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30th July 1965
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VOLUME 121 No. 312 8 JULY 30, 196

HC Purchases NYONE who feels alarmed about the announcements on the next two pages concerning the take-over of Tayforth Group...

FORTHCOMING EVENTS

SEPTEMBER 12 Lorry Driver of the Year Competition Final. 16-26 Frankfurt Motor Show. 20-24 Municipal Passenger Transport...

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Scottish Prohibitions

OADSIDE checks by 19 Ministry examiners on A7, A8 and A9 on the outskirts of Edinburgh recently, resulted in immediate...

New Liner Proposals

L EADERS DERS of the National Union of Railwaymen are to put new proposals on liner trains to the British Railways Board. The...

Buckinghamshire Corps

l'HE Chief Constable of Buckinghamshire is anxious to see established a vehicle observer corps to take action against lorry...

Closure of TIR Posts in Germany T HE following Customs offices

in the Federal Republic of Germany have now been closed to TIR traffic: Lampertehim (Frankfurt); Visselhovede (Hannover);...

IN BRIEF

New Service Centre : On August 13 the chairman of the North East Development Council is to open the new commercial vehicle...

THC Bombshells

and link with Leyland that frei HE State-owned Transport Holding Company is expected to succeed in a bid to acquire control of...

THE TAYFORTH TAKE-OVER

P E news that agreement had been reached for the Transport Holding Company to acquire a s controlling interest in Tayforth...

THC-LEYLAND SWAP

'HE agreed exchange of shares between 1 the THC and the Leyland Motor Corporation "on the basis that will lead to a development...

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ayforth Take-over Scheme

istol and ECW NO SPENDING SPREE By ALAN HAVARD, M Inst T the Leyland-AEC merger deal). Leyland has an option to extend its...

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Lorry Marshalling Yards to have Priority in London Docks Scheme

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT B ETWEEN one and two weeks could I- , be cut off the transit time taken by goods for export,...

Customs Clearance Depot at Eastleigh

INFORMAL discussions are now being I held between HM Customs and a special sub-committee of the British Shippers' Council for...

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THE GOVERNMENT APPROVES

FROM OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT T HE Tayforth and Leyland deals (as detailed on pages 20-21) have the full approval of the...

Talks on 40 m.p.h. Schedules

FROM OUR PARLIAMENTARY CORRESPONDENT T HE Minister of Labour is to discuss the operating speed of lorries with the trade...

Road Priority for Docks Traffic

TRADERS have clearly shown their preference for road transport in the carriage of export car g o to the docks, the National...

HOVER LOW-LOADER

V T1CKERS-ARMSTRONGS LTD. are now V known to be fittin g air-cushion e q uipment to a low-loader trailer for CEGB so that the...

New Tariff for BRS Parcels

B RS PARCELS have now issued their new tariff g ivin g effect to the decision, followin g consultation with the Government,...

L ivery Consultancy A NEW service, claimed to be the first of

its kind in the UK, was launched on Tuesday by the paint manufacturing company of Lewis Berger (Great Britain) Ltd. The company...

Nicholls becomes Corral!

F ROM Monday next a new fleet nameCorrall Transport Ltd.—will be seen on vehicles in London, East Anglia and South East...

TRTA Conference News

PONFIRMING arran g ements for the k--• 1966 national conference at Eastbourne on April 20-23, the Traders Road Transport...

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Road-building Setback

nUICKER hire-purchase repayments and a damper on the road building p;ogramme were among the measures announced this week by Mr....

Bus Fares Will Not be Referred to Prices Board

ISES in bus fares will not be referred to the National Board for Prices and Incomes. Economics Minister Mr. George Brown, who...

No Direction for Concessionary Fares

IVIR. FRASER does not feel that he could direct the Bristol Omnibus Co. — part of the Tilling Group—to operate...

Clear Regulations in Severn Tolls Bill

WHEN the Minister of Transport drafts VT regulations for the use of the Severn Bridge he will bear in mind requests that there...

Rural Bus Report

T HE report of the local inquiries and experiments in rural bus services — to be published early next week--shows a number of...

Praise for Disc Parking

B US companies described Cheltenham's disc parking scheme as " marvellous " and bus drivers had written to the highways...

Action on Solus Sites

" I AM satisfied that the solus system in the petrol trade as now operated is in some respects contrary to the public interest....

RHA on Geddes

THE licensing committee's views on the 1 Geddes Report were discussed by the Road Haulage Association executive committee on...

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Objectors Ask Commissioners to Grant Application

THE Eastern Traffic Commissioners, sitting in Cambridge last week, said that to prevent inconvenience to the members of the...

R. and C. Transport Appeal Dismissed by Tribunal

A N appeal by R. and C. Transport and Engineering Co. was dismissed by the Transport Tribunal in London on Tuesday. The company...

