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Page 47
F is fortuitous but very appropriate that the anriouncement of a range of new haulage models and a road test report on a...
Page 48
DROPOSALS for financing the I training of the million people employed in the road transport industry will be submitted to the...
A N 8 ,000 sq. ft. commercial vehicle service centre complete with office block built for Eastern Truck Sales Ltd. at 131,...
CUSTOMS in Antwerp and Rotterdam are becoming increasingly strict about clearing units shipped from the United Kingdom by the...
THE OXFORD LDOY elimination contest is on July 2, with the start at Morris Motors Ltd. and tests at Pressed Steel Fisher Ltd.,...
W ITH the opening of the new passenger car ferry between Southampton and Bilbao this month, Swedish Lloyd and Mac Andrews are...
A SAFETY training officer is to be appointed by the Road Transport Industry Training board because it "recognizes that safety...
Page 49
COURT OF APPEAL this IE week decided that a warehouse storekeeper had acted within the scope of his employment when he tried to...
AUTHORITIES in England and Wales are being called on to make a "determined attack" on the problem of industrial noise. The plea...
NOW AVAILABLE, the 1967 edition of Who's Who in the Motor and Commercial Vehicles World (Temple Press Books, George Newnes...
Page 50
the goods vehicles inspected by MoT examiners in 1965-66 had defects serious enough to warrant immediate prohibitions,...
T HE Norwich haulage company, Pointer Group Transport Ltd., will he moving four new London homes a day for the next five...
MAXIMUM recommended retail prices (including delivery) of models in the new Ford 01000 heavy truck range (see page 76) are: 16...
for a £750 Rees Jeffreys studentship tenable at the London School of Economics for a year of full-time research into the...
three container ports and 10 inland depots where container traffic would be broken down was the forecast made by Mr. Dudley...
LATEST developments in contractors' plant and equipment. ranging from earth-moving equipment to protective clothing, will be on...
Page 51
I F progress was to be made co-ordination between providers of transport training and education was essential. There was no...
Page 52
three-country look at the top for the TRTA pNGLAND, Scotland and Wales, this year for the first time all have a representative...
Page 55
Government is worried r about the number of hauliers who successfully resist prosecutions for breaches of the regulations by...
THE QUESTION of whether four speed limits are too many is among the matters under review by the inter-departmental Working...
From Our Political Correspondent i k N attempt to tighten the law's control rk over vehicle smoke, fumes and other pollution...
THE GOVERNMENT this week refused to stop firms accepting goods only on lorries driven by trade union members. Mr. Walter Loveys...
THE MINISTRY of Transport's central offices for motor vehicle registration and licensing and drivers' licensing, and those for...
Page 56
B RMSH RAILWAYS failed to make out a prima facie case at an inquiry in November 1966 in the Scottish Southern area when they...
THE Transport Tribunal last week in Edinburgh dismissed an appeal by W. T. Bathgate (Limeworks) Ltd against a decision of the...
Page 57
E credit squeeze has had an adverse effect on this season's British tour bookings, the North Western Traffic Commissioners were...
Mr. David Bryson, for the Corporation, said the application would mean 32 services a day instead of the present 13 which...
O N the fourth and final day of the appeal by 18 RHA objectors to a 12-vehicle grant for the British Railways Longsight...
A N application by Andrew Watson (Haulage) Ltd.. for an A licence for six articulated vehicles from Murray's Pipeworks Ltd.,...
A MERTHYR TYDFIL haulier had one of his lorries removed from his B licence at a Section 178 inquiry at Cardiff on Tuesday. Mr....
Page 61
M rs. Castle on future shape L ONDON TRANSPORT lost £5.9m. in 1966 and carried 7.2 per cent fewer passengers on its buses and...
A DECISION is expected early in June on an application by about 100 inspectors, foremen and clerks employed by Tees-side...
From our political correspondent rrHE London Transport Board should be scrapped, and its bus and Underground services taken...
