T rTHERE are still far too few professional transport 1 men in local government circles. For a field which normally sets great...

N . interim Road Transport Industry Training Board levy of 0.5 per cent of a firm's payroll by the end of the year was forecast...

By IA/IV SHERRIFF TOWNSEND Ferries Ltd. augments its I existing fleet of three vessels at the end of July when the Royal...

D ELEGATES from all parts of the world attended the eighth technical conference of the International Cargo Handling...

FIVE - YEAR contract worth ffm. was signed this week between British Railways and William Donald and Son Ltd., of Aberdeen,...

B y lain Sherriff F we had "rigged" the LDOY results at the Edinburgh round last Sunday they could we have been more...

F IVE 32-ton-gross spirit/kerosene tankers measuring 40ft. 3in. long and 10ft. 10in, high have been ordered by Shell-Mex and...

J T'S time for reflection.. .. " Time to look back on 12 months of road tests and to make comparisons. Which is exactly what...

CINE million packets of crisps can be handled by 12 York Freightmaster trailer vans introduced by the Golden Wonder Crisp Co....

R OAD haulage holds the key to better and more economic freight services in the Highlands of Scotland—but already the industry...

A NEW company, Stockport Lorry Parks Ltd., has been formed by RHA members in Manchester. Its secretary is Mr. W. H. Farnorth,...

SECTION II of IRU has agreed that the TIR should be made available to containers travelling road/sea/road from Great Britain to...

POLICE CONSTABLE N. Routledge told Perth magistrates that a load of hay on a lorry was distributed in such a way that danger...

HE THEME of Efficiency in Transport chosen for COMMERCIAL MOTOR'S Fleet Management Conference in Harrogate I on September 21...

B LENCOWE Lime Co. Ltd., Penrith, was granted 15 new B licences in Carlisle on Tuesday for tippers to carry concrete products...

RE was no reason why the vehicles of a parent company should not carry traffic of r associated businesses within limits, even...

AT the end of a resumed hearing in Shef field last week the deputy Yorkshire LA, Mr. A. Gosnay, refused to allow five vehicles...

M PIERRE GOLIEZ, director • general of the company, came from Paris to support an application by Cawthorn and Sinclair (France)...

G. HOWLETT AND SON (QUORN) last week asked the East Midland Traffic Commissioners to vary the times of a bus on its...

AN application by Bullens Organization Ltd. to consolidate on renewal two A licences covering 41 vehicles and a B licence...

AN application by Midland Red to "marry" "two services on its Leicester to Branstone routes, and to reduce their frequency, was...

THE MINISTER of Transport has turned down an appeal by Wallace Arnold Tours Ltd., Leeds, against a decision of the Traffic C...

A MINISTRY probe instigated by Northern LA Mr. John Hanlon has begun into hauliers' complaints that six Cumberland weighbridges...

But what exactly IS an 'operating centre'? B RITISH Railways, like the British Government, have discovered that it is easier...

of Transport Authorities' By Derek Moses A N admission that the passenger transport industry failed to get its message over to...

A FLEET of 23 Seddon Pennine buses is being built for the Corporation of Hamilton, Bermuda. The chassis is the Mk III 13 ft....

rri E Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners at Leeds last week adjourned an application for a i fares increase by Yorkshire Woollen...

DESPITE banner-waving pickets demonstrating outside the courts in Carlisle on Wednesday morning, the Northern Traffic...

W. ALEXANDER AND SONS was last week. in Glasgow granted permission by the Scottish Traffic Commissioners to improve its holiday...

LIVERPOOL Chamber of Commerce air transport committee is to ask the Ribble and Crosville bus companies if they are interested...

THE 23rd annual conference of the Public Transport Association will be held in Harrogate on May 21-23, 1968.

THE Western National Omnibus Co. Ltd. and the Southern National have undertaken to reduce fares on a selected route in an...

NCREASED bus fares and poor service were forcing people to buy cars, declared Mr. John Rumble at Devizes (Wilts.) Trades...

OACH tours are now worth £2m. a year to the Scottish tourist trade, according to a survey conducted by the Scottish Tourist...

Overseas Ltd., a subsidiary of United Transport Co. Ltd., in succession to John H. Watts who remains on the board in the...