Saturation Approaching' in Ferries

THE A-variation application of East I Riding Transport Co. Ltd., of Hull was resumed at Leeds on Monday before the Yorkshire...

SHORT-TERM GRANTS 'IN PUBLIC INTEREST'

G RANTING applications for short-term B licences to sub-contractors working for G. and W. Morris Bros., Stanwell, Surrey, the...

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Revocation and Suspensions Follow W. Midland ' Blitz '

O NE haulier had a vehicle removed from his Contract A licence and six others had one vehicle suspended for up to one month...

Nothing to Carry "says LA — so No Grant

A N application by a Great Yarmouth firm to transport coloured supplements to local provincial newspapers throughout the...

TAKE-OVERS BRS Buys G. Read

TT was announced late on Wednesday that IBritish Road Services Ltd. had bought George Read (Transport) Ltd., of Mitcheldean,...

Tingeys and Selly

ffiBE removals and transport firm of -L J. Selly and Sons Ltd., established in 1863, was taken over last week by Tingeys of...

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LICENSING

CASEBOOK BY JOHN DARKER Close Customer Liaison Can Yield Dividends A T a recent public inquiry at Hanley I was interested in...

Publicity for Rates

THE spotlight directed on low quarry 1 rates in the West Country has moved to the West Midland and Northern areas. The rates...

Hauliers Need Specialized Help

THE legal profession is now engaged I in a much needed examination of its structure and practices and some progressive ideas...

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Requests in Six Areas

NORTHERN APPLICATIONS Only 21, 1965) Thistle Transport Ltd., Carlisle, A var., add 2 art. (120. delete 1 veh. (410. Lnad and...

CONTRACTIONS: add., additional; agric,, agricultural ; art., articulated unit e., ewe.; g.g., general goods: GB., Great Brirain-,

lic., iftance; tow-ldr., low.loader ; mats., materials N.U., normal user ; ST., spacial type : r, tons; T., tipper; trl.,...

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Manchester Surplus • is Down

A NET surplus of £103,828 resulting from the year ended March 31 last for Manchester Corporation Transport compared...

WESTERN SMT REPEAT FOR FLEETLINES A REPEAT order for 57 Daimler

Fleetline rear engined doubledeckers has been placed by Western SMT Co. Ltd., which is currently introducing a batch of 55...

Park Royal—Eastern Coach Works

U NDER a Leyland/Transport Holding Company share exchange scheme, Leyland Motor Corporation is to get a 25 per cent share in...

COMPANY FORCES ISSUE ON FARES A SMALL family bus company operating

in the Derbyshire Peak District has refused to increase its fares by as much as another larger company operating on the same...

Coach Ferry Fares

XTORTH SEA FERRIES LTD. have II announced the following fares list for motor coaches on their roll-on/roll-off ferry service...

IN BRIEF Three-tier Buses for Leeds: A system of "three

tier" bus travel may be introduced by Leeds City Transport. Normal stage services would be operated by rear entrance...

The official ceremony to mark the handing over of Bournemouth's

20 MCW-bodied Daimler Fleetlines took place on Friday; 10 have detachable tops and 10 fixed. These are the first Daimlers that...

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Bradford's Good Year

N ET surplus: of Bradford City Transport of LI16,832 for the year ended March 31 last was the best figure for some 30 years....

NEWS IN BRIEF

Grimsby and CIeethorpes Deficit: The financial return of the Grimsby and ace thorpes joint transport committee for the rter...

Mir. C. J. Webster has been appointed surveyor (West) designate

of British Road Services. us succeed Mr. R. W. Miller when the latter retires next August. Mr. J. W. F. Mann, building...

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Magirus Deutz for UK P

BY THE TECHNICAL EDITOR N EGOTIATIONS are, I understand, being carried on between C. L. and H. L. Blundell Ltd., of...

GM's Turbo Titan III

T HE latest in the line of American " trucks of the future" was unveiled recently by the Chevrolet Division of General Motors....

TRAILER OVERRUN ACTUATOR WITH SAFETY FEATURES

. 1– % A NEW hydraulic overrun brake actuator for trailers, developed in conjunction with the FVRDE and based on units...

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BMC and Pressed Steel

" - TN - W hoards of The British Motor Coripotation Ltd. and Pressed Steel Co. Ltd, announce that agreement has been reached in...

MATERIALS HANDLING

- pUTURE trends in materials handling equipment, the in-transit handling 'of containers and other unit loads are among the...

IN BRIEF

New Tyre Station: A new tyre station was opened last week in Kendal by Tyre Services (Carlisle) Ltd. Sited on the Mintsfeet...

ROAD AND WORKSHOP by HANDYMAN

Remember Steering Box Lubrication