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M RS. CASTLE'S long-promised White Paper on transport is not an easy document to assess. t is a collection of hints and...
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THE British Railways Board is to have a klarn. cut in its investment, and the London Transport Board i2m., as a result of the...
M ORE public ownership in the bus passenger industry and subsidies for "socially essential" services are advocated by the...
A SEARCHING new look at the social and economic costs of carrying goods by road, a promise to tighten up the licensing system,...
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rates). The Government will take powers to give financial help for major capital work, including monorails, railways and...
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A T a Press conference on the White Paper on Wednesday afternoon, Mrs. Castle revealed that in the process of establishing the...
'['HE White Paper's proposals for examining carriers' licensing were welcomed by the RHA; the Association would make a...
T HE increase in the average rostered earnings of drivers and conductors under the recent bus agreement in Coventry amounted...
WITHE4 an hour of the White Paper being " published Mr. Peter Walker, shadow Transport Minister, said at Westminster: "Never...
Lt.-Col. Frank Bustard, 80 years old, is the 1965 winner of the Viva Shield presented each year by the Worshipful Company of...
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H. BRIAN COTTEE and IAIN SHERRIFF seems that British hauliers who intend making application for Road Freight !nces in Northern...
E New Botany Shed in the Port of Man chester's Bridgewater Department has been established as Britain's first operational...
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B ECAUSE of growing demand for its maintenance inspection service in the London area, the Traders Road Transport Association is...
B IRMINGHAM officers of the Transport and General Workers' Union are to continue to press local pay claims now in hand despite...
T HE reorganization of Associated Deliveries Ltd. in consequence of the formation (reported last week) of ABMAC Deliveries Ltd....
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DO not accept that this is the case," said Mrs. Barbara Castle in answer question posed by a COMMERCIAL )R representative last...
FROM OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT A DEGREE of impatience at the Government's delay in producing "integration" proposals is...
H OPE Transport Ltd. has been acquired by the Speed Freights Group, which incorporates Sayers and Shirley and Hulks Transport....
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A COMPLETELY new bus service over Harrow Hill is to be introduced by London Transport on Monday, August 8. It will be operated...
A CCIDENTS caused when passengers were alighting from or boarding buses would be entirely eliminated by the more extensive use...
T HE Minister of Transport has laid before Parliament regulations increasing speed limits for various classes of motor...
A PROPOSAL to set up an informal working group to study the technical and operating development necessary to accelerate the...
D ESPTTE difficulties in the past year, the profit (before tax) of the Maidstone and District Motor Services Ltd. has been...
Fifteen were of a design new to the company, being rear-engined with low-step, frontentrance construction. The vehicles had...
TENDERS of Strachans (Coachbuilders) Ltd. and Metropolitan-Cammell-Weymann Ltd. for 10 single-deck bus bodies each have been...
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New Sunderland single-deckers will attract public by Derek Moses first of the single-deckers designed zifically for...
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A HAULAGE contractor serving several named companies with a Contract A licence thought he was entitled to carry for any company...
A PEALS by numerous Welsh urban, rural and borough councils against decisions of the South Wales Traffic Commissioners allowing...
T HE head of a Tredegar bus firm told the South Wales Traffic Commissioners in Cardiff on Monday that he had been taking...
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Iputy LA Transport Tribunal has upheld a :ision by the Eastern deputy Licensing rity refusing to grant a variation to the held...
"I T is generally a waste of time to come to an inquiry without the necessary evidence." So says Mr. D. I. R. Muir, the...
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B ETTER weight distribution is being obtained on the vehicles they are now converting into twin-steering six-wheelers, claims...
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lanufacturers say one week is longest wait ir stock spares A. J. P. Wilding, AMIMeehE, M1RTE ST week I reported complaints by...
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Part 19—Shut-off Valves with C-type Couplings O F the many valves and units needed to operate air brakes on tractor and...
T HE two parts of the guide to 24-hour and emergency service for commercial vehicles which were printed in consecutive issues...
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Top vehicle for bigbulk distribution. With the accent on profit. York brought the frameless trailer van to Britain and blazed...
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TUST over three years ago COMMERCIAL J MOTOR published a survey of light delivery vans with body capacities of up to 200 cu....
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View BY THE HAWK Off beat TT'S not easy to lose a double-decker. Especially when it is taken off beat. as last week's news...
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mu own a commercial vehicle—or rhaps a fleet of them—you have bly arranged comprehensive in e. term "comprehensive" is...
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R EFRIGERATED vehicle design and considerations on longdistance work have already been covered in previous issues of COMMERCIAL...
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Don't Take it for Granted IN your July 15 issue, "Lorry Driver", Clapton, assumes that he is going to keep the better wages...
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COULD EXPLOIT SMOKE DEPRESSANTS ADVANTAGEOUSLY TO MODIFY COMBUSTION AND BREATHING CHARACTERISTICS LE staff of Lubrizol Great...
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to its true meaning are already arising in many quarters and not least in transport. One such basic misconception is that,...
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not if you use Conoco Conoco Dery takes the agonising suspense out of starting from cold. It keeps flowing when the others...
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good as louble drive for getting out if trouble but far cheaper! HOW IT WORKS Two rotochambers are mounted on the centre rear...
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Labour had not seen fit to include their section of the dustry within the scope of the board, despite the qualification at...
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E RRY-MOUNTED cranes have long ceased to be novelties and they become more numerous every day, although there seems to be some...
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At the huge tea-blending factory of the English and Scottish ant Co-operative Society in Leman Street, London, I was most...
It is somewhat rare nowadays to meet a factory manager who so runs transport operations "on the side". Such a man is Mr. . G....
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When 1 called at the storage and distribution depot of Allied Ironfounders Ltd. at Welwyn Garden City, transport manager Mr. W....
Much heavier lorry-mounted cranes, the Atlas 5000, capable of carrying 6 tons at short radius, have been used by George Wimpey...
It may surprise readers to know that despite the vast sales of lurid paperbacks, the Bible is still the world's best seller. At...
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By DEREK MOSES Bures independent maintains trunk service from Colchester to Bury on minimum of return M ANY country busmen,...
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THE determination of ATKINSON LORRIES (HOLDINGS) to top the previous year's results and their capacity annually so to do are...
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QOMEWHERE or other in the north of England there is bound to be at least one operator who makes it his business to carry coals...
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vREEDOM of choice is a cardinal principle underlying the use of ancillary vehicles by trade and industry. Having a need for...
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A YEAR ago I expressed anxiety that the Diploma in Road Transport. organized by the Royal Society of Arts. had an examination...