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29th October 1965
29th October 1965
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Just More Talk ?

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

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IRU Urban Congestion Study

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

Dismissals in Midland Dispute

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

Encouraging Response to TRTA Scheme

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

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Railwaymen Attack Tartan Arrow Traffic Plan

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

For Coaches Now Substitute Trucks

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

Higher Payload for Longer High-roof Van

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....

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HUGE ROAD SPENDING NEEDED, SAYS REPORT

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

Milk Transporte rs Win Appeal

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

September Prohibitions

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

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Newcomers at the Dairy Show

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

RHA Study Group in Holland

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

BRS BUY MIDLANDS CAR CARRIERS

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

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Hauliers May Seek Help In Smoke Battle

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

Roads or Hospitals —Mr. Fraser

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

Traders Support Home Testing'

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

Spot Checks to Continue

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

Big LTB Subsidy

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

Labour Will Go Slow on Co-ordination

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

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C-to-B Switch for Export Operator

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

Tribunal Refuses Morrison Appeal

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

LOWLOADER AP PEAL SUCCEEDS

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

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Union Cartage Gets Three Additional Artics

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

Wallasey Haulier's Missing Spares

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

LIVERPOOL HAULIERS ADMIT MAINTENANCE DEFICIENCIES

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

NO ACTION AFTER UNDERTAKING

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

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TTEMPT TO SOLVE !ONUS DEADLOCK

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

Yes—it Really Is a Green Line Coach

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

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Fewer Operators—Same Number of Buses

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...

PVOA Opposes ABTA Scheme A NEW policy recently announced by the

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

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linburgh Urges Ban to Ease Congestion

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

tITISH AFTER ALL

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

New Glasgow Schedules

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

Regents for South Wales

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

Mr. P. H. Wyke Smith has been appointed general manager

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

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Simms to Make and Market Petrol Injection System

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

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A 26-ton 'Interim' Badger

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

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ROAD AND WORKSHOP by HANDYMAN

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...

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NEW EQUIPMENT

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

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Eye Catchers at Earls Court

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...

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Commer Introduce 24-ton Artic

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

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New Range of Scammell semis

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

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omplete Duple Range on Show

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

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Limited Choice at Arlington Show

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

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DUMB ORACLE

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

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Road Test of AEC t/Willowbrook Service Bus

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

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Aspects of Continental Removals

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

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MK ANNUAL CONFERENCE

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

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BIRD'S EYE VIEW

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

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Leadership

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

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YOUR OPINION

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

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THE COMMON ROOM

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