Y ET another application for the versatile Mercedes-Benz Unimog range was demonstrated on the site of the new St. Paul's School...

A THOUSAND mail vans like this are being built for the Swedish Post Office by the Swedish company Kalmar Verkstads Ab. They...

New bulk refuse' compaction trailer T TIRE largest bulk refuse compaction trailer in Britain will be shown publicly for the...

POLES PICK PERKINS POLISH-MADE buses and lorries shown at the International Poznan Fair in July will be powered by Perkins...

By John Darker ft Container brochure British Rail and the Marine Container Revolution stresses that containerization will...

C OMMER 8-tonner models converted to twin steer chassis by Primrose Third Axle Co. Ltd. are now being plated for 18 tons gross...

THE SMMT has extended its proposed scheme for the ready identification of matched tractive units and semi-trailers, The...

PRODUCTION of commercial vehicles averaged 8,162 a week in April, almost 10 per cent lower than in April 1966. Allowing for...

TITTLE mention has really been made of 1–d the application of labour to the changing pattern of the maintenance and repair...

VICKERS-ARMSTRONGS ONIONS, Bilston, built up its rate of all-wheel-drive vehicle conversions during the first nine months of...

operating organizations is really the result of escapism, the wish to avoid the politically unpopular action of controlling the...

A LARGER version of the Hardwood water trap made by Plough (Contracts) Ltd. is now available, specially designed for diesel...

° ERATING on the air-over-hydraulic principle, a powered landing gear known as Power Gear has been developed by Highway...

DETAINING 10W/30 grade and replacing 10W/40 with Havoline 10W/50 oil, Regent Oil claims to have a full range of multigrade oils...

AMONG the many items of tyre servicing I - 1 equipment distributed by Grantham Machinery Co. Ltd. is an electro-hydraulic jack...

v levy BY THE HAWK Working Showpiece B ACK went the clock at a spankin g trot in Leeds when thi s newly built horse-drawn...

ALTHOUGH there are unlikely to be any ri signs of a revolution in public cleansing at the IPC Conference in Blackpool next...

Reflections on the Mechanical Handling Exhibition by John Darker, AMBIN T HE Paris Mechanical Handling exhibition last week...

W HETHER Dick Turpin and Claud Duval were held in esteem in their lifetime is not certain. Since their death they have become...

N O fewer than 14 Electricity Boards in addition to the GPO and many regions of the Central Electricity Generating Board were...

T HERE was a time when fire brigade duties were confined almost entirely to fire-fighting. This, of course, is still the...

1111 THE SEGAS SYSTEM T HE South Eastern Gas Board operates a fleet of more than 1,400 licensed vehicles over an area of...

SHELVOKE AND DREWRY LTD. A 60 CU. YD. Pakamatic collector will be available, also 35 cu. yd. and 50 cu. yd. models in the same...

BY IAIN SHERRIFF, MITA vOLLOWING the recent swing of the political pendulum in the local authority elections there is little...

ALTHOUGH refuse collection vehicles start with something of a handicap so far as cleanliness is concerned the City of...

!4-ton-gross artic O NE of the things that caught most people in the transport industry by surprise when the latest...

How teamwork solved the task of coping with the mammonth GLC fleet R OAD transport engineers, like other normal individuals,...

A The Ministry of Transport advises that;- Unless the approach road and the roundabout itself are clear, or local conditions or...

A As from May 18 the period has now been limited to 14 days before the renewed licence is to have effect. This, incidentally,...

make the same journey to work of around 28 miles by car at considerable expense in total operating costs. As an alternative...

it be worth my while to buy and store my diesel oil in bulk? A However small the daily or weekly con sumption of fuel might...

A This federation was founded in 1948 to encourage the development and improvement of highways and highway transportation and...

A In Tables 7 and 8 of the COMMERCIAL MOTOR Tables of Operating Costs, details of the operating costs of 15 differing types of...

tipper? It is a 1964 7i-tonner with an unladen weight of 4 tons 5 cwt., 6 cu yd body, eight-stud wheels with 900 x 20 tyres and...

With the widening scope of public services must inevitably be linked greater demands for road transport in many forms. S...

rr HE desirability of combination between the various providers I of road transport education and training has been strongly...

Interim profit reflects continued progress by Dennis Bros. D ENNIS Bros. Ltd. continued to make progress during the first six...