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2nd November 1962
2nd November 1962
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The Challenge

D R. BEECHING has thrown down the gauntlet. In the second of British Railways' traffic duties (see page 7 of this issue), he...

NEWS DIGEST

The Council of the European Economic Community this week discussed the proposed action programme for implementing a common...

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E.E.C. Licensing To Start Next Year

FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT TRANSPORT ministers of the six I Common Market countries, at a twoday meeting in Brussels this...

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Haulier's Appeal Allowed in High Court

T HE Queen's Bench Divisional Court on Monday allowed with costs an appeal by George Curtis (Hauliers) Ltd., Haymoor Road, Pa...

Employers Warned About Records Defence

A NOTE of caution to employers over the operation of the " disqualification " section of the new Road Traffic Act was sounded...

Tunnel Report Soon

T HE chairman of the Channel Tunnel Company, Mr, Leo d'Erlanger, early this week forecast that the report of the Anglo-French...

Roofracks Again T HE appeal of Flower Freight Ltd., was again

heard by the Appeal Court on Wednesday. Mentioned briefly in Licensing Casebook, on page 50 of this issue, a full report of the...

New Chief Executive T HE Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders

Ltd., has announced that Mr. J. Beswick will be joining the Society as chief executive on January 1, 1963. Mr. Beswick, who has...

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Operator Bought Forged Disc But Gets Licence

A FTER hearing how an operator had purchased a forged licence and operated a vehicle under it, the Metropolitan Licensing...

Two Replace One Old Double-decker

rOLLOWING proposals for the closure of the "Gorton Tank" (railway) works, a number of the employees joined the staff. of...

Uneconomical Bus Service Withdrawn O DMAM MOTOR SERVICES LTD. is losing

2d. a mile on its bus . service between Odiham and Basingstoke, • South Eastern Traffic Commissioners were told last week,...

Union Cartage Base _ Change . Fails

A N attempt by a large London haulage company to regularize its operations in the East Midlands Area failed at Nottin am last...

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Goods-carrying Small Buses A difficult Subject

'THREE cases concerning small buses have been very much in the news in the L past two weeks. Taking them in order of...

No Right of Appeal Against These Deletions

TILE licensing pages of this journal -L have recently carried more cases than usual of revocations and deletions of vehicles...

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Many Contract Switches

Contract A to A lic.: Scottish (South): M. Kennedy, ,Glasgow; David Zavaroni, Glasgow. West Midland: H. J. Gough and Sons,...

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Bus Pay Claims On Way • A NEW claim on behalf of

100,000 men and women in private company and B.T.C.-controlled bus undertakings is on its way to the National Council for the...

Latest L.T.E. Offer Turned Down

L ONDON TRANSPORT'S Routemaster troubles are not yet over. Despite the recommendation of their own leaders, a delegate...

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U.T.A. Face Deficit— Despite Fares Rise

THE Northern Ireland Transport Tribunal, which last week confirmed the U.T.A.'s increased fares and charges, was told by Mr,...

London Transport Safety Awards 1VIORE than 12,000 London Transport 1 V-1.

drivers and over 12,000 conductors qualified in 1961 for awards made by the Road Operators' Safety Council. Awards to drivers...

Light Alloy Engine For Reliant Van

T HE engine and gearbox developed for the new Reliant Regal 3/25 threewheeled car are to be used in the Reliant 5-cwt. van....

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Dyson Range Of ' Gooseneck Semis

Pl. A COMPLETELY new range of heavyduty folding gooseneck semi-trailers is now offered by R. A. Dyson and Co. Ltd. Folding...

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Scammell's Latest Built of Light Alloy .

THE latest Scammell frameless t a nker . semi-trailer is built of . aluminiurn alloy and has a . payload capacity of' 3,665...

Production and Export Figures

DRODUCTION and export fi g ures for g oods and public service vehicles have been issued by the Board of Trade and are as...

Obituary

[WE re g ret to record the deaths of Mr. vV A. Henderson, Mr. P. M. J. O'Sullivan, Mr. D. Galla g her and Mr. G. Read, Mr....

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Bird's Eye View

T HE first shock of British commercial vehicles being freely 'sold within the Common Market, should Britain join, will be...

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BUYERS' GUIDE TO COACH BODYWORK

A NOTHER " first " is established by The Commercial Motor in presenting a detailed survey of the wide range of standardized...

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A DIESEL COACH FOR ME

I T is easy these days to think of the diesel engine as being virtually the sole form of motive power in all types of...

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SLIGHT DROP

L AST year's small increase in the total strength of municipal bus and trolleybus fleets in Great Britain and Northern Ireland...

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Standardization and Central Control for Eastwoods Fleet

S TANDARDIZATION is the keynote in the operation of the Eastwoods Ltd. group of companies' large transport fleet which annually...

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Change of Name

S OMETIMES, at least, notice is taken of what I say, and usually in circumstances when such an effect is not expected. Not long...

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A CCESS to premises, profits, Common Market removals and 1963 rating

valuation were some of the subjects discussed at the autumn conference of the National Association of Furniture Warehousemen...

Removers Discuss Practical Problems

This subject was discussed at the Folkestone Conference in May and it was on the basis of suggestions then made that Mr....

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NEW SEMI-TRAILER SERIES BY YORK

A NEW series of single-axle 12 ton r-1 NEW semi-trailers has been introduced by the York Trailer Co. Ltd. There are two basic...

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When Statistics are Misleading

T HE Annual Reports of the Traffic Commissioners for the year ending March 31, 1962, record a total of 5,249 passenger...