E IFFICIENCY is an eel-slippery word that is hard -Li to pin down. Engineers manage to give it precise quantity for their...

FTHE Government proposes to legislate on doctrinaire grounds against road transport in favour of the railways, regardless of...

T HE Goods Vehicle (Temporary Use in Great Britain) (No. 3) Regulations, 1967, were laid before Parliament this week and come...

A PRE-TAX PROFIT jump of almost 100 per cent over 1966 will be announced to the shareholders of Allisons Freightlines Ltd.,...

• Passenger vehicles—this is the annual p.s.v. number, including illustrated reviews of chassis and touring coach bodywork;...

the practical effects of plating on loads, on vehicle selection, on rates and revenue. ORDER COMMERCIAL MOTOR EVERY WEEK: IT'S...

by C. HYAMS rr HE only exclusively container service between the Isle of Man and the mainland commenced operations on Tuesday...

by IAIN SHERRIFF THE CONTRACT hire fleet operated by Brown and Poison Ltd., of Paisley, will not be reduced despite the fact...

THE MINISTER OF TRANSPORT, is to free certain classes of international road transport from licensing restrictions—if Parliament...

by JOHN DARKER by JOHN DARKER A NEW layout costing Ll+m. at South Victoria Dock, Birkenhead, and offering many time-saving...

AN EXPERIMENTAL vehicle pre-hooking scheme is to be introduced by the Port of London Authority in conjunction with the UK/New...

consortium— by SAM BUCKLEY 0 NE of the UK's first inland Customs clearance centres to be administered by a consortium of...

THERE WAS conflict on availability schedules at the Metropolitan traffic court last week when McGee (Haulage) Ltd. appeared...

A LAST-MINUTE withdrawal of objection by Dean Group Transport Ltd., of Salford, former carriers of Castrol Ltd. traffic in the...

A WEST COUNTRY firm of quarry owners and contractors which is just completing a £10,000 extension of its vehicle maintenance...

MANCHESTER Corporation Transport is to reapply to the Traffic Commissioners to abolish its one-stage 3d minimum fare. It did so...

rr HE managing director of Bullen's Transport Ltd., of Banham, Norfolk, until the company was compulsorily wound up four...

TT would cost Oxford City Council between i15m and I16m to buy out the City of Oxford Motor Services Ltd., said a member of the...

READING Corporation Transport has completed orders for a total of 42 new buses through a contract worth £97,000 with Pennine...

A DEMAND that Edinburgh bus drivers and conductors should sit on the transport committee was made at a meeting of Edinburgh and...

TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY coach chassis worth over £350,000 have been ordered by Coras lompair Eireann from McC aims Motors Ltd.,...

THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS of Dagenham Motors Ltd. has appointed S. G. Forsyth, director, chairman of the board and managing...

WE REGRET to record the death of Lord Lambury of Northfield. Lord Lambury, 71, president of the British Motor Corporation, was...

PROPOSALS for experimenting with Newcastle upon Tyne Corporation Transport are criticized in a report issued by the...

by A. J. P. WILDING, AMIMechE MIRTE A VAN version of the Skoda Octavia Combi estate car is now available in the UK through...

by JOHN CULLEN THE AEC RELIANCE 691 semi-coach is now available with coil-spring suspension front and rear, as well as with...

AWARE THAT the new braking and plating regulations are posing numerous problems for road transport operators throughout the...

FREIGHT TRAFFIC carried by Townsend Ferries this year from Dover to Calais and Zeebrugge is expected to increase by 600 per...

And one good reason why, is that others follow Crane Fruehauf's design lead, but CF 'flats' still remain the best buy for...

O R something similar. Result: the delivery in but six months of a Dove's-of-Croydon-built demonstrator on a BMC FJK 160...

Castle confirms A LTHOUGH several industries set up training boards before road transport took the plunge just over a year...

T HAVE written about practices the engineer can apply to improve tyre life and reduce costs. In the main these practices are,...

THE THE Economic Development Committee for Motor Vehicle Distribution and Repair met on Wednesday to review progress on the...

UK OIL consumption during the first six months of 1967 amounted to 40,819,256 tons (exclusive of bunker fuel for ships in the...

and publications Frost report DRAW, TAKE AIM, FIRE! . . and an iced-up windscreen loses its igloo look, frosted-over glass...

The longest and probably the worst Transport Bill in history —that was Mr. Peter Walker's forecast of Mrs. Castle's legislation...

by JOHN H. FIELDER, AIRTE THE DISCUSSION on the paper by Mr. J. H. Locke, Under-Secretary (Road Transport) MoT, made history at...

View BY THE HAWK Harvest time IN THE LIGHT of the Minister's proposals in regard to professional transport managers, I should...

The Conservative Ministers who succeeded him found most of their energies taken up in reconstituting the structure that he had...

face. .. T HE Frankfurt Show is always important and its engineering aspect in particular. This year's Show is no exception;...

continued from page 55 wanted to reduce costs and simplify maintenance. Wheelbase, overhang, seating layout, window sizes,...

our ianguage, means different things to different people. There is the efficiency of the individual which can denote his...

By F. R. L. Wentworth MA(Cantab), AMInstT, MBIM Distribution director, Schweppes (Home) Ltd. I HOPE that the other speakers...

to the editor Why so many bankruptcies? THE RECENTLY published figures of bankruptcies for 1966 show a total number of 3,706....

the comparative costs of operating cars on company business alternatively by outright purchase, leasing or making allowances...

listing the sizes of containers and pallets used in air transport. As I hope to provide a road collection and delivery service...

A A range of containers for trip or period hire from several ports is offered through Brown Jenkinson and Co. Ltd., Dunster...

article about dust disposal the impression was given that the Rolonof demountable body system is Anglo-German (Sheppard...

requiring the fitting of "black box" recorders in lorry drivers' cabs. Who makes these? A We presume you are referring to...

in regulations in connection with the plating and braking of commercial vehicles I would like to know of any digest available...

agement of a private enterprise company and management of a nationalized undertaking? Are not the philosophies so different...

with pre-war heavy goods vehicle driving licences when the new h.g.v. driving licence proposals take effect? For the last five...

O N WEDNESDAY the new headquarters of the Road Transport Industry Training Board at Capitol House, Wembley, was officially...

IN ORDER TO BE "with it" these days, it is often claimed that managements should all attend courses on the detailed work of...