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I Sit a pipe-dream to consider the possibility, in future years, of a group of operators getting together to use a pool of...
Page 42
Brian La1( raithwaite N APOLEON once slightingly referred to the British as a nation of shopkeepers, but it took a modern...
Governing Smoke By Temperature CIA CCORDING to a well-known research engineer the most critical aspect of diesel engine...
Page 44
FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT R IT Al N 'S 200,000 bus workers can look forward to a pay rise of about three per cent....
Licensing Authority T HE Minister of Transport has selected Major-General A. F. I. Elmslie, C.13., C.B.E., A.M.I.Mech.E.,...
QPEAKING at the annual dinner at Keswick recently of the West Cumberland Sub-area of the R.H.A. Livestock Functional Group, Mr....
T HE general mana g er of Glas g ow Corporation Transport Department. Mr. E. R. L. Fitzpayne, is to meet Mr. James Ness, g...
Page 45
A 40-FT.-LONG articulated vehicle, I – I bearing a cattle container, contravened the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use)...
From our Political Correspondent B RITISH RAILWAYS' outstanding liabilities for advances under the Finance Act, 1956, stood...
Page 46
Sir Henry Spurrier and Mr. Donald Stokes are to make an on-the-spot examination of market conditions for Leyland Group vehicles...
W E regret to record the deaths of Mr. T. W. Atkinson, Mr. W. Berry, Mr. G. W. Haines and Mr. W. A. Timpson. Councillor...
T HE National Benzoic Company has formed a new department—Commercial and Industrial Trade—which will be responsible for the...
Page 47
• n Scotland Take-over Principle is Resolved T HE refusal of a clearing house to continue to use vehicles authorized to a...
TANKERS FOR TURKEY: Thirty normal. control tractive units with •A.E.C. AV690 engines, four - speed main gearboxes and twospeed...
Page 48
A DECISION of the Scottish Deputy 11 Licensing Authority refusing an application by A. Slater's Haulage (Scotland), Ltd.,...
THE E Transport Tribunal, at Edinburgh week, remitted an application back to the Scottish Licensing Authority, Mr. W. F. Quin,...
A 24-YEAR-OLD Sentinel S4 six-ton steam wagon formerly used by a Bucknell, Shropshire, contractor for tar spraying, has been...
Appeal Allowed " rA A NICELY balanced ease" was how the president of the Transport Tribunal, Sir Hubert Hull, described an...
Page 49
From John Moon, Amsterdam VESTERDAY the doors opened on one of the brightest and most international collections of commercial...
A T Newcastle upon Tyne on Tuesday, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, the Northern Licensing Authority, adjourned an application by Siddle...
A T their first meeting on Tuesday the International Committee of the Traders Road Transport Association studied the...
Page 50
Decision Reserved on Wallace Arnold Bids IN an attempt to offer a greater variety of destinations to their passengers. Wallace...
Imports Banned: The Chilean Government has banned imports of road vehicles. WeIdangrind Number : The telephone number of...
F INANC1AL assistance to support a member in fighting a test case on an issue regarded as fundamental to all commercial vehicle...
T HE transport committee of the so-called European Parliament, an organization within the Common Market framework, has approved...
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From Our Political Correspondent THE modernization of the Great North . Road (Al) between London and Newcastle upon Tyne will...
THE • Government has a. slight case. of . "traffic congestion " on , :its The Road Traffic Bill is 'waiting to go ifito ....
the-South eastern 1 - 6.'ffic Commissioners at Reading last week for_ a licence to operate a new stage carriage seOice . they...
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FROM OUR PARLIAMENTARY CORRESPONDENT TH E Parliamentary Secretary to e th Ministry of Transport, Mr. John Hay, last week...
4.P.s had had nothing but evasion from In the Minister of Transport about a debate on the Jack Committee's Report, claimed Mr....
THE possibility of an experiment with remotely controlled illuminated signs which could be switched on in cases of emergency on...
T HE Ministry of Transport was not satisfied that any alteration was justified in the lon g -established arrangement under...
A Nup-to-the-minute report on the London-Yorkshire motorway by Mr. John Hay gave little satisfaction to M.P.s. People nowadays...
T HE Minister of Transport is not yet prepared to commit himself about the compulsory use of dipped headli g hts. "Clause 13 of...
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introduced into the C-licensed fleet of The Stanton Ironworks Co., Ltd., near Nottingham, to cater for loads of concrete lamp...
MO longer was it possible just to 1 acquire the " know-how " of passenger road transport as did many men, still in the industry...
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COMMENTARY by JANUS S TATEMENTS published in Britain about the transport situation in the U.S.A. mostly stress the...
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EXPANSION TRENDS IN HAULAGE E IGHT North Western hauliers seek permission to "switch " tippers from contract A to B licences in...
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T WO examples of a range of Thames Trader normal-control goods chassis are being exhibited by the Ford Motor Co., Ltd., at the...
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By JOHN F. MOON A N articulated vehicle can have a personality. Some outfits seem destined to be ill-matched for the whole of...
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1 )1. frh)ot ■ 1 fr t.r'iii , :(.' NYV: I: Froin inp tr,. H thc--. , tr■ - e ..., (P'.4, r.";ziy 0 1 [Irrto, , Mic . I i _...
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E XPLOITING the potential advantages - of. . frameless construction for tankers and vans is a highly. technical exercise, and...
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Articulated Outfits Particularly Prone to Over loading : Tests Conducted with Varying Loads By A. J. P. WILDING Show Effects on...
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Whilst Artics Can Provide Economic Advantages Over Their Rigid Counterparts, Maximum Gain Can Only be Obtained -by the _ Use of...
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VOLLOWING the recent amendment to.. the regulations regarding excess fuel devices on diesel engines, Kigass, Ltd., and Gardner...