CI 0-OPERATIVE working by hauliers received a very full discussion at this week's Road Haulage Association conference, as...

Drastic Plan by Yorkshire Hauliers; Union's Possible Role L'NFORCEMENT of adherence to any I—. scale of rates agreed...

THE Geddes Committee inquieng 1 into goods vehicle licensing, members of which were announced last week, was expected to hold...

MOVEMBF.R 6 is the date set for the 11 hearing of the R.H.A.sponsored appeal . by. Mr. K. P,,Venables, an Enfield haulier,...

N EWpremises housing British Road Services Ltd., B.R.S. (Parcels) Ltd. and B.R.S. (Contracts) Ltd., are to be opened on October...

• A S forecast last week, the European Parliamentary Assembly in Strasbourg has unanimously adopted the resolution on E.E.C....

" MO company in the Reed group is forced to use the services of Reed Transport Ltd. if it can obtain a similar service at a...

D AMAGES totalling £1,175 and costs were awarded to Barry Transport Services Ltd., of Queen Street, London, in the High Court...

Mr. J. T. Trench has been appointed engineer. headquarters. of British Road Services Ltd., having formerly been divisional...

T WO Cardiff men accused of conspiring with two others to cheat and defraud lorry owners by selling B licences at exorbitant...

WE regret to record the deaths of Mr. V , ' E. Goode, Mr. Harold Heath, Mr. W. J. Morison, Mr. J. D. Rose and Mr. J. G....

I N Bedford on Tuesday Mr. J. Gazdar, deputizing for the Eastern Licensing Authority, refused an application by C.ainford Plant...

replacements in the event of railway closures were heard by the Scottish Traffic Commissioners in Aberdeen iast week....

A Napplication by Crosville Motor Services Ltd., Chester, to enable the company to enter the extended tours field was...

out of three applied for was granted to D. Watkinson (Porthleven) Ltd. by the Western Licensing Authority. Mr. S. W. Nelson,...

rlswitch application by S. Prothero and Son Ltd., of Porthcawl, was granted in Cardiff on Wednesday by Mr. R. Jackson, the...

TWO APPEALS AND AN APPLICATION HAVE RECENTLY BEEN HEARI) CONCERNING LICENSING FOR WORK EMANATING OUTSIDE THE OPERATOR'S BASE I...

B Y coincidence, this question came up in the Metropolitan court before Mr. D. I. R. Muir, the Licensing Authority, only last...

THE Metropolitan Licensing Authority, Mr. D. 1. R, Muir, was told last Friday how information about licence discs and...

.TEN new Bristol RE coaches now going into service with the Bristol Omnibus Co. Ltd. represent the first production version of...

last week agreed to introduce a bonus scheme for bus crews at an estimated cost of £30,000 a year. The men's.union had asked...

A LTHOUGH no direct claims were made for the advantages of hydrostatic transmission for standard types of road vehicle at last...

rt A LAST-MINUTE inclusion in the exhibits of Tecalemit ,(Engineering) Ltd. at the Motor Show was a vehicle lift with many...

Thrust Bearing Pre-load NOW, MORE THAN EVER, the term "pre - load" will be found in various vehicle repair manuals, yet quite...

and Publications A RANGE of eight steam cleaners made by Homestead' Valve Co., Coraopolis, Pa., U.S.A., is now being imported...

A DEMONSTRATION I attended recently showed how 1—k a special type of safety kerb could prevent vehicles running off the road....

E NGINE powers are going up, but chassis weights are going down—well, sometimes at any rate. One of the latest examples of this...

R.H.A. to consider setting up 'a vast clearing house' T HE theme for this year's Road Haulage Association conference was,...

it became a trading organization. Mr. R. H. Farmer (Met. and S.E.) spoke in support of the resolution. The second resolution...

"INDOUBTEDLY road transport.. dominates %a dominates the inland transport field so far as manufactured and consumer goods are...

—Labour Man I " WOULD oppose the nationalization of road haulage at this stage because I don't think a Socialist Government...

M R. D. 0. GOOD, national chairman of the Road Haulage Association, proposing the toast to H.M. Government at the Association's...

would like nothing better than to be left free to continue their joint efforts with other •providersof transport to see that...

busmen's representatives decided overwhelmingly in favour of a complete ban on overtime and rest-day working throughout the...

Tram not Outmoded I HAVE just read the article on the Thames 36-ft. coach I in your issue of October 4. It disappointed me that...

Cromwell, setting his glass down carefully on the stretch of counter just wiped clean by the barmaid. "You bring together a...

T HIRTEEN basic designs were exhibited at the Hendon works of Duple Motor Bodies Ltd. this week on the occasion of the Duple...

MEW-SEASON coaches from three 1 ` 1 bodybuilders are among the many vehicles on show at - the p.s.v. sales exhibition staged by...

A MAJOR contribution on warehouse cosfings was a feature of the autumn conference of the National Association of Furniture...

TM MED1ATELY any amendment or addition to the already I multitudinous regulations concerning road transport is announced, the...