The platform speeches at the meeting of militant shop stewards (numbering more than twice the attendance at an operator...

How the tactical campaign has paid dividends — but will the IR Act frustrate further advance? by John Darker • Remarkably...

• Mr John Peyton, Minister for Transport Industries, has been elected chairman of the Council of Ministers of the European...

• A Passenger Transport Authority is to be set up for the Greater Glasgow area. Announcing this Mr Gordon Campbell, the...

• Export-finance group Tozer Kemsley and Millbourn (Holdings) Ltd, announced last week that Price and Pierce (Holding Co) Ltd,...

• Immediately following the statement to the House of Commons on December 15 by Minister for Transport Industries, Mr John...

• From January 1, UK hauliers will be able to apply to the Northern Traffic Area office in Newcastle for a permit for journeys...

• Heavy weighbridges should be installed at all ports, so that commercial vehicles arriving in this country were each...

• Nine lorry drivers, who were suspended by United Glass Ltd, St Helens, for refusing to deliver goods when it was foggy, have...

• A course in road transport management for junior managers is to be held at the Ealing Technical College, School of Management...

• The road transport trade unions' application for a general increase of £3.20 a week was rejected by the Road Haulage Wages...

• A special team of "Softly, Softly" detectives on Monday closed their files on one of Britain's largest-ever hijack gangs. The...

• The January-June 1972 edition of the ABC Goods Transport Guide has just been published, listing town by town the haulage...

• Freight Information Services' next survey. Movement of Freight Rates, to be published in January. will report on rates over...

• From January 3 1972. commercial vehicle drivers using Erskine Bridge will be able to pay their tolls, at present 50p each, by...

• The FTA is to run a series of seminars specially designed to prepare transport and distribution managers for the likely...

• A case for concessionary tolls for intensive users of the Merseyside Tunnel will be presented to the Joint Committee in...

• The PLA and Comar Container Line have completed an agreement for a new container service between Tilbury and Zeebrugge to...

• Midland Red, after paying off a £700,000 loss in 1970, has broken even in the present financial year to December 31....

• Claims that buses made with composite bodies were crushed flat to seat level if involved in accidents, were mentioned in the...

• A suggestion has been made to the Department of the Environment by the National Council on Inland Transport that wear and...

• The Cumberland Parish Councils' Association, having studied a questionnaire completed by some 65 of its member councils, has...

• Double-deck buses may again become a familiar sight on the streets of New York, as part of a campaign to improve public...

• A grant towards a three-year study of passenger transport needs in Wales, sponsored by the Welsh Council, was announced last...

• Because of injuries sustained when she was run over by a Chesterfield Corporation bus, Mrs Winifred Richards, 64, was awarded...

• Bus crews in Scotland are to wage a "vigorous campaign" against pending Government legislation which would allow private...

• R. D. Spittal Ltd, of Glasgow appeared at Glasgow last week under Section 69 when the company admitted failure to keep a...

clerk's error • The failure of the clerk to Lancaster magistrates to obtain a magistrate's signature on more than 170...

• Granting the West • Midland PTE's application for fares increases of .1p on 252 services. the West Midland Traffic...

• The National Guild of Transport Managers has suggested in a letter to the Minister for Transport Industries, Mr John Peyton,...

• After a Department of the Environment swoop on Brighton Corporation Transport, 17 of the undertaking's buses were subjected...

• Telehoist Ltd has produced a simple axle overload indicating device at a price as low as £48. This new product, known as the...

• Although there was not yet "an avalanche of orders", sales of Seddon and Atkinson heavy trucks were on the way up, Mr H....

• H. Clarke and Sons Ltd, Lutterworth, has announced its intention of modifying the Trans-Lift demountable body system. The...

• Heated freight containers designed to withstand the extreme cold of Canadian winters are being 'produced by Steadman...

• York Trailer engineers have developed what is thought to be the first-ever skeletal drawbar trailer tailored to a demountable...

• A new Ford Transit option "pack", designed specifically for had weather operation and increased vehicle security, is...

Peter M. Yates is to head up the UK commercial vehicle and engine activities of Mercedes-Benz (Great Britain) Ltd from January...

by Gibb Grace, DAuE. CEng, MlMechE IF the road transport industry wishes to restore its image with the general public I...

