A FTER some 30 years of licensing, it does not seem unreasonable to suppose that the salient points of licensing law are now...

T HE proposals prepared by the Road Haulage Wages Council have now been issued in Notice R.H.(73) and any representations with...

A REDUCTION in the existing "hours-pattern," limitation of total overtime in the year, restriction of night running and...

State and New Jersey are to apply to the U.S. Inter-State Commerce Commission for authority to raise carriage charges by 15 to...

From Our Political Correspondent T HE Ministry of Transport enters the 1962-63 session of Parliament with no major legislation...

Association is next Tuesday to consider a recommendation that it proceed no further with its efforts to secure concessions from...

IAST Thursday, the executive com.!—+ Mittee of the Rodd Haulage Association considered the resolutions debated at the R.H.A....

and District Tipper Operators' Association held its first annual dinner. The guests were welcomed by the chairman of the A s...

is relinquishing in the near future his appointments with British Road Services as the divisional manager, Pickfords Division,...

by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, a book called "50-Point Traffic Census—the First Five Years" was...

T HE Traders' Co-ordinating Committee on Transport is seeking new member organizations to enable it to increase the Committee's...

up last year to deal with the standardization of freight containers, hopes to establish a range which will be interchangeable...

set up a branch on the River Tees. An inaugural meeting of the new branch was held at Stockton-on-Tees on Thursday, when Mr_ S....

A NUMBER of changes are being suggested for the 1963 Lorry Driver of the Year competition. They will be considered by the...

agenda for the next plenary session of the European Parliament (the '.' House of Commons" of the European Economic Community)...

. that as of Noveniber 1 it is to cease requiring transportation authorization for certain loads crOSsing the Frerich border...

agreements with regard to the temporary import of goods, by which the transport into Switzerland of commodities covered by the...

to raise from 30 m.p.h. to 40 the speed limit on three lengths of road across the Town Moor in Newcastle upon Tyne. , This is...

NO LICENCE—APPEAL FAILS A T the sitting of the Transport Tribunal in London on Tuesday, before an appeal commenced, Mr. J. M....

against an applicant from the start, Mr. C. R. Beddington told the Tribunal on Wednesday when he represented Wilson Singer,...

port firm was told by the Metropolitan Licensing Authority, Mr. D. I. R. Muir, on Wednesday, that he had considered imposing a...

F OR operatin g four A-licensed vehicles outside their normal user, the Metropolitan Licensin g Authority, Mr. D. I. R. Muir,...

A N application by Ellen Smith (Tours), Ltd., Rochdale, to introduce day excursions to London was stron g ly opposed by British...

F OR nearly an hour on Tuesday, a case was put to the Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner on the basis that a coach operator had...

easy prey to "bureaucratic interference" from the Scottish Licensin g Authority, complains Mr A. F, Hendry, in a stron g...

T HE main business of Thames Tar Products Contractors, Ltd., of Mitcham Common and Lewes, included a kind of laundry service •'...

objection to an application by Killingbeck (Transport), Ltd., Blackburn, at Preston on Monday, after the applicants had...

available to members from all divisional offices of Traders' Road Transport Association. The front of the form is laid out in...

A N application by Golden Valley Transport. Ltd., of Stoke Gifford. near Bristol, for an A licence (hiring allowance) for an...

by H. Smailes and Co., Acklington, Northumberland. for a variation in their A licence to allow them to carry racing pigeons....

LARGE contract A to B licence rt transfer request appears in the Metropolitan "As and IDs" in the form of an application by...

1-1 A PLEA that he had been misled by the Road and Rail Negotiating Committee was made on behalf of James P. Aitken, Inchture,...

A N application by Mr. D. A. J. Roberts, of Newton Abbot, for an A licence for five vehicles came before the Western Licensing...

T HE Western Welsh Omnibus Company, Ltd., havc.warned that they may be forced to cancel all relief buses they provide to carry...

and others, Preston town planning committee have reaffirmed their approval of the plans of Ribble Motors, Ltd., to modernize...

nUESTIONS about the unauthorized carriage of airmen between Leuchars and Wormit Railway Station were put to a coach operator,...

