otor VOLUME 128 No. 3306 January 24 1969 In the midst of all the regional strife about pay, it makes a welcome change to see...

AMALGAMATED RUBBER OFFER WILL LINK DUNDEE HAULIER WITH SPINKS TRANSPORT • Allisons Freightlines was saved from possible...

• In the first three months of compulsory testing of goods vehicles at Ministry stations the failure rate was a fraction short...

• Despite objections from operators, • • p.s.v. licence fees and charges for • • certificates of fitness are to be increased •...

• With a normal amount of luck. the optimum life of the Leyland 2S /350 /R gas turbine would be I 2,000hr., Mr. Noel Penny told...

From Our Industrial Correspondent • Union leaders representing 170,000 municipal and company busmen met in London last week to...

• Following rejection by Transport and General Workers Union members of a 6d an hour pay rise, the Leeds and District Hauliers...

• Under new arrangements which came into operation on January 21, containers approved by design type (under the ,type approval...

• The Ministry of Transport has been asked to convene a meeting of interested parties to 'consider the growing problem of...

• At a conference organized by the Merseyside Productivity Association, the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board and the Merseyside...

• Details of two courses have been announced by the Institute of the Furniture Warehousing and Removing Industry. The first is...

• According to Mr. C. C. Toyne, superintending engineer, Ministry of Transport, Scotland has not a good record in the MoT...

• The Port of London Authority's lorry prebooking scheme is to be extended to cover cargoes for vessels of the Australian...

• Having visited the site at the week-end, Mr, Richard Marsh, Minister of Transport, has written at length to Mr. J. Prior, MP,...

the Borg Warner Corporation is a four speed automatic unit, said to be the firs: to cover a full range of trucks in the 5.3 to...

• The 80 members of the Transport Association are being asked to complete a questionnaire, covering the first quarter of 1969,...

• The Road Transport Industry Training Board announced on Wednesday that it had paid £9.75m in the form of training grants for...

Have you a sound knowledge of road goods transport and an interest in writing? Then you may be just the person Commercial Motor...

• A trailer division has been set up by R. Murfitt in a new 4,000 sq.ft factory on the trading estate at Marwick Road, Marsh,...

by Roger Howell Container operation on short sea routes ROLL-ON/roll-off or cellular operation on short sea routes? The...

CONTAINERS may now be carried under TIR carnets even when the whole journey does not take place on a road vehicle. This follows...

THE Matterson static gantry crane illustrated has recently been installed at Hull Docks and is designed particularly for...

BRITISH Rail's London Midland Region opened its new international container depot at Montague St., Birmingham on January 20....

• A 3+ per cent increase for British Road •• • • Services clerical and supervisory staff • • was agreed last week with...

From our industrial correspondent • About 20 London Transport bus Conductresses invaded the Transport and General Workers'...

• Experiments to improve bus services are to be made as a short-term measure as part of a £350,000, five-year Tyne-Wear study...

• Mr. Marsh, Transport Minister, is shortly to announce the dates for the setting up of the first four Passenger Transport...

• The first bodies built for Rochdale Corporation Transport by Pennine Coachcraft Ltd. were handed over this month to Mr. J. P....

• The range of choice for British coach operators is to be widened by the introduction to the UK of luxury touring coaches with...

• The Yorkshire Traction Co. Ltd. has recently acquired the shares in County Motors (Lepton) Ltd., previously owned by the West...

• Extensive operational research into oneman working, which has been carried out by Manchester City Transport, was described by...

• By consent of the appellants and the 24 respondents, Wednesday's hearing of an appeal by R. Hanson and Sons Ltd., of...

• Manchester transport committee is proposing to increase fares on the traditional two-man operated buses while those on o-m-o...

• Three applicants, Clark's Coaches of Easingwold, Hutchinson Bros. of Husthwaite and E. and G. Brown of Helperby applied for...

• Halifax Joint Omnibus Committee applied in Leeds on Tuesday to increase all stage carriage fares by Id, while retaining the...

• The grant of an additional B-licensed vehicle to K. Millichamp of Atherstone was deferred until February 1 by the West...

• Liverpool Corporation applied in Manchester this week to renew a stage carriage service between Huyton and the city centre...

• Following an amendment to its application, Ferrymasters Ltd., of Felixstowe, was granted a new A licence in Bridlington on...

• Following the rejection by the Traffic Commissioners of an application by Aberdeen Corporation for a fares increase, a...

• As an anti-vandalism measure, children's fare concessions on football excursions are to be withdrawn by the Trent Motor...

