T HIS week another major report is published on Britain's road system (see page 22); this time, through the Roads Campaign...

A FRENCH proposal that a working party should study the whole problem of increasing congestion in all the major European...

BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT A BIRMINGHAM haulage firm whose drivers had been on unofficial strike for seven weeks in connection...

INITIAL response to the maintenance inspection scheme 'which the Traders Road Transport Association put to 2,000 London-area...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT SURPRISING attack on the 20-year agreement between the British Railvs Board and Tartan Arrow...

WHILST Thomas Harrington Ltd. is V V suspending the construction of luxury passenger vehicle bodywork ("The Commercial Motor",...

T HE first public showing of a new version of the Renault Estafette high-roof van will be at the Scottish Show at Kelvin Hall....

ELEASED this week, a report by Prof. E. Victor Morgan on Britain's roads stresses that so far we have failed to meet the...

A MILK transport firm at whose premises were found a milk churn containing diesel oil and others supporting lorry chassis and...

O F 15,956 goods vehicles examined in Ministry roadside checks In September, 1,512 (or 10 per cent) received immediate...

'HE 1965 Dairy Show at Olympia, which closes tonight, has the usual lection of electric delivery vehicles for t by the milk...

1 -- X A SPECIAL study group is being organized by the Road Haulage Association, Eastern area, to visit Rotterdam on November...

T HE firm of J. E. Cartwright (Haulage) Ltd., of Selly Oak, Birmingham, has been acquired by British Road Services. The...

.V EHICLE manufacturers were still reluctant to produce a vehicle which was not "on the verge of the smoke line". Manufacturers...

A MASSIVE increase in the 9. s bads programme to 1980 could be achieved only at the expense of some other programmes—hospitals,...

THE Traders Road Transport AssociaI tion is to urge the Ministry of Transport to allow its examiners to test vehicles on...

T HE increased effort devoted to spot checks of goods vehicles did not appear yet to have brought any general improvements,...

THE Minister of Transport intends to I make payments to the London Transport Board totalling 13115m. during the remainder of...

From our Political Correspondent I EGISLATION to enforce any measure of transport co-ordination is extremely unlikely to be put...

Devizes last week, the Western Licensing Authority granted an lication by Howard Tenens Transport for the company's C licences...

A T Edinburgh on I uesday, the Transport Tribunal refused an appeal by George M. Morrison, Aberdeen, against a decision of the...

A N Edinburgh operator. Sandy Dyer (Contractors) Ltd. succeeded in an appeal to the Tribunal in Edinburgh on Wednesday against...

(IN Monday at Liverpool, the North Western Licensing Authority, Mr. C. R. Hodgson, granted an application by Union Cartage Co....

A PPLYING for the renewal of a B licence in respect of one vehicle, counsel for the applicant company, Mr. J. Edward Jones,...

A N unopposed application by G. Catchpole and Sons Ltd., Ellesmere Port, was also heard at Liverpool on Monday. This was for...

A FTER Mr. John F. Fitzgerald, a Westbury haulier, had given a "solemn undertaking" not to infringe the regulations again, the...

'cm Our Industrial Correspondent IE Ministry of Labour wasted little time in initiating attempts to break deadlock between...

By DEREK MOSES LIATS off to London - 1 ransportthey have really " got with it "! The first of a fleet of 14 new Green Line...

W HILST the number of p.s.v. operators in this country has fallen by 42 to a total of 5,224, the number of p.s.v. has remained...

Association of British Travel Agents under the title of "Operation Stabilizer" VMS contrary to public interest, stated the...

AFFIC congestion last year made it npossible for Corporation buses to . o a timetable. says Mr. Ronald Co. burgh's transport...

4 order worth £250.000 for 256 Comet single-deck bus chassis has secured from the Ceylon Transport - d by Leyland Motors Ltd....

TNTRODUCTION of a 40-hr. week-I-reduced from 42 hours—for Glasgow Corporation Transport bus crews is likely to take effect from...

HILST conjecture might be growing on the future prospects of the AEC double-decker. the Regent V sins the standard double-deck...

of Yorkshire Traction Co. Ltd., as from January I next, in succession to Mr. Norman Dean who, as previously announced, is to...

MEWS that the Simms Motor and Electronics Corp. Ltd. is to manufacture and market an American-designed petrol-injection system...

RECEDING the production of Ergomatic-cab Freightline versions of the land Badger low-weight tractive unit, land has been...

When to Quit F EW of us who have spent most of a lifetime connected with road vehicles and driving will look forward with any...

and Publications Variable-pitch Engine-cooling Fan A N interesting item dernonstraten at toe Motor Show this year has been the...

SOME OF THE INTERESTING NEW EQUIPMENT SEEN AT THE MOTOR SHOW ku ;IG the exhibits being shown for the me on this stand is a...

AND MAKE CHANGES TO OTHER MODELS A T last year's Earls Court Commercial Motor Show the Rooks Group took the important step of...

T HE main features of a new range of tandem-axle semi-trailers, announced today (Friday) by Scammell Lorries Ltd., are the use...

DEREK MOSES '112ST opportunity to see the cornlete range of 1966 Duple group nd coach bodies is at the biennial lion at the...

A N opportunity to see the full range of 1966 coach bodies from Plaxtons (Scarborough) Ltd. for Bedford chassis is at the...

I Y a coincidence Lord Hinton, the oracle that nobody had a chance of hearing, departed for his new assignment with the World...

I N recent weeks the correspondence columns of The Commercial Motor have been alive with complaints by bus enthusiasts that AEC...

'THERE was an animated discussion period following the talk given by Mr. A. J. I Crowe, of the Buliens Organization Ltd., and...

From Materials Handling to Pest Control their annual conference at Harrogate last week the National Association of arehouse...

Inadequate salesmen and disinterested management are one of the biggest problems in the commercial vehicle distributive trade....

a growing problem INCREASING SIZE OF TRANSPORT OPERATING UNITS IS MAKING GREATER DEMANDS ON LEADERSHIP LTHOUGH road...

The editor is always pleased to receive letters on all aspects of the road transport industry, Contributors must include their...

By George Wilmot Lecturer in Transport Studies, University of London REGIONAL STUDIES — The Highlands of Scotland MOUNTAINS...