In trying to eliminate the former widespread misuse of trade licences the authorities have now gone beyond the bounds of common...

1 0 An amendment, under the 1970 Finance Act, to the definition of recovery vehicles means that operators will not be able to...

• Allied Ironfounders Ltd is likely to be plying for hire and reward early in September. This large Scottish own-account...

• A new company in the Unilever group, Unispeed Ltd, has made application for an operator's licence in the Eastern traffic area...

• An infinitely variable power-transfer mechanism that is claimed to provide outstanding performance advantages is a feature of...

• During the week from Monday, August 31 to Sunday, September 6, thousands of road operators will be taking part in the "HOOF"...

• Concern that road hauliers may not be able to cope with the longer working hours at London docks, presaged by the probable...

• The South-western division of British Road Services Ltd has become a shareholder and a member of South Western Traffic Ltd,...

• A haulage contractor who tried to start up business on his own failed because of his lack of business sense, it was said last...

continued from page 12 definition of a recovery vehicle (now embodied in the 1970 Finance Act) which is based on "construction"...

• Hauliers in the North of England are feeling the effects of containerization of Australian-UK traffic. The ports of Liverpool...

from a special correspondent • The European AETR regulations will apply to British drivers of trucks and coaches when operating...

• Hull Euroscan Ltd, the managing :onsortium, and Trans.-European Pallet services (Great Britain) Ltd. the operators. lave...

I Although not taking place until October 4, arrangements for the 36th BEN Fund totor ball at London's Grosvenor House -e...

Latest addition to the 39-strong fleet of Albany Laundry, of Southend, is this Commer KC 25 fitted with a Coachwork Conversions...

• A company director who used a Land-Rover to tow his caravan from its site at Sheringham, Norfolk, to his garage at Kettering,...

• Specialist paint manufacturer Joseph Mason and Co Ltd, of Nottingham Road, Derby, wants to reward the lorry driver who left...

• A double-decker vehicle for carrying two small boats has been designed and built by Locomotors of Mitcham for SS Glassfibre...

• Eight drivers working for a Sheffield haulier—one of them the owner's son— who did not record excessive hours on their log...

• The £39,000 Wallasey—Birkenhea cross-dock traffic warning scheme, whic will indicate to drivers which of the thre routes...

• When Jack Brown, managing direct of Atlas Express Ltd, was travellii between Oxford and London on Wednesd afternoon he...

• The Hawker Siddeley Group was fined £6 at Bow Street magistrates' court last Friday for using a motor vehicle which was not...

I The Lancaster Centre for Operational lesearch is repeating its three-day course. /perational Research for Transport and ■...

The fifth annual International Industrial 'aining Exhibition and Symposium (Intex ) will be held at Alexandra Palace. exandra...

and freight handling by David Lowe Safety in Mechanical Handling • The principal dangers in the mechanical transport of goods...

• In addition to the option of the Leyland 680 engine in the Daimler Fleetline chassis (CM August 14), other improvements to...

• A new fares structure for children is to be operated by Maidstone and District Motor Services, a National Bus Company...

• Four aspects of road transport will b featured by J. H. Sparshatt and Sons Ltd, o Portsmouth, on Stand No. 116 at Earl Court....

• The 70 trolleybuses operated E Bradford transport department are to t withdrawn—possibly in two years—denei dent on the...

• Halifax busmen, after two spec meetings last week decided that 23-yearSandra Holt could keep her job as the fi and only woman...

A six-man committee is to investigate e workings of Belfast transport partment to try to avoid a 50 per cent . :rease in bus...

• Last week the West Midland Passenger Transport Authority accepted its Executive's recommendation that a needed £3m extra...

• A hope that the West Midland Passenger Transport Executive might decide to emulate the other three PTEs and join the MPTA's...

• Newspaper speculation that the Minister of Transport was considering the partial dismemberment of the SELNEC PTE, and the...

• One of the exhibits on the stand of Bristol Commercial Vehicles Ltd at Earls Court will be an RELL single-decker, which will...