• The West Midland LA, Mr. J. Else, granting an A and B-licence application by Jones Transport Services (Midlands) Ltd. in...

Hugh Browning moves over from Corona The growth of the Milk Marketing Board's transport fleet has led to the separation of its...

• Two-speed landing legs which are only £2 lOs dearer than single-speed models are now being introduced by Intertruck Ltd....

"Forty per cent of British road casualties are pedestrians. These people are injured by striking the front of vehicles". This...

• Continued recovery of the company, despite disappointing results last year, is forecast by the chairman of Dennis Bros. Ltd.,...

• Scholarships totalling £2,100 are being offered in 1969 by the Institute of Transport. They give opportunities for travel and...

• It seems that the description used for British Leyland's commercial vehicle service centre on the southern leg of M1 motorway...

41 Braking distribution and anti-locking devices, aerodynamic drag of light and heavy vehicles, a survey of infinitely variable...

• Co-operation between the Road Transport Industry Training Board, manufacturers, management within the industry and the...

Manpower, maintenance and the MoT (28) by Handyman • Not only is nothing more unsightly than a platform side rave which has...

41 A Reliant-designed and developed crew cab has been supplied to Merryweather and Sons Ltd., for their prototype Marksman...

THE Brussels Show is always given a lot of attention by British vehicle makers as Belgium is one of the Common Market countries...

Manchester Corporation is trying out all possible ways of making omo as efficient as possible. There have been turnstile...

Experimental work at University College Dublin gives promise of outstanding four-stroke diesel developments as well as a super...

BY virtue of Commencement Order No. 1, Section 1 of the Transport Act 1968 was among the sections that became effective on...

Time alone will tell All over the country the Transport Act is being made the subject of discussion at meetings variously...

A VERY experienced transport manager said to me once, as we were discussing labour relations: "If my shop steward and I had had...

Does visible to and fro movement call for immediate action? A In our opinion the maximum wear that can be tolerated at a...

vehicles, 1 have just been informed by my employer that an "all groups" licence issued eight years ago does not now cover me to...

loads carried by articulated vehicles have been amended. Can you confirm this point and also give details of the general...

privately and used as a horsebox to carry our ponies. Being over 30cwt unladen weight the vehicle is exempt from the Ministry...

WHY is it that written examinations with a certain number of questions to be answered in a set time take precedence over any...

Lighting (2) TO continue the discussion on lighting I am turning, this week, to reflectors. All threeand four-wheeled motor...

Wings and Wheels Lid. Cap.: £100. Object: To act as agents and brokers for airplane, steamship and railroad carriers and...

tyre depth gauge from the )1 Clock Company (PoIco) a large, easily decipherable are dial reading 0-22mm. as a danger curve...

veil and Co. Ltd.. of Sheffield, extended its range of mechally attached finned tubes to ude Howco-Crimp-Fin. As name implies,...

Blacks Equipment Ltd. is announcing the addition of an entirely new taper-ferrule to its range of existing wire rope splicing...

The electrostatic spraying of nylon powder is achieved by the Model 3002 unit, produced by Controsion Ltd., with a system...

Nor Ray Vac Ltd. has recently produced a special version of the company's infra-ray gas heating system for a new factory...

The latest version of a multipurpose test unit produced by Power (UK) Ltd, measures the speed in rpm of any revolving surface...

The Department of Employme and Productivity has issued booklet on how noise affects t1 worker, the dangers to hi caused by...

ixatei is an air-drying textured tish announced by Sonneborn td Rieck Ltd., which simulates atherette and can be applied at...

than actually running from A to B. In some cases they must negotiate extremely bad surfaces before reaching their loading...

Following the introduction of spring-brake and lock-actuator kits, Clayton Dewandre Co. Ltd. has produced two illustrated...

Pennsalt Ltd. has announced a highly concentrated jelly-type cleaning compound, formulated to clean, deodorize and disinfect in...

m the newly formed company, iger Engineering Ltd. of Wark, comes a 12 metre hydraulic tform—the Eagle Skyrig ich is the first...

the applications of lsotapes electric heating tapes that are used for protecting pipework against frost. A sevenminute film,...

A wide range of specialized heavy-duty slings for lifting tasks in the construction, maintenance and transport industries is...

An exhauster having an overall length of 7in., a diameter of and a weight of 81-lb has been introduced by Feeny and Johnson...

The Atlas Preservative Co. Ltd (a Burmah company) has developed a polyurethane vehicle finish, the Epidura PU. for the...