CMOULD there be any doubt left in the public mind about whether 1.3 diesel exhaust fumes contribute towards the alarming...

Traders Road Transport Assoc:a tion and the Road Haulage Association are consider:ng briefing Members of Parliament to press...

A NNOUNCED this week by AEC Ltd. is the Mammoth Minor—a twin-steer, sixwheeled, tilt-cab tractive unit designed for a gross...

PA A REQUEST that the Ministry of Transport should be asked to consider a relaxation in the stringent conditions regarding...

Q PER ATORS can now claim against local authorities for damage to their vehicles caused by pot-holes, a change in the law...

A NE'W organization which will have PA available a total fleet of about 450 vehicles is to be put into action by the Hargreaves...

THE Liverpool offices and depot of Silver Roadways Ltd. have been centralized on a new site 100 yd. from the company's,...

THE first Bedford chassis designed specifically for bulk-tipper work was announced this week by Vauxhall Motors Ltd. It is...

S EEN in an accompanying photograph on one of its daily runs across the Welsh hills is a new Guy Invincible whose use fur the...

'THIS outfit (below, right) just out into I service by Northern Ireland Trailers Ltd. has an unsually large container designed...

j'HE distribution of Servis washing'. machine components and spares to 22 depots and the collection of worn parts has, since...

rONSIDERABLE expansion of its transport fleet by Hobbs (Quarries) Ltd., the west country and South Wales quarry and road...

A PLEA for more robust headboards rA to cater for the improved brakin g efficiencies was one of the hi g hli g hts of a talk g...

N EW talks are to be held between leaders of the National Union of Railwaymen and Dr. Beechin g , chairman of the British...

Transport Ltd., has been taken o ver by East bury Holdin g s Ltd., a company in the Joseph Rank Ltd. flourmillin g group....

li q uids group of the Road Haula g e Association on Tuesday, a scale of demurra g e char g es relatin g to bulk li q uid and...

THE Minister of Transport 'this week I refused to g ive a g eneral direction to Traffic Commissioners that when g ivin g a...

MU - 1M April 1, British hauliers opera' ting to the Continent will no longer be required to complete Customs form 29C which...

L ORD WISE asked without success last week for an estimate of the amount of the annual compensation—if any--paid to the Eastern...

T HE -Government last week turned down a su gg estion that there should be re g ulations about -the desi g n and performance of...

H EAVY vehicles still used the A2 road throu g h the Medway towns in preference to the M2 because the motorway Jacked a...

A N appeal by W. Sullivan Ltd. a g ainst the g rant of a five-vehicle 13 licence to Jelks Transport Ltd. by the Metropolitan...

A SUCCESSFUL appeal to the Transi --1 port Tribunal was made on Tuesday by W. Brunskill and Son (Transport) Ltd.. of Bishop...

A N application by W. C. Standerwick Ltd.,. of Preston, to operate for a travel agent an express carriage service between...

winusT I sympathize greatly with the VY people concerned with transcribing the proceedings of court hearings at the...

THERE is likely to be an interesting I hearing when, eventually, applications are heard by at least two operators who have been...

QUNDERLAND CORPORATION, ■ -.) according to the chairman of the Northern Traffic Commissioners, is not charging economic fares....

G LASC OW CORPORATION transport manager, Mr. E. R. L. Fitzpayne, said last week that none of the conclusions he put forward...

Single-deckers in Service T HEfirst rear-engined D a i nt i er r singledeckers to enter municipal service are now being...

A NOTHER threat io London Transport bus services was removed last week when agreement was reached on new pay increases for...

VI' Book failed to appear last year, following the acquisition of the Modern Transport Publishing Co. Ltd. by Ian Allan Ltd.,...

T HE absurdity of trying to apply " factory " hours and conditions to an industry 1.telt as the bus industry was emphasized by...

'THE European Parliamenl Transport Committee is reported to be in agreement with the EEC Commission's proposal on road...

A S a means of achieving a worthwhile payload increase in the process of moving up from a four-axle 30-tong.t.w. articulated...

THERE is no evidence to suggest that I exhaust fumes cause lung cancet. This was said in London on Wednesday . by Dr. P. J....

A TYPE of triple-module Intereonsult • 1-1 . bulk transporter new to the UK was used for the road vehicle section of a...

pulverized materials, such as cement and animal feedstuffs. The compressed air for discharge is obtained, on the unit...

( - AIL seals in their various patterns, as distinct from. oil return threads or scrolls, have a double duty. They retain oil...

THIS week's prizewinner is Mr. C. I Martin, of Alresford, nr. Colchester, Essex. When Bedford KGA automatic coupling tractive...

and Publications Loctite Plastic Gasket L OCTITE plastic gasket, a new polymer, which is said to have ,1-1 been extensively...

N DE p Tif BY ASHLEY TAYLOR AMIRTE, Assoc lost T E VEN in the most harmonious of road transport establishments the task of...

R. D. CATER N OW available for certain applications fitted with the Borg-Warner Type 35 automatic transmission, the BMC J4 in...

By R. D. CATER T HE words "automatic transmission" can raise some doubts in the minds of people unfamiliar with the workings...

VIEW By The Hawk Precision Machinery The Leyland Group is no stranger to large-scale thinking but the organization of a...

Questions for London Transport VOUR correspondent Mr. D. Hackwith (The Colnmercial Motor, March 5) seems to have missed the...

I N recent weeks in this series comments have been made on the growing use of cars for business purposes. In national terms...

THE LUTON COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY is to be congratulated in offering a course in transport management this coming summer, which...