MPTA conference discussion • In the discussions at the Municipal Passenger Transport Association annual conference at...

• During questioning at a public sitting of the West Midland Traffic Commissioners last week, a witness for Direct Coaches...

for 10-year-old vehicle • A timber merchant and a french polisher were each granted an 0 licence by the North-Western LA, Mr...

D At Bradford City Court last week Wallace Arnold Tours Ltd pleaded guilty to i 1 charges of permitting their drivers to lrive...

• Two companies based at Axminster, J. Lane and Son Ltd and Barbers Animal Products Ltd, were both granted carrier's licences...

P. A. Land, managing director of British Express Carriers Ltd, has been awarded the Herbert Crow Medal for his paper - The...

British Leyland Advanced Driving School at Abingdon, has been appointed road safety and training officer to the North Thames...

• A resilient wheel suspension system has been evolved and patented by Mr J. R. C. Moore, Theoretical and Engineering...

• British Commercial Vehicles for the World is the title of a buyers' guide just published by the Society of Motor...

• Three-day training courses to provid , transport executives with a thoroug' up-to-date appreciation of legislation are to b...

• Except for some minor changes resulting from development work since its introduction at the 1968 Show, the Unipower Invader 4...

9 The Rolls-Royce Eagle 260 turbotharged diesel has been uprated from 260 Alp to 265 bhp at 2100 rpm and is now :nown as the...

• A turbocharger designed for powers of 200 bhp to 350 bhp, known as the type 34, will be exhibited at Earls Court by Holset...

• United Body Developments Ltd announces a new range of vans under the name Eurovan. This is additional to existing products...

• A new single-shaft two-speed landing gear, known as the Mk IV automatic, will be shown at Earls Court by Intertruck Ltd,...

• Training Recommendations for Vehicle Trades Apprentices have just been published by the RTITB. Prepared ir consultation with...

• Energy seems to radiate from the compact 63-year-old frame of Mr. Alfred Ernest Higginson, newly elected national chairman of...

As chairman of the Road Haulage Association highways and traffic committee. I may perhaps be able to explain why we made a...

We wish to draw attention to the article (CM July 31) which contained certain references to the Land-Rover and its use with the...

Perhaps there is another angle to the problem of the hgv driver shortage raised by a correspondent in your August 21 issue. I...

As a coach driver. I visit almost eve seaside resort in the South of Englan invariably drivers are forbidden to s down...

y Handyman 9enchwise: lathe sense (28) LTHOUGH the ability to turn a thread in e lathe—screwcutting—is part of the )prentice...

THE TWO HIGHER-WEIGHT MODELS in the old BMC F( range—the 700 and 900 FG—are replaced today by a eerie of four medium-weight...

Reduced 'moments' could improve handling 0 PREOCCUPIED are designers and evelopment engineers, concerned with taximum-load...

Breaking down the barriers AT LEAST eight barriers had to be broken clOwn to improve the operation of public transport...

Solo or tandem • Some operators have known peak period for movement of traffic—pre-Christmas an harvest-tied collections and...

5y the Hawk • Fighting back L'alls for the return of their passenger transart undertakings to local authority control lave now...

Too many wage cooks by janus C IRCUMSTANCES ought to make it unnecessary for some time to come to have a compulsory wage...

matters by John Darker, AMBIM Containerization: long-term marketing qualms EARLIER this year the Transportation Centre at the...

by Les Oldridge AIRTE, AMIMI The carriage of animals EACH SECTION of the Road Haulage Industry has its own particular...

a Bedford RL 4 x 4 vhich was purchased from the Army and it vill soon be three years since it was first egistered. It is run on...

engine is causing probms for me, the local main Ford dealer id the field engineer for Perkins. When I bought this vehicle it...

I would like to obtain an A licence, preferably for a maximumcapacity artic, to engage in general haulage. In my traffic area...

by George Wilmot Senior Lecturer in Transport Studies, University of London. RSA diploma a more positive approach needed IT...

There are now only three weeks before the 1970 Commercial Motor Fleet Management Conference, which takes place at the London...