The through-transport concept takes a sad knock with the withdrawal of OCL/ ACT'S plans for a combined bill of lading and...

Government meets Opposition on 30 main points from our Parliamentary correspondent • The Transport Bill is to become law— more...

from our political correspondent The Conservative Opposition in the Lords had decided against renewing their challenge to the...

: • project Ts Lucas The zinc/air battery project which is to be • boosted financially by the Ministry of • Technology, as...

from our industrial correspondent • The municipal bus employers are faced with a £6m bill for back-dated pay rises on Boxing...

Far-reaching developments in two different branches of the electrical equipment field are revealed this week. The first...

• An entirely new vehicle lighting device of considerable importance, said to be the first of its kind in the world, has been...

• The unofficial two-day strike among Britain's haulage drivers has been fixed for October 28-29. It is a protest against the...

• The new central workshops for the transport group of Initial Services Ltd., which were opened last week (CM Oct. 18), are the...

on show by E. J. Millen • Development in battery-electric vehicles was the focal point of interest for transport operators at...

vehicle driving course AS previously announced in Commercial Motor, this journal has arranged with the British School of...

• Last Friday the Minister of Transport, Mr. Richard Marsh, opened the final link of the London-Yorkshire motorway. With this...

• The Transport Road Transport Association has accepted the MoT proposal, contained in the booklet How Fast? for a 60 mph speed...

• Although the best results are obtained by fitting complete sets of either cross-ply (diagonal) or radial tyres on a vehicle,...

• Estimated revenue from taxation of commercial vehicles, including fuel duty, in the financial year 1968-69 is £510m, it was...

• A two-day Conference on Security is being organized by the Letchworth College of Technology, in conjunction with the RTIT8,...

• Five transport managers of the Iraq Petroleum Co. Ltd. from Iraq, Syria and the Lebanon and eight transport administrators of...

• The "dynamic growth" of membership of the institute of Road Transport Engineers (900 in two years) was stressed by Sir...

ir On Monday, hauliers from all parts of Britain foregather for their annual RHA conference; 1 on Friday Commercial Motor ',...

Bus Service by Derek Moses • The Transport Holding Company has formed a new company—London Country Bus Service—with a nominal...

• Battery-electric mini-buses might be introduced by Leeds City Transport and also in the city of Chichester, revealed Mr. P....

• Yorkshire Traction Co. Ltd., of Barnsley. has absorbed the Mexborough and Swinton Traction Co. Ltd. and County Motors...

'Double hearsay' • John Birrell and Son, of Markinch, had its appeal allowed by the Transport Tribunal at a hearing in...

• Established low-loader ciperators in the Sheffield area have objected to a nominal increase-in-weight application in order to...

• After what the chairman of the N.W. Commissioners, Mr. C. R. Hodgson, described as "35 years of bickering" the two...

Enforcement by lain Sherriff • Making and implementing legislation is one thing; ensuring compliance with it is quite...

• A service for urgent small deliveries, described by the objectors as a "foolhardy exercise," might be ill-advised for a new...

• A zinc/air battery with a capacity 10 times that of a conventional storage battery, and capable of being recharged...

• The Mark III automatic transmission unit introduced by Automotive Products Ltd. at the Motor Show can be matched with any...

by Handyman Manpower, maintenance MoT (15) • At this stage I think it's necessary to re-emphasize, that the purpose of this...

G. E. Liardet, chairman of Simms Motor and Electronics Corporation, was installed last week as president of the Institute of...

Life is not going to get any easier for road transport in the near future. But we can offer you some consolation. Guy have...

by Roger Howell WITH the transport exhibition and conference season in full swing, it is easy to overlook some of the...

A CM profile of the national chairman of the RHA by Ashley Taylor NOT EVERYONE who has the good fortune to be born into a...

Container transport insurance NEWS from OCL and ACT is that they have withdrawn their plans for a combined bill of lading and...

THE Handley Page subsidiary, Williams, Fairclough and Co. Ltd., demonstrated its new Liqui-fleet container to the technical...

NOW delivered to Atlantic Container Line, mainly for whisky traffic to the USA, is the first of 50 tank-container units from...

LATEST container model introduced by Crane Fruehauf Trailers Ltd. is a 500 cu. ft. pressure discharge hopper model designed to...

by the Hawk *Habit-forming When R. R. Jackson, the South Wales LA, opened the BRS training school at Bridgend, he did so by...

BEFORE the Leyland-BMC merger, the Austin company had designed a 500 bhp gas turbine with a view to giving a 32-ton truck speed...

INFORMATION PLATES FIXED TO TRACTIVE UNITS AND SEMITRAILERS PROVIDE THE KEY TO CATEGORIZATION SYSTEM BY R. D. CATER, AMInstBE...

The proposed fitting of the tachograph which has been described as a "spy" device to record speed, mileage, stops and starts on...

I have delayed writing this letter so that my anger could cool off sufficiently to enable me to express myself in a coherent...

In reply to Mr. Salter's letter on braking methods: I am a p.s.v. driver and in the course of my test for my p.s.v. licence I...

May I ask Philip Salter (CM Sept, 20, "Braking methods") : Who picks up the transmission from the floor after he's brought a...

I was pleased to see the mention of the City of London College's Honours BA Business Studies Course, with its Transport Option...

With reference to the October 4 issue of Commercial Motor. You have an article headed "Tandem-drive by roller" with a picture...

The first item on the "Questions and Answers" page, (CM October 41 states: "It would cost approximately £5,000 to equip a pump...

Sacred text AS A PIECE of legislation such as the Transport Bill moves towards its final form its supporters tend more and...

Communications in transport Customer relations and labour relations may seem to be entirely different subjects but at...

is 7d a gallon rebate on diesel fuel to be granted by the Government to passenger transport undertakings. What is the present...

ably of 16-ton g.v.w. to start in general haulage as an owner-driver. Could you give me some advice on how to obtain a contract...

which would be used as a guide to tyre equipment for vehicle plating. Has this been published yet? A Yes, it was published in...

airlift equipment fitted to the Wynn giant transporter to reduce bridge loading operated on the hovercraft principle. They...

In the last five years there has been a great deal of promise that the universities were at last making efforts to deal with...

LAST WEEK I listed the offences for which it is necessary for the police to give notice of intended prosecution. Now 1 want to...

MURFIrr R. Mullin Ltd.. Wisbech, hasappointed as agent for Northern Ireland R. E_ Hamilton Ltd., at Lislea Drive. Balmoral,...