E VERY working day there is 6m. tons of freight on the roads of Great Britain. Some may be bullion. Some will be just plain...

'Package' computer programmes for transport DREARRANGED "package" proI grammes for transport applications are now available...

and organization, the South Suburban Co-operative Society's board of directors have agreed to a five-year plan to bring the...

PIB REPORT PRESENTED THIS WEEK R OAD haulage and bus operation get no bouquets in the first general report by the National...

T HE Transpo rt and General Workers' Union was not prepared to stand aside and let industrial agreements be broken "simply on...

S TRONG protest at requirements under new food hygiene regulations that all food delivery vehicles and mobile shops should from...

Toronto security officer describes method during visit to UK M ODERN criminals are expertly organized; to combat their efforts...

THE TRTA has told the Ministry of Transport that the proposed interim changes in the vehicle registration and excise licensing...

THE proposed route for a further seven miles " of the North Cheshire motorway (M56) have been published as a draft scheme by...

UOUR main requirements have been used as a basis for the development of the new range of semi-trailers to be shown by Hands...

Last week the ACCS Containerway express air service to Belfast started operations from the Bristol area, dovetailing into the...

AN appeal for funds by the Mendip Tipper Operators' Group has been launched by its chairman, Mr. Jim Cox. In a circular to...

W HEN applied to bad cases the higher. up to £200, fines now -proposed in the Road Safety Bfll are not unreasonable ir the...

HE Road Haulage Association has pro1 tested to the Ministry of Transport at the proposal in the new Road Safety Bill that for a...

F R OM September 1, under Section 8 of the Finance Act, 1966, the wei g ht of certain removable bodies used with g oods...

:ontrol than NFA provides rom a Special Correspondent F HE Trades Union Congress believes that inland freight traffic should...

FURTHER support for the TUC General Council's views on transport are contained in resolutions listed in the 1966 Congress...

W ITH the relaxation of restrictions on cross-border road freight between Eire and Ulster, Northern Ireland Carriers Ltd. has...

'CULL co-operation in negotiating rates I' with the Road Haulage Association was assured this week by Mr. John Lough, managing...

W TH one abstention, operators employed by John Wainwright Ltd. quarries in Somerset last week voted unanimously in support of...

From a special correspondent I N an attempt to catch up on at least some of the long-delayed action programme on transport...

ADMINISTRATIVE procedures laid down by the Government impede planning and cause irrational spending on road maintenance, it is...

T HE following have been admitted to the Industrial Transport Association as members:—G. A. Mackay (British Oxygen Co. Ltd.),...

r HE application by The Western Welsh Omnibus Co. Ltd., for a fares increase, ported in COMMERCIAL MOTOR on Lugust 12, was...

APPLICATIONS by Wallasey Corpora tion Transport, Birkenhead Municipal "ransport and Crosville Motor Services Ad., for fares...

A BUS company seeks to reduce fares on its express services to the coast because it was recently granted bigger increases than...

Road Bridge by Her Majesty the Queen on September 8, the Ordnance Survey is publishing new editions of both the local I-in. and...

R ADIO telephones for businessmen wanting to make calls while commuting to Birmingham on luxury coach services were an amenity...

RECAUSE of the Government's prices freeze, the Leeds City transport committee has decided to defer the application to the...

A FTER an amendment that led to the withdrawal of objections, a Cheshire operator was granted a new B licence for 18 vehicles...

application to switch B-licensed vehicles to A licence, it would enable return loads to be carried and he could keep his rates...

Epossibility of converting its Perth city services to one-man operation with iingle-deck buses replacing the present...

T HE first British Electric Traction Group company to order Bristol bus chassis since this make again became available on the...

New management structure planned RADICAL plan for the reorganization of the present management structure under which the...

A T application for a 10 per cent rise in fares has been withdrawn from the Traffic Commissioners by Birmingham City transport...

'Better service to the public, stabilized fares, more emphasis on social need would result' by Derek Moses R EGIONAL control...

W IEN Reliance Motor Services Ltd. ran their last through service from York to Helmsley last June, one long-service driver,...

A MASS meeting of drivers from four Midland Red garages—Birmingham (Digbeth), Bromsgrove, Worcester and Malvern—has been called...

rOMPANIES running buses over the Tay Road Bridge were advised on Monday by Lord Provost Maurice McManus, of Dundee, the bridge...

D URING the demonstration to COMMERCIAL Mama. last week, the Williams Group Deansgate mini-coach on the Ford Transit chassis...

BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT T HE Association of Supervisory Staff, Executives and Technicians is likely to proceed with its...

M ODERN styling, simplified construction, lightness in weight and component standardization and/or interchangeability are all...

O N pages 49-55 of this issue appears a description of Scania-Vabis models which will be available in Britain, together with a...

I T is almost a tradition that a Walsall Corporation Transport bus (or trolleybus) should appear at the Commercial Motor Show,...

T HE only commercial vehicle over 3 tons unladen to use the Tay Road bridge on opening day (August 18) was a breakdown vehicle...

'THE Minister of Labour has approved the proposals of the Electricity Supply Industry Training Board for a levy of 0.02 per...

A NEW parts marketing organization has been set up by the Perkins Engine Group, with its main aim to ensure the continued...

A CONTRACT valued at more than £23,000 for the supply of bodies for 50 tipper trucks which are to be exported to Zambia, has...

Part 23—Three-line Braking: the Tractive Unit Basic System I HAVE already described brake controls I and wheel chambers on the...

A DEVICE designed to ease the fitting and removal of engines and the like is being manufactured under licence, and marketed by...

F OLLOWING the relevant recommendation of the Road Research Laboratory to the Ministry of Transport, Thorn Special Products...

A NEW ADCO timing spanner is designed to enable the timing of Pt a distributor-type injection pump to be advanced or retarded...

and publications Audible warning of theft N AMABLE in various forms, a new anti-theft system that gives an audible warning...

View BY THE HAWK New Site for Simms N EWS that the Glasgow branch of Simms Motor Units Ltd., a member of the Simms Group, has...

. . and improved braking or medium-weight 7ootes models HE main changes to Commer and Karrier models which will L be featured...

BY A. J. P. WILDING, AMIMechE, MIRTE D ETAILS have been announced this week of the models on which Scania-Vabis, of Sweden,...

W HEN I was told a few weeks ago that the Swedish ScaniaVabis goods vehicles were to be sold in the UK it reminded me of the...

'A Convenient Hypothesis' I WOULD like to refer to the report by P. A. C. Brockington (COMMERCIAL MOTOR, June 24) on the...

Tartan Arrow links with THC TARTAN ARROW SERVICE has reached agreement with the State-owned Transport Holding Company whereby...

By P. A. C. Brockington AMIMechE N varying degrees the proven and potential advantages of .incorporating a tracking or...

y IKE the psycho-analyst probing into the subconscious or the Li diver fascinated by the creatures he finds on the floor of the...

EvIRST published in 1911 (and allowing for breaks in war years) the COMMERCIAL MOTOR Tables of Operating Costs now reaches its...

Lecturer in Transport Studies, University of London POSITIVE UNIVERSITY STEPS TN the past I have presented a dismal picture...