DROVIDERS and users of road transport are corn bining to fight the Minister of Transport's railbolstering proposals. This is...

E TRTA considers that the proposed restrictions on road transport of traffic over 100 miles (25 miles in the case of bulk...

THIS is one of two new trailer outfits now operating for Tideswelrs of Kingsley, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. The company is...

r COMMERCIAL MOTOR'S July 28 issue eport on the new licensing proposals, Mr. W. G. Widnall, chairman of the Industrial...

DESPITE strong TGWU protests that the move would hold up "urgent" pay claims (COMMERCIAL MOTOR, last week), the Government has...

PROBABLY the biggest, widest, heaviest load yet transported by road in Britain. That is how this haul is described by Mr. A. C....

HAULIERS in the Western Home Counties area have formed a company, Thames Valley Tippers Ltd., which will have call on more than...

It's a constant battle. This bid to carry hot—or cold. Meat must keep that "freshkilled" bloom. Heat must be applied and...

By A. J. P. WILDING By A. J. P. WILDING B RITISH operators have already placed orders for a gas-turbinepowered lorry which may...

OF STATE STEEL TRAFFIC By John Darker Nottingham branch of the TGWU is trying to prevent road haulage firms which have not...

FACTORY G ENERAL Foods Ltd. has bought a new articulated fleet as the final phase of its move to a Elm. factory in Banbury,...

T " United Kingdom becomes a party to the CMR Convention on October 19 says the MoT. This means that British international...

MR R. A. (PETER) MORRIS (left), who has worked in the oil industry since 1956 has left Shell Mex and BP Ltd. to set up his own...

A REPORT in an influential national newspaper that Geest Industries—whose banana traffic is worth over Lim a year to British...

THE Public Relations Committee of the RHAfirst of the new committees to be set up under the new constitution met on Wednesday....

M ANCHESTER Freighters, Tyldesley, applied in Manchester on Tuesday for 18 new Alicensed vehicles, 70i tons and nine trailers,...

w J. KEEN and Sons, haulage con • tractors, of Essex, appeared before the Metropolitan LA last week at a Section 178 hearing...

Delays of up to a week before collection from premises for delivery by BRS and BR had been quoted to Mr. G. C. Price of Collins...

with EVIDENCE BISCUIT "W E do not deal in common sense here. We deal purely with evidence," Mr. M. JacksonLipkin told a...

0 out of a dozen women employees appeared in the North Western traffic court in Manchester on Monday to support an application...

A RANGE of charges for wide and abnormal loads and for recovering stranded vehicles is to be introduced when the £13m Tyne...

S EVENTEEN B-licence applicants, three objectors and their representatives had wasted journeys to Birmingham on Monday when the...

r ELVE haulage firms were fined a total o v i £498 at Stanhope (Durham) Court on 250 charges of overloading lorries at a...

NEARLY 2,000 workers at the Albion works in Glasgow rejected a strike call by their shop stewards last week. The stewards...

AN MoT h.g.v. testing station is to be sited in Dundee. It was originally intended to have the station in Perth. The station...

B RITAIN'S independent bus and coach operators are being invited to contribute towards the cost of the national campaign...

PTAs would add 25 p.c. to the operations bill 'T'HE PTA PLAN WOULD ADD AS I M I UCH AS 25 PER CENT TO THE COST OF RUNNING...

By JOHN CULLEN THE FIRST of a 10-school-bus order for the London borough of Haringey was delivered this week—forerunners of...

B ETTER service and substantial savings in capital and running costs will result from a new joint operational arrangement on...

B RADFORD Corporation has received permission from the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners to run revised services in the Bingley...

A CONSORTIUM formed by firms in the vehicle-building business is now working on on a guided bus system, but the Government has...

ABOUT 300 bus inspectors may strike unless they are awarded a 25s-a-week rise which they say has been promised to them from...

Sunderland Transport Committee is investigating anomalies in the town's new fare structure. On one workmen's service,...

A PLEA for an international standard for the control of diesel smoke was made by Dr. A. Parker, chairman of an air pollution...

George Arthur Ashley has been appointed a director and deputy general manager of the Atlantic Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., and...

