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29th December 1961
29th December 1961
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No Black Smoke

W HAT. causes lung cancer? The old controversy, in which one faction insisted that diesel fumes were the cause, seems...

The Beeching Pill

E VEN the attractions of extra pay and time-off in lieu form poor compensation for those transport workers who were called upon...

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John Ric

Tier W HAT visitors to the Bristol Royal Show s they saw an authentic Olde Englishe a moving across the show ground is not...

Bird's Eye View By The Hawk

Jaguar Corner a Bus Market T WONDER how many people in the passenger-vehicle field I realize the strong position that Jaguar...

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Fight Against Disqualification Clause to Continue

FROM OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT M OVES are being made to continue the fight against the Road Traffic Bill's "...

Not

4' Unnece s sary Obstruction I N the Queen's Bench Divisional Court last week a decision was given of interest to garage...

N.R.T.F. STATEMENT DISQUALIFICATION INSURANCE

rOMMENTING on the liki of more frequent use qualification as a penalty for when the new Road Trutt becomes law, the National...

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iring for Bus in London ?

T Industrial Correspondent Inment's decision not to have ip yet in the pay pause could )iggest dislocation of London isport...

Merchandise Discharged on Records Summons

A PPEARING at Tottenham Magistrates' Court last week for a transport firm summonsed for failing to cause a current work record...

Dery Records to be Scrapped

text Monday, January 1, it will no longer be necessary for dery records kept by dealers in dery and users of diesel-engined...

Tax Receip ▪ ts Rise, Says Report

ipts from hydrocarbon oils I the continuing increase in of road traffic during 1960-61, issioners of Customs and n their annual...

EXPORT B.M.C. 10/12-CWT. MODELS UPRATED

T`HE maximum gross vehicle weight 1 rating of all Austin 10/12-cwt. and Morris J.4 van and pick-up models intended for export...

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Men in the News Mr. H. G. White has been

appointed president of the Hanson Transport Co., of .Hamilton, Ontario, one of Canada's biggest transport cohcerns. He was...

Minimum Age Limit Imposed by Mit

-decker for B.E.A. T HE Minister of Transport, deciding an appeal by a Normanton coach operator last week, granted a road...

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?s for Records ced on Appeal

uIties of haulage companies ring that drivers kept correct re described by Mr. Ernie 7 .ssex Appeals Committee last was...

New Loading Rules for Goods Vehicles to be Considered

FROM OUR PARLIAMENTARY CORRESPONDENT "THE Government is to go into the whole question of what weights commercial I vehicles...

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"Trying to Sell a Licence Used Illegally for Two Years"

"A FLAGRANT and blatant attempt to sell a licence" was how Mr. James Amphlett, objecting for S. G. and R. D. Biss, coach...

Six Who Gave are Fined lcashire United Lose Appeal S IX

men who gave lifts to t mates have been fined it Magistrates' Court, Bristol, be accepted money or petrol. All six drove vans...

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sRDS FOR C.W.S. MEN )S from the Royal Society for

)revention of Accidents and ts from the C.W.S. have been y 597 chauffeurs and goods ivers employed in the C.W.S. artment...

Two-way Buses in One-way Streets?

B USES should be given special privileges wherever one-way streets and other traffic schemes threaten the convenience of...

U.I.T.P. CONGRESS DATE CHANGED

B ECAUSE the original dates (May 19Li 25) clash with another major conference, it has been decided to alter the 1963 Vienna...

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Bid to Regulate Transport Premises

From our Industrial Correspondent I EADERS of the T.U.C. urged the J--■ Minister of Labour, Mr. John Hare, last week to...

Municipal CniatraCtS Southgate Highways Committee recommends acceptance of the £817 tender of Rows, Ltd., for a Karrier Bantam 2-tort tipper.

Middlesex County Council Education Committee recommends the purchase of a 29-seater coach for Trent Park College for an...

Quicker Scotland -Ulster Trans'

W ITH the introduction this month of the "Caledonian Princess" into service between Stranraer and Lame, traders and hauliers...

Somerset Hauliers on Multiple Charges TW 0 haulage concerns, B. P.

and A. M. Harvey and Senator Transport, of Holcombe, Somerset, had to pay £48 in fines at Radstock last week when they pleaded...

RR. Road Service

T HEpossibility that British . might enter into direct cor with road passenger transpi stressed by the Lord Mayor of Aid. I. W....

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ate Farmers, .A. Urges

;ion of his B licence radius 0 to 25 miles was granted ish Licensing Authority, Mr. 1, at Glasgow last week to [ark, of...

Wholesale Grocers Attacked in Vehicle Delays Report

WHOLESALE grocers were attacked YV in a report on terminal delays, published just before Christmas, by Mr. A. J. Harrison, a...

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Trapped at Every Tu

Don't Forget ! Excess Fuel Device Regulations Effective on Monday From Our Legal Correspondent COMMENTARY by JANUS I T WAS...

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Planning for Commuter Passenger Traffic

TRANSPORT FACILITIES TOWN PLANNING MUS" GO HAND IN HAND T HE problems of commuter traffic in conurbations should be tackled and...

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The Editoi Recalls Outstai Events of ti Past Year

I F I had to point to a single factor that consistently stood out in road transport affairs more than any other during 1961,...

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the FUTURE

Taking a Td Look at 46 Hence T HE turn of the year is a traditional time for crystalgazing and, in a period when the railways...

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) UP FOR ECONOMY

t Shows iy while iyload : .p.g. at .h. J UST as some people will only give of their best when they are working at top...

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More Queries on "Hours

Replies to Readers' Requests Include Variations on the Interpretation of Section 73 of the Road Traffic Act, 1960 and...

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he Take-over Story Has Not Changed

week there is news of take-overs (and rumours re take-overs). There is no new trend here, of 7ake - overs might have been less...

Trolleybuses at Cardiff

nNE is accustomed, unfortunately, to seeing trolleybusek `-'scrapped for a variety of reasons which scarcely bear investigation...

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Bus Washer Improvements

A DEVICE designed particularly for cleaning the front, roof and rear of a bus forms the subject of patent No. 877,016. (R....

TEMPERATURE-CONTROLLED FAN DRIVE

A HYDRAULIC coupling for incorporation in the drive of a fan is disclosed in patent No. 876,609. Its purpose is to maintain a...