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29th December 1978
29th December 1978
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Shalom Israel

ISRAEL has this year celebrated 30 years as a self-governing state. Landlocked on three sides by hostile neighbours and...

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1r Dan teps out rom NFC

7IONAL Freight Corporachairman Sir Dan Pettit is to step down from his post 41tain's nationalised hauchief after eight years at...

High Court 'yes' for Windsor cordon

BERKSHIRE County Council's experimental "Windsor Cordon" set up to keep heavy lorries out of a 40 sq mile zone around the town...

Honeymoon extension

TRANSPORT Minister William Rodgers has extended the "honeymoon" period on the 450km (281 mile) daily mileage limit until the...

Bendibus plus

THE MAN Bendibus righthand drive articulated singledecker has been so successful in trial service with National Bus's City of...

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First delivery

SCOTTISH Bus Group's Central SMT fleet has taken delivery of the first of its recently-placed order for Leyland National...

Network growth

ONE HUNDRED and fifteen miles of new motorway route and 5.5 miles of widening were under construction on December 1 in England...

Road wins

ABOUT 80 per cent of liquified petroleum gas is carried by road and about 20 per cent by rail — said Transport Minister William...

Debate needed

A GENERAL transport debate in the Commons was long overdue, declared Dudley Smith (Tory, Warwick and Leamington) last week....

Strike cost

EMERGENCY car parking arrangements were brought into force in the West Midlands last week when West Midlands PTE bus drivers...

Drivers' pay claim threatens chaos

THE THREAT of total industrial chaos was still hanging over road transport operation as CM went to press. Road tanker drivers...

Spanish permits

THE Department of Transport has announced that from January 1 1979 special Spanish permits known as "yellow cards" will be...

Hungary detours

BRITISH hauliers opera into Hungary with no signated destination are, b■ strongly advised to avoid Budapest region. Congestion...

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Freight shares

IN 1977 89 per cent of the tonnage carried by land went by road and 11 per cent by rail. John Horam, Under Secretary for...

Joint working review

THE Departments of Transport and Environment are to review their joint working arrangements. Transport Secretary William...

Renault recovery

RENAULT is to introduce a new 24-hour recovery service in Britain and on the Continent for users of all Renault commercial...

AVRO conference

THE first annual general meeting of the Association of Vehicle Recovery Operators is to be held on Saturday February 24 at 4pm....

Volvo sell more

VOLVO sales revenue during the first nine months of 1978 were up 25 per cent on the corresponding period of 1977. The...

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:ordiff haulier's iothole problems

:ARDIFF haulier whose livelihood depends on his one vehicle ..nce has had it suspended for three months by the South, Iles LA...

Driving limits

UNTIL the European Court decides about British tachograph enforcement, officers will be asked to continue to remember the...

Fuel tax lobby

UROPEAN refrigerated transport operators are campaigning or a reduction in the restrictions on their regular operations....

SHORT HAULS

Investment cash for NFC THE Government has made a £4m grant to the National Freight Corporation. This first payment had been...

Fog limits not law

THE GOVERNMENT last week turned down the idea of making it an offence to exceed the recommended speed limit on motorways during...

Improvement for A39

A 1.04km (1,140yd) stretch of the A39 Taunton-Fraddon trunk road between Welcombe Cross and Deptford is to be improved. The...

Alarming overloads

WEIGHTS checks on lorries on the M1 in Buckinghamshire have revealed an alarming number of overladen vehicles. Of 135 lorries...

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Fiat, Borg-Warner buy kit° Dutch gearboxes

BORG-WARNER Corporation and Fiat's car division have joined forces in a move to buy an interest in the Dutch firm of Van...

Improvec lubricant

A NEW lubricant wl should overcome corn:3 and jammed twistlocks been developed by Metpn LTD. The manufacturer cla that the...

Foreign ERF

SUNRIPE Fruits (PTY) Ltd, the largest distributor of fruit in South Africa, has recently taken delivery of eight ERF B-Series...

Air power for quick assembly

A new and comprehensive range of 19-air-powered tools has just been launched in Britain by Stenor, a GKN company. Shown for the...

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IBC 'guideline-breaking ores rise to go ahead

TIONAL Bus subsidiary -thern General Transport I its seven per cent fares rease application granted week, despite a claim by th...

Your wish an order

GRAND Metropolitan Hotels and Townsend Thoresen car ferries have joined forces to extend the Grand Metropolitan "Aladdin"...

