The West Midlands Passenger Transport Authority is impatient to get its hands on the bus operating powers of its Executive, to...

Policy statement reveals frustration • The West Midlands PTA and the National Bus Company, having failed to agree on terms for...

Gibb Grace samples Antilok and is impressed • I have never been involved in a heavy-vehicle accident, let alone a jack-knife....

• A motif of interlinked circles has been adopted as the symbol for the recently merged Seddon Vehicle Group and Atkinson...

• The West Midland group of "assenting" haulage contractors now calling themselves a consortium—have stated their...

by John Darker • Confirmation of the TGWU's plans to get a recognition payment for possession of an hgv licence appears in the...

from our industrial correspondent • Following the recent announcement by Mr Robert Carr, Minister of Employment, that...

• The ETA has formally objected to the proposal that goods vehicles should be banned from using nine off-street car parks in...

• "Unit loads in distribution—the sensitive areas" will be the theme for the 1971 Institute of Materials Handling National...

• One of the exhibits to be shown at the Works and Highways Exhibition next month by Melford Engineering Ltd, of Cottenham,...

• "Streamlined" pressure tankers aimed at affording extra safety are being put into service by the Mond division of ICI Ltd. at...

• A £200,000 depot for tanker vehicles was officially opened in Avonmouth, Bristol, last week. The depot, belonging to Leonard...

• Transport Development Group Ltd has acquired the entire issued share capital of W. and J. Riding Ltd of Longridge, near...

• Top speakers from all fields of transport—road, rail, sea and air—and export/distribution executives will come face to face...

• A new apprenticeship scheme introduced by Williams Brothers (Wales) Ltd, of Queensferry, will be closely watched by road...

, name-change • The ERF division of the Normand Group of Companies previously known as Normand Vehicle Distributors Ltd, will...

• "The Total Concept of Physical Distribution Management" is the title of a four day symposium arranged jointly by the Centre...

• The programme of exhibitions in 1972 at which commercial vehicles and/or psv will be shown includes six major truck shows....

P. J. Maxon, fleet engineer and transport manager of Eden Vale (North) Ltd, is to join Engineering Division, Unilever Ltd, on...

111 On sales of £7.65m, Edbro (Holdings) Ltd made a trading profit of £987,065 in the year ended March 31, 1971. Profit after...

by Derek Moses • The university city and tourist centre of Oxford receives much more than the average number of holiday makers...

• Sunderland Corporation transport committee has been urged by the divisional road engineer of the Department of the...

• Scottish Omnibuses Ltd has tabled plans for a major bus terminal on Renfrew Street, Glasgow, involving a new bus station and...

service for Cowley? • A feasibility study is being made by City of Oxford Motor Services Ltd into the possibility of...

• During the financial year ended March 31 1971 Hartlepool Corporation Transport made a gross profit of £23,792, but after...

• The Northern LA. Mr J. A. T. Hanlon. in Billingham last week, curtailed under Section 69 of the Transport Act 1968 the 0...

• A Yorkshire haulage company whose vehicles have attracted eight GV9s (seven immediate and one delayed) this year had its...

• Motorists entering or leaving car parks during peak periods should pay a surcharge, or, better still, cars should not be...

• The Yorkshire Licensing Authority, Maj Gen Sir John Potter, decided to take little action against a Wakefield firm when it...

• A Rosshire haulier had five of his vehicles removed from his operator's licence at Inverness this week. The Scottish LA heard...

• Decision was reserved on an application by C. Wright and Sons, of Penycae, when the company applied to the North Western...

• The time taken to calibrate road tankers by Texaco Ltd, at its Kingsbury, Warwickshire, distribution terminal has been...

• A dual-purpose pantechnicon, based on a Seddon chassis and built by Boalloy Ltd, of Congleton, has recently been supplied to...

scissors lifts for BEA • A contract has been won by Telehoist Ltd, of Cheltenham, a member of the Wilmot Breeden Group, for a...

• A special insulated version of Neville Truck Equipment's Uni-dump tipping semi-trailer has been developed for use by civil...

William Hampton Ltd Any maintenance that wants doing is done now: is the precept on which the operation of the William Hampton...

a ountry: specia report LABOUR RELATIONS ROUND UP by John Darker, AMBIM THE pattern of labour relations in the West Country...

Jeff Baylis • If trade associations like the RHA are to flourish in the difficult political and commercial environment of the...

y our tax by R. H. Grimsley BCom, FIAC 3. Disposing of the company's profit THE COMPANY has made a profit for the year. The...

Out West recently, I received striking confirmation that the resourcefulness of parcels operators knows no bounds. Euan...

by Les Oldridge, AMIRTE, MIMI Traffic signs (1) TRAFFIC SIGNS become more numerous each year. "Keep Left", "Keep Right". "No...

by Handyman Benchwise: cool it (16) THE WATER PUMP is the only driven unit in the cooling system. Most people tend to think...

Licence to print money WHETHER or not they are statutory, new qualifications are bound to encourage the claim by the holder...

WINDSOR by Derek Moses ALTHOUGH psv operators may associate the Royal Borough of Windsor. undoubtedly one of the most...

Regarding Mr. Law's demands for a £2.50 a week bonus for the holders of hgv licences I"Birmingham Differential", August 6 CM)...

Competition from owner-drivers • Those who took the opposite view to myself and forecast that the Transport Act of 1968 would...

your Q & A page last week regarding the unladen weight of vehicles with demountable bodies for hgv testing and taxation...

articulated semi-trailer into a mobile exhibition vehicle. The exhibits will be permanently fixed inside the vehicle and when...

tough year for haulage operators and truck manufacturers alike, so that total sales of vehicles are likely to be well down, but...

abroad you referred to, and illustrated, a form of double-bottom outfit developed by Fiat in Italy, in which, if I remember...

Get organized and assess how well you deal with your employees by F. S. D. Davies and S. J. Rayfield MANAGERS, TASC, ROAD...

next week's special Tippers and tipping vehicle operation will be the theme of next week's big issue of Commercial Motor. This...

by Inspector K. W. Norman Windows let in more than light • Windows let in more than light, and, along with roof lights,...