decision, refused to grant licences to six owner...

INTERESTING POINTS RAISED IN UNUSUAL APPLICATION Counsel: May it please you, Sir, I appear in this application for my client,...

first of the PTAs? By Derek Moses A GREEMENT has been reached between Mrs. Barbara Castle and Mr. Desmond Plummer, leader of...

HOW local authority bus undertakings will be transferred to Passenger Transport Authorities was explained last week by Mr....

A RECOMMENDATION has been made by Mr. W. C. Wilson, manager of the new Tees side Borough Transport undertaking to come into...

eight per cent, giving the busmen an extra £1 a week and bringing the top basic rate up to £13 17s 9d. There is to be a...

A RESOLUTION whereby the Minister of Transport is to be told that Halifax Passenger Transport would be "interested in acquiring...

W. Alexander and Sons (Northern) Ltd. are having to get off the buses and walk across several railway bridges, following the...

REDUCTIONS in drivers' hours would not curtail driver fatigue or improve staff recruitment and would greatly increase running...

EWER Pick-A-Back fork trucks L which are designed for carrying on vehicles are to be introduced into this country from Germany...

A SPECIAL eight-wheeler has been produced by Atkinson Vehicles Ltd., Preston, Lancs, for operation at 60 tons gross with a...

TWO NEW MODELS—the SK.24/30 and PSK.24/30—have been added to the York range of container-carrying semi-trailers. They are...

IF it were not for so many misleading and erroneous statements in the text, the seventh edition of Diesel Vehicles by P. N....

FURTHER information regarding the White Velvet Ride rubber suspension system to be manufactured in this country by the Holset...

A GAS TURBINE combustion system that produces exhaust gases with a lower hydrocarbon content than is found in most urban...

I DREW ATTENTION recently to the I fact that it is easy for brackets, steering box mountings, and chassis members etc. to...

THE 1967 edition of The Motor Industry of Great Britain, published by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders Ltd., is...

FORECASTS of developments in commercial vehicles, contained in a new book entitled Commercial Vehicles—Engineering and...

LATEST MICHELIN XB tyre now available for onor off-the-road use is the E.20 Type XB. It has a plated axle load rating of 6.5...

A MODERN-STYLED intercom system now available from Associated Telephones can connect up to 16 people or departments. The AT7200...

LOW-COST vehicle security is offered by the new Scout Car alarm. Installation is simple. The alarm measures 6in. by 2.25in. by...

THREE new lines have been added by Stenor to its range of Motorcare Chemicals. These are Instant Start, Penetrating Oil and...

TWO ADDITIONAL items of tyre-repair equipment are now offered by Pang Chemical Vulcanizers. These are the Lester Inside-Outside...

THE SPIRIT of Christmas caught up with the London Transport Managers Club last week. At the Hanover Grand, 274 members and...

"THIS particular decision has shown an arrogance and contemptuous indifference to the functions and purpose of a great national...

BET have got together with British Transport Advertising Ltd. to produce BETTA Busplans, which they describe as "a new concept...

I'M TOLD that John Sexton, who lives in Bendish, Hertfordshire, stuck behind a Hands trailer during an Al traffic jam, came to...

A DEMAND that turnstiles should be removed from public lavatories at railway, coach and bus stations was made in the Lords last...

THE p.s.v. operators have every right to be outraged at the lack of consultation they were afforded before the Transport Bill...

ON SEPTEMBER 12 Midland Red applied for variations on its daily Shrewsbury–Edgmond service to allow the extension of certain...

SUCCESS in cutting down vehicle accident rate has been achieved by an old established North London haulage company, A. Pannell...

FACED with the new wage rates which come into effect on April 1, haulier& in the USA are pressing for an increase in freight...

"I FEEL I must tell you about a wonderful old vehicle my father has just retired along with himself," writes Mrs. P.M. Newton,...

TO BE APPOINTED on December 1 and address his own "parish" within a fortnight is a record to the credit of Ernest Reffold, the...

"RAILWAYS must attract more bulk traffic since the present economic development of the country provides this bulk traffic for...

DR. RAO, Minister for Transport and Shipping, in India, says that early steps must be taken to review the system of control and...

E MARK II HAFLINGER, like the earlier version roadtested in 1961, produced some quite startling results. In negotiating rough...

BY TED MURPHY I NCREASED PRODUCTIVITY, bigger returns on capital investments,ments, greater utilization: these are the cries...

—commonsense the basis T AST MONTH 36 loaded heavy goods J—t vehicles were stolen in London. Areas worst hit were the East...

AF TER Mrs. Barbara Castle had had such difficulty in finding a Principal Boy it was feared that the Christmas show in St....

Will the turbocharged in-line six compete successfully with the V-8 diesel? With improvements in turbochargers the in-line...

By DEREK MOSES A small independent coach operator in central Scotland believes that the future of small concerns is bleak,...

which has a carrying capacity of 5 tons and an unladen weight of 3 tons? A The new C and U Regulations will apply to your 1951...

A - Double bottoms is the expression used in the USA to denote the haulage of two trailers coupled in tandem. These could be...

mounted crane. Could you give the name and address of the company which now produces Neal cranes or spares? My letter to the...

road vehicles. We understand that a container can be insulated by pumping a plastics foam material into the cavity between the...

A Yes. The Library of the Transportation Centre, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA, issues a free bibliography...

procedure shortly to be introduced at London Airport. Is this likely to result in the speeding of Customs clearance at docks or...

I noticed how popular the rigid eightwheeler hauling an eight-wheeled trailer had become and how small were the tanker bodies...

The education secretary of the RHA forecasts a long and difficult road to be travelled before the objectives of road transport...

NOW THAT the Industry Training Board has sent out its levy demand notices, there has been some hard thinking about training and...