;top dithering

concessions now, says Horam RILE the possibility of a national concessionary fare scheme is being looked at, district councils...

Readin g 's

bus-only link road BERKSHIRE County Council has introduced a new "selfenforced" bus-only link road in an area of new housing...

Border checks

THE BORDER Regional Council is to appoint a travelling mechanic-inspector to check the minibuses in use by contractors serving...

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Jumping the gun

A brigadier who used to exhort everyone to "do it now" had his guns spiked by a battery that he was going to inspect. As he...

Painful overload

Fines for overloading in Pennsylvania, USA, really hurt. The average excess on 147 overweight lorries stopped on the road was...

Needless tragedy

Minutes after reading of a man, who was killed while attending to a vehicle on the hard shoulder of a motorway, I picked up a...

Living it up at 81

At 81, Black Jack, a happy extrovert, is devoted to showbiz, drinks with moderation, enjoys a quiet smoke and occasionally...

Simply multiply

"Hole in one from Wilcox' the heading to a story from company about the use of aluminium tipping body to peat for new greens on...

Not what they seem

Those whose literary diet is limited to newspaper headlines liable to reach strange conclusions. A headline in the Novern issue...

Not so dusty

Your friendly dustman may not be all he seems. He may belonc Special Branch. FBI agents in New York posed as dustmen to...

Costly bob's worth

London bus fares seem positively cheap when one remembi that the fare from Paddington to the Bank by Shillibee single-deck,...

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'his Ghost will run and run

e Ghost ran for the first time >aturday," said a voice with ify concealed excitement as I the telephone receiver. It not the...

Aght Inger

Devon coach driver returg to Brixham in the small us was surprised and ininant to see his own car ng driven towards him. He jht...

ilk for he job

Government Minister has ssed the test of the Institute of Ivanced Motorists. Approiately he is Ray Carter, the mister...

Challenge to youth

BP Oil's Buildacar Competition, which is part of the company' 'challenge to youth' scheme, is to be widened to include non-oil...

Stuck for staff

Greater Glasgow Passenger Transport Executive have had to suspend ten bus services because they are short of 450 drivers and...

Mirror to history

The Bedford mirrors developments in road transport over almost half a century, for it has been involved in probably all of them...

Solecism

I am surprised to seethe National Freight Corporation falling into the trap of "hire and reward." Reward is a form of payment...

Babylon

Reporting the disappearance of hundreds of wagons in the Middle East, The Daily Telegraph said: "Rental companies and finance...

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( From the 0i - skiing prpffi e

Graham Montgomerie continues his series for engineers with further exploration of cab design. He comes down in favour...

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Donnington Park' fun for the famtil

Report and pictures by Brian Weatherlev WHEN IT comes to entertainment, The Donington Collection must surely count as a museum...

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York revive transporter

THE UK CAR transporter market is quite small — most of the units are run by little more than half a dozen operators. For them,...

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Israel's transport [weds British help

WHEN ISRAEL'S last transport minister Meir Amut resigned, it was assumed outside the country that he did so because he...

New chapter open!

in freight history WHEN Prime Minister Menachem Begin and President Anwar Sadat sign the final agreement which will bring...

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Israeli bus firm runs the gauntlet

IN DECEMBER, 194C bus passengers on the No 2 route of the Israeli bus service in Jerusalem made the shortest service run on...

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Cooperative care pays off in profits

THE BRITISH Associati Owner Drivers, which itself in such peril at th , of its first year, migl worse than study methods which...

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Kibbutz folk run own transport flee

ANY NOTION that an Israeli kibbutz is a type of Hebrew hippy commune with the inhabitants scraping an existence from the desert...

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A &Menge

ta Duo. I saw CM's Editor lain Sherriff on TV's Pebble Mill talking about tachographs with union leader Alan Law, who in 1 968...

the USA

On holiday in the USA, we several rides on the Greyhound Coaches and on Grey Line Coaches, who operate charter hire only,rather...

Hug Kettg

A photograph of a prototype Volvo Ailsa double deck bus which is on the way to Bangkok and Singapore for demonstrations prior...

...but quick tute

Bangkok Mass Transit has no experience of double-deck buses. To that Authority the physical. constraints of running such...

Tougit fat

I would like to reply to N Myers' letter "Secondhan Business (CM, December 1). He does not seem to unde stand the simple...

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ClMrs legislation round-up for 78-79

EW YEAR'S EVE — a day to look back and reflect on what a year has brought and, perhaps, to try and forecast what a New Year...