A SIX-WHEELER has been added to its D Series range by Ford Motor Co. Ltd. Although called the D500 6 by 2, the model does not...

F ROM Crane Fruehauf Trailers Ltd. conies a new version (below) of its ConLeader chassis to carry two sizes of ISO and three of...

Prototype level arm loader with 64-ton payload ByPAULBROCKINGTON,AMIMeehE UDBRO is producing a bucket L/loader and a wide...

A lY ACCIDENT needing heavy repair is a serious set-back to a haulage company. Loss of use alone is measured at about 30s. to...

By Sam Buckley THE MINISTER OF TRANSPORT officially opens the Road Transport Industry Training Board headquarters at Capitol...

"THE EXPORTER, the Importer and the Container" is to be the theme of the symposium which will be one of the highlights of the...

SMITH'S Delivery Vehicles Ltd., Gateshead on Tyne, is to manufacture the Unit Body and Developments Ltd., aluminium bodies for...

and publications AREDUCTION in price of 10 per cent has .1 - 1. been announced by Electric Power Storage Ltd., makers of Exide...

BY THE HAWK On Parade THERE they were, about 40 vehicles and drivers ... on parade. I Spotless. Gleaming. Yes, drivers, too....

propose will cost all taxpayers dearly, and depress industrial output even further than the present all-time low. Added to all...

and regular reader of COMMERCIAL MOTOR I should like to comment on the article "A Matter of Life and Death". I have been an...

IN JANUARY, 1966, BRS (Parcels) Ltd. pleaded with the Minister of Transport, Mrs. Barbara Castle, for a 10 per cent rates...

I HAVE NOTICED in recent issues of COMMERCIAL MOTOR various remarks regarding the new 5-ton unladen weight limit in respect of...

WE NOTE with interest the reference to the Checkweight in the article (August 4) by your contributor P. A. C. Brockington. May...

COME people claim that the level of civilization reached by a nation can be judged from the volume of industrial and domestic...

By John Cullen, MIRTE A SCORE of MoT vehicle examiners . . . five-score commercial vehicles, mix them together and what have...

T HE move of medium-weight goods-vehicle manufacturers into the maximum-gross class is logical as plating will prevent...

W AR is likely to break out in earnest before very long between road operators and the Minister of Transport and between road...

of a coach firm expanding due to its work at Heathrow Airport, London. If we, as a small coach firm, opened a branch near a...

hauliers giving cross channel service, is there a comprehensive publication dealing with European law affecting such...

A Primarily the service is intended to help operators with insufficient vehicles to justify employing an expert vehicle...

A Feeny and Johnson Ltd., 134/136 Ealing Road, Wembley, Middlesex, produces kits for cars and light vans, completely tailored...

8-tonner compare with those of a 9-tanner in the quality range? A Assuming the tonnages to which you refer indicate the...

DAY'S plethora of planning features an alarming new r element: large numbers of self-styled experts with no experience...

(I N Tuesday this week nine people died and 34 were injured when a French liquid oxygen road tanker exploded on a bridge at...

T HE NEW University of Salford, formerly the Salford College of Advanced Technology, continues to blaze the trail in being the...

J. Cloutt and Co. Ltd. Cap.: 15,000. Objects: To carry on the business of road transport clearing house, haulage contractors,...

Godfrey Davis (Car Hire) Ltd. has ordered 70 Ford Transit 30 cwt. vans with special bodies by Gamer Motors Ltd. of Sunbury,...

The Dodge Walk-Thru vans have put on weight— Model KB200 600 lb. more, Model K B300 1,000 lb. more and almost all of it where...

by P.A.C. Brockington, AMIMechE Vki NILE recent advances in the design of v v control equipment for electric vehicles, use of...

V ERY few changes have been made to the BMC Mini range of cars over the past eight years which probably explains why this model...

I\/ ANY people may consider that at £1,008 list price the Ford Corsair 2000E is an expensive car for its size. The much larger...

" pt UNNI NG a Jaguar" is an ambition of many car drivers and is still one of the major status " symbols. It is easy to see why...

A LMOST every High Street has a branch of Boots the chemist; in fact it is almost inconceivable that anyone in Britain has not...