Northern Licensim . ! Authority refused an application by Mr. James Alderson, of Crook, for a CL: I transporter licence to...

I N a reserved decision, the West Midland Traffic Commissioners have granted applications by four companies to introduce new...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT ONDON TRANSPORT made yet 1 —+ another concession last week in a final effort to get...

'THE new seven-acre bus garage for I Liverpool Transport started operation recently. Situated half way between Liverpool and...

transport committee again went into the question of payment of a service bonus to their bus crews, referred back to them by the...

W INTER schedules for London Transport's Country Bus and Green Line services started on Wednesday, October 24. On 10 routes...

rk A SIMPLE, compact and inexpensive device designed to give safer braking has been announced by the Dunlop Rubber Co. and is...

WITH recent lorry sales in the U.S. W highly encouraging, manufacturers generally arc predicting that more than a million...

NEW coach chassis—the Victor VT21L—has been introduced by Albion Motors, Ltd. The model is designed primarily to suit...

Reiver six - wheeler is now offered by Albion Motors, Ltd. The new model is designated RE.31 and is designed for a maximum...

T HE Scania-Vabis concern in Brazil has been • producing lorries and chassis at the new factory located on the Via Anchieta,...

• Ireland is under consideration by the . British subsidiary of the Michelin Tyre Company of France. Officials of the firm...

T HE French vehicle manufacturers Saviern and Unic have now officially approved York XD third-axle conversions, as supplied in...

now allocated South-eastern France as a separate distribution area for their light commercial vehicles, in agreement with their...

grant of £1,855,630 to the Corporation of London towards the cost, estimated at £3,430,000, of providing an underpass at the...

T HE British Engineers' Association is holding a one-day conference on November 27 on the transport of • engineering goods to...

I N addition to their existing range of semi-trailer fifth-wheel couplings and automatic/fifth-wheel convertors, the York...

A PORTABLE gantry has been rA developed by N. Tamplin and Co., Ltd., Birdham, Chichester. Sussex, for use in conjunction with...

which , can be made into bearings to provide a self-lubricating bearing surface for rotating or reciprocating shafts are being...

I - 1 A NEW range of miniature vehicle fluorescent-lighting units has been introduced by Lab-Craft, Ltd., 83 Ilford Lane,...

TWO more models have been added to the range of Coolie trucks made by The Polymatlffc Engineering Co., Ltd., Tamworth, -...

THE first issue of a quarterly magazine I for tipper operators and other users of hydraulic equipment has been published by...

Motor Services since 1950, is retiring at the end of December. He came to the C.M.S. head office at Whitehaven after five years...

NEW OPERATORS FOR DAIMLER: Recent orders for Daimler buses, worth £335,000, include orders from three operators who are...

I of commercial vehicles in May. 1962 (24,565) than in April (22,385), but the increase was not an appreciable one. Since the...

nNE of the funniest stories told to the Hawk during the Road Haulage Association conference at Bournemouth came from a...

A sense of I an equable a 1g gives Pointer Group drivers to tricky site problems a long y from home I F attack is the best...

COMMENTARY by JANUS B Y tradition an annual conference is the corporate equivalent of a session on the psychiatrist's couch....

M AIN interest from a commercial vehicle angle at this year's Motor Show is in the garage equipment to be seen on the stands of...

T HAVE read with much interest the two letters in your columns from G. Greenwood, of Sydney, New South Wales, and J. W....

BUS COMPANY runs on RAILWAY SCHEDULES W HEN a railway runs a bus line, the only difference in railway minds, is that it runs...

T HE bus and coach operator is the . seaside resort's best friend, Mr. George Brook, general manager of Ribble Motor Services,...

originally designed and built for London Transport, are to be made available in modified form to any operator in this country...

U P-AND-COMING young •salesmen, or beginners in the commercial motor industry who see themselves as future successful salesmen...

O N Thursday of next week new provisions come into effect which will severely control the movement of vehicles carrying long,...

affect hauliers as follows:— Where the width of the vehicle and/or its load exceeds 8 ft., an attendant is required on vehicles...

D URING the past two weeks this series - has been devoted to a description of a recommended cost sheet and the method of its...