The effects of the 1968 Transport Act upon public transport are.being sharply felt in both rural and urban areas at about the...

• The co-ordination of competing parcels services provided by various transport authorities in the public sector was...

• Following the warning by the National Bus Co that it is about to shed its non-profit making services (CM last week) comes a...

• A 100-hours continuous test run with a fully laden Leyland Mastiff was successfully carried out by Marshall (Cambridge) Ltd...

• Bussing commercial vehicles from Germany are to be marketed in the UK by Brian Watt, Commercial Vehicles, Wetmoor Lane, Wath...

• Fears that road haulage firms may soon be paying the greater part of the cost of training commercial vehicle drivers were...

• Predictably, the monumental Transport Act 1968 has led to the writing of text books designed to elucidate its many...

• Last Friday morning the 25th Commercial Motor Show was officially declared open at Earls Court by Sir Hugh Tett, former...

• Quick public-spirited action has earned Mr Ernie Buck, a night truck driver of 21 Malborough Street, Dunkirk, Nottingham, an...

• The three-month-old battle for Atkinson Lorries has entered a new stage with the announcement that a fresh approach has been...

• A hub reduction rear-axle has been developed by Scania Vabis and is being offered as alternative equipment on Scania 110 and...

• It has been announced by Chassis Developments Ltd that the company has acquired the sole rights for the manufacture and...

An unusual use for a lorry which had been taken off' the road was disclosed at Bedford borough magistrates' court when Rupert...

• P & 0 last week made an ft m bid for Coast Lines, the UK's biggest short-sea and coastal operator with a fleet of 26 vessels,...

• Two Ministry of Transport vehicle examiners, Hubert William Methven, of Rosemary Avenue, Edmonton, and Leonard Richard Pope,...

• "The wide trading powers given to a gaggle of State bodies in the 1968 Transport Act" should be rescinded; State industries'...

• A £200,000 order for 85 trailers, the most valuable single order ever placed in the company's history has been won by Pitt...

Cummins diesel and turbine developments aimed at 1972 • To meet the proposals for power-to-weight legislation requiring 9 bhp...

• One of the Express Dairy Company's five representatives at the 1970 LDoY National Finals made last Sunday's best performance...

• Easy three-way loading and unloading is a feature of a new type of parcels van being supplied to Harrods of Knightsbridge by...

• Members and guests ot the Institute of Road Transport Engineers attended an "at home" . following the council meeting on...

something for everyone in CM In less than six months decimal currency will be introduced in Britain, and transport men no less...

• To overcome the problem of industrial relations in transport all concerned must accept that the "patient" is going to get...

• Orders worth over £ If m are announced by Atkinson Vehicles Ltd, for its new 38-ton gtw Leader tractive unit. They have come...

• Last Saturday, a coach belonging to Shearings Holidays Ltd carrying a party of elderly passengers to Torquay, burst into...

• Forecasts of reductions of over 50 per cent in rural bus services and routes came quickly last week when State-owned...

• "The management of London Transport is perfectly capable of running a public transport system on a strictly commercial basis....

• Last week a demonstration of a coach fitted out for stereo entertainment was mounted by Radiomobile Ltd, with the cooperation...

• Maintenance shortcomings at Barton's of Basildon had caused repercussions throughout Associated British Foods Ltd, it was...

• A firm was severely criticized, last week, by Mr W. M. Levitt, Metropolitan deputy LA, for not taking seriously enough the...

• David Gilmour. of Kirkintilloch, amended an 0 application at Glasgow last week from four vehicles and four trailers including...

• Mr H. E. Robson, Eastern LA, granted last Tuesday to R. D. Munson Ltd, of Lady Lane, Hadleigh, Suffolk, an 0 licence for 32...

• An application by Oval Transport, Dagenham, for an 0 licence for four vehicles and two trailers with a further two artics...

• The North-Western LA, Mr H. A. Jolliffe, at Liverpool on Wednesday reserved his decision on an application by Kirk and Co...

• A joint hearing of two road service licence applications made by the North Western Road Car Co Ltd, Ribble Motor Services...

• Smith and Leishman Ltd, of Glasgow, was granted an 0 licence for five vehicles and two trailers including four vehicles and...

CM's technical staff try the models in Earls Court's demonstration park and find Gardner's new 8LXB and Scania's V8 very smooth...

Conference paper by Volvo technicians reveals that an experimental turbocharged/charge-cooled diesel provides a weight-to-power...

by Handyman Benchwise: lathe sense (32) ALTHOUGH there is no call on most vehicle fittings for long deep threads, the...

A revised edition of CM'S Guide to Drivers' Hours and Records has just been published. It incorporates the amendments to the...

Frank B. Ford • The new group chairman of Duple Motor Bodies Ltd, Frank B. Ford, is essentially a retiring person. Not for him...

D. C. V. Lanfear, 39, general manager of the motor division of Rubery, Owen and Co Ltd has been appointed a director. Mr...

by John Vann, FCII Free legal defence • It's not possible to take out an insurance which is against public policy. As an...

by the Hawk • New champion? Road transport may be getting a new spokesman at national level. At CM's Fleet Management...

Conference report by lain Sherriff, John Darker and David Lowe SOME 450 DELEGATES attended the seventh Commercial Motor Fleet...

FOR two years or more, manufacturers in this country have been designing and testing vehicles at well above the existing...

Earls Court this year and this is that the quality of trailer manufacturers' products has continued to improve. At the last...

by Paul Brockington, MIMechE WILL TIR tilts and frameless vans make a xmeback for roll-on /roll-off deliveries to the...

but the swing back to doubles continues by Derek Moses "LEYLAND'S Transport Revolution—National Bus" is the proud claim that...

SO FAR AS local authority vehicles are concerned, this has been a disappointingly lean Show although . that fact is fully...

by Norman M. Douglas A monthly intelligence report on container topics Few containers at Earls Court—but plenty to see abroad...

Where Ignorance is bliss by janus N 0 conscious intention to deceive was in the mind of Parliament when in the Transport Act...

matters by John Darker, AMBIM a Minimum power-to-weight- the pros and cons examined (2) IT IS generally accepted that any...

by Les Oldridge, AIRTE, AMIMI Causing death by dangerous driving THE most serious offence contained in traffic law is the...

under 30cwt unladen, drawing a fourwheeled close-coupled trailer weighing less than 1 ton unladen (attached by normal caravan...

engine, and I should be grateful if you could let me know whether you have completed a road test on this vehicle I am shortly...

ship loaded vehicles to the Continent, where the majority are off-loaded at the port and returned. Delays in off-loading occur...

I ask this because I frequently come down M6 and join M5, and for several miles the gantries are arranged so as to divide the...

my fleet of some 120 vehicles on the grounds that my present cover is too expensive. A study of Commercial Motor figures leads...

THE GREAT UPSURGE of interest in road transport training and education has sent waves in all directions. Caught in the main...