Page 62
I F the Potteries Motor Traction Co. Ltd. was to become an appendage of some remote over-sized Conurbation Transport Authority...
By Derek Moses THERE were considerable advantages In A the adoption of a modern electrical system of overhead transport for...
Page 63
BY PAUL BROCKINGTON A DIESEL engine providing a constant horsepower characteristic from half speed to full speed is being...
SPECIFICALLY to cater for the Walsall Sewage farm at Bescot, a tipping version of the Swop demountable-body system has been...
PRODUCTION of commercial vehicles in the five weeks ending April I averaged 7,246 a week-27 per cent fewer than in March 1966....
Page 64
r I NE easy mistake to make when intro ducing this exercise, with nothing in the way of first-hand knowledge of staff calibre...
By A. J. P. Wilding A SERIOUS reduction in parking-brake ri efficiency can result if brake units powered by spring-brake...
Page 69
U S-FIRED indirect warm-air heaters which meet the requirements of the new Gas Council Draught Regulations have been introduced...
J. Zim-Air, has infinitely adjustable stepless speed control, and produces a maximum up or down load speed of 200 feet per...
INTRODUCED by Perth Enthone is an emulsion cleaner claimed to have many advantages over vapour degreasing equipment. The new...
A USEFUL new booklet, "Getting Acquainted with Motor Oil", has been published by Duckhams Oils. The booklet, written in an...
o N show this week at the London International Engineering and Marine Exhibition, Olympia, is a representative selection from...
Page 70
AT Brighton on Monday, the first British exhibition covering international freight movement and the freight management...
Page 75
A LONGlist of advantages claimed for a Russian heavy-duty air-bag brake actuator includes uniform distribution of braking force...
Page 78
BRIEF announcement was made by the Ford Motor Co. at the time of the Commerical Motor Show last September that it intended to...
Page 86
T HE soft sell approach which the Minister of Transport has adopted towards trade and industry may be found effective. So...
Page 91
(semilulomalic)/Scommell 30-ton-glw. orlic BY A. J. P. WILDING, AMIMechE MIRTE ERE is no doubt that the future for heavy...
Page 97
View BY THE HAWK Castle Canmery TN view of the uproar in political quarters at the mention of dogs, I thought it was very...
Page 99
Tri-axle tankers WE WERE very interested to read in your section "Readers Write" on March 31 about the 3-axle tank trailer of...
Page 103
T HE Industrial Training Act of 1964 is here to stay, as is the Road Transport Industry Training Board which came into...
Page 105
you provide information regarding its use in this country or overseas? A A road-speed governor has been applied...
cwt., 10 cwt. or 1-ton van when averaging 500 miles a week both with and without a driver's wages? A Allowing for basic...
A A complete articulated vehicle is not allowed to tow another vehicle because this would, in effect, constitute a goods...
driver/warehouseman to a junior executive post but I am doubtful if he has the ability to undertake customer correspondence and...
intensive trunk haulage. What special features thereby arise which can affect operating costs? A Where the principle of...
ger transport for a public utility to convey workmen to sites and a 12-seater bus was recently purchased for this purpose. What...
A A "rope calculator" may be obtained free from ICI Fibres Ltd., Industrial Uses Department, Hookstone Road, Harrogate, Yorks....
to a C-licence operator with payment being made on a time basis. The customer is now suggesting a tonnage rate. What are your...
wish to know of any books on the subject together with details of correspondence courses which are available to assist me in...
A Yes — the Electric Vehicle Association, Trafalgar Buildings, 1 Charing Cross, London SW1. It was founded in 1933 and...
Page 106
The difficulty of 'Elements of Transport' A LETTER to the Editor of COMMERCIAL MOTOR last December complained of ineffectual...
Plaxtons feel the deflation package pinch r E latest half-time report put out by Plaxtons (Scarborough) c i learly shows the...