Sweden's 'season' of goodwill is a new run-about ticket designed to boost public transport by lain Sherriff. MITA, AIRTE ANY...

by the Hawk * Hard times? Is anyone making money out of containers? With the London Hilton's best offerings 'lowing freely,...

Joe Fagg • There is no more Christmassy character in transport than Joe Fagg, the Ashford haulier. Joe is a bouncy, cheery...

by Handyman Auto-electrics for the mechanic (1) A GROWING problem in road haulage vehicle repair today arises from the vastly...

No Saving Claus "SUGGESTIONS for Christmas gifts cover a wider field each year," said Mag,gie's brother Cromwell. "Apparently...

Accuracy — real or imaginary? • It is both understandable and praiseworthy for a road transport operator to try to ensure...

DISTRIBUTION Body swop test By harnessing the movement of the chassis as it backs under (and drives out from) the parked body,...

Non, non! say the French • President de Gaulle's traditional "non" finds an echo in the current French attitude on transport,...

The RHA Essex Group Training Association is likely to be faced with some interesting problems if it intends using the vehicle...

I was interested to see the two letters on the environmental issue (CM December 10 1971), Mrs Cicely Denny says "Nevertheless....

Although Mr Hookes (CM December 10) says that he is only a layman he has, of course, summed up correctly many of the obvious...

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• October 1 that you included a write up of an engine control system known as "Robomatic". Knowing full well that you are very...

merchant and have always driven heavy goods vehicles but approximately four years ago I changed over to work as a fitter for...

basic rates of pay for a Class 1 hgv driver are? A There are no fixed rates of pay or working weeks for Class 1 hgv drivers as...

matters By John Darker ' AMEIM The Industrial Relations Act 9, the functions of the registrar UMPIRES in all sports have had...

by Les Oldridge, AMIRTE, MIMI Public service vehicles ,(5) I COMPLETED last week's article by dealing with the conditions...

Torque and speed control TASC drive units offering a variablespeed drive system have been developed by Pye Electric Ltd. The D...

Warwick Pump & Engineering is now marketing Diemo portable space heaters in this country. Nine models are currently available...

A suction cleaner designated the GT31 which may be of interest to psv operators has been produced by Nilfisk. It is mounted...

Collapsible pullspouts, which facilitate pouring from metal drums and containers, are now being marketed in the UK and overseas...

from the Central Film Library is titled The Prevention of Fire. It illustrates the main fire hazards in industrial premises and...

A booklet containing information on the complete range of Avon industrial tyres, both pneumatic and solid, has been published...

A five-in-one rear lamp clustE developed for coach and publi service vehicle application b Lucas and considered suitabl for 12...

Kerbside fendered crossply and 'adial retread tyres, 6.50-16. 3 n d 7.50-16in size and Do nsi de red suitable for milk Floats...

(Framlingham) Ltd. have now extended their range to include a 5ft x 2ft chain (rope carrier, also suitable for carrying...

with Andrews Industrial Equipment Ltd to market a new range of chemical products under the name TakAndrews. They have been...

by Trevor Lou l,croft Costly replacement of vehicle tyres—often with ample tread still remaining — is forced upon many...

An addition to the Bendix Westinghouse range of wheel service equipment is the commercial vehicle wheel trolley. It enables...

Two mobile high-pressure washers both using cold water and powered by electric motors have been added to the Kleen King range...

Three models of hydraulic crane — the AC with 1, 1.5 and 2.5 tons maximum lift capacities and a maximum lift of 1 ton at eft...

Link MK colour bins — in widths of 92mm and 'It and in two depths, 30C 400mm — will fit into E any standard racking sy and hold...

A Haskei air-driven r designated model MDT5 complete separation for exchange of contaminant victing flows of up to 3 gp...

An optical tachometer well suited to meeting the Abrasive Wheel Regulations, which were effective from April 1971, is now...

A simple mechanical safety device which will safeguard both petrol and diesel units against seizure or major damage due to...

Hydrotrole Ltd, a manufacturer of all types of separator hydropneumatic accumulators, is offering a free guide to the correct...

A miniature recording system suitable for use for measuring and recording mechanical stresses and strains, oil temperatures,...

TransFrig are now making a range of independent enginepowered transport refrigeration units. Of one-piece design, the unit...

Examples of progressive thinking by David Lowe, MInstTA, AMBIM TWO OF the major sources of transport job training and...