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A TTENTION has once again been focused on the uses of aluminium alloys in the road transport sphere, this time through the...
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Lend Me a Tenner T HE sad tale of a lorry driver who could not afford to go bankrupt came to light at Redditch County Court...
A L ERT, bright-eyed, happyâthat is how I saw Geoffrey Page when I met him in his comfortable office at Lyons' Cadby Hall....
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From Our Industrial Correspondent T HE pattern of pay increases for Britain's bus industry was set at nine-hour talks at...
A WARNING was given to the Road Haulage Association by Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, the Northern Licensing Authority, in Carlisle last...
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nESPITE an amendment to the pro1 --/ posed normal user which restricted the use of vehicles they wished to operate under B...
the growing practice by drivers of signalling by means of flashing headlamps and taillights may become a source of danger. Road...
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Mr. L. F. Voisey has joined The A.P.V. Co., Ltd., Crawley, Sussex, as sales engineer responsible for transport tank sales. Mr....
( - NNE of the pioneers of the British A../ transport industry, Mr. C. B. Nixon, has retired from the board of Leyland Motors,...
A PARTY of 17 Scottish businessmen connected closely with heavy haulage, flew to Amsterdam last Friday to visit the Dutch...
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THE Transport Tribunal sitting in I London on Tuesday said that suspension was a sufficient penalty for hauliers who were...
A N application by the Eastern National Omnibus Company to obtain licences previously held by Wright Brothers. of Harlow, who...
T HE possibility of fast-moving Hovercraft services is envisaged by Southdown Motor Services, Ltd., as an alternative to their...
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QPEAKING at the annual dinner of the Cardiff Chamber of Commerce last Friday (at which Dr. Richard Beeching, B.T.C. chairman,...
M R. S. J. LAMBORN, Deputy President of the Traders Road Transport Association, speaking at the annual dinner of the T.R.T.A.'s...
T HE publication of objectors' names in the Northern Traffic Area Applications and Decisions, a practice discontinued in...
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A POWERFUL plea to the Chancellor 11 of the Exchequer to lighten the burden of fuel oil duties as a first step to their...
rONCERN at what was happening to Government payments for lime haulage was expressed at Carlisle last week by the Northern...
No Fundamental Change in Transport Likely FROM OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT iT is generally accepted that the British _talks...
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rear axle fitted on Austin and TMorris WE K60 3-ton, normalcontrol chassis has been changed. The new unit has a pressed-steel...
TN addition to the new heavy-goods models described on pages 155-159, Commer Cars, Ltd., announce today that the Perkins 4.203...
A NEW torque converter three-speed I -1 transmission, which is suitable for shovel loaders and so on, based on industrial...
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GLASGOW'S electric Blue Trains clipped 5 million passengers off Glasgow Corporation's business from June to the end of...
O TJTPUT of commercial vehicles for the year 1961 reached a record figure of 460,167. The tdtal number of commercial vehicles...
T HE directors of AB Volvo, of Gothenburg, Sweden's biggest automobile manufacturers, propose to increase their share capital...
A SCHEME for the bulk. collection, of milk from farms began in the Longtown area of Cumberland yesterday, Ten producers are...
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DUBLISHED last week by the Book I and Directory Division of Temple Press Ltd. was the 1962 edition of "Who's Who in the Motor...
note is being drawn up by a working party of the International Road Transport Union (1.R.U.) an which the Road Haulage...
A FTER the Northern Licensing Authority, Mr. I. A. T. Hanlon, had commented on the difficulties of resisting illegal...
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FROM OUR PARLIAMENTARY CORRESPONDENT HE Government is to look again at a section of the Transport Bill which, as I. it stands...
TH E application by Jones Transport Services (Liverpool), Ltd., for a switch from contract to ordinary A licence in respect of...
CEARS that the Government's pro1 posals for reorganizing local authorities in London would not solve the capital's traffic...
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E ARLY in the spring, before the swallow dares, there is invariably a crop of memoranda and deputations to the Chancellor of...
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Rootes Group Enters Heavy-vehicle Field With an 8-ton Forward-control Goods Chassis: New Cab Available on this, a New 71-ton...
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71-1on 9-ft. 7-in.-wheelbase petrol-engined chassisscuttle, £1,069; chassis-cab, £1,174; 6-cu.-yd. tipper, £1,416....
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T WO weeks ago it was my privilege to test one of the first production examples of the new Commer 12-ton-gross four-wheeler...
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FIT "IIEAVY" ew DAF Heavy-goods Design is Hit f 45th Dutch Show : British Manuacturers Well Represented : B.M.C. - 2ross...
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in Road Transport QMMENTING on the contrast between the early use of aluminium cars and its first appearance on corn rcial...
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THE big contract " switch " trend continues in all areas with the exception (this week only) of the Eastern area. East Midland...
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TE TS have now been carried out on a S hydraulic nut splitter recently introduced by J. W. Pickavant and Co.. Ltd., Bow Street....
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Waving Consulted "The Commercial Motor" Tables of Operating Costs, Readers Request Comment on Their Specific Costing Problems...
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A PETROL-INJECTION system in tA which a pressurized fuel supply is admitted by electrically operated valves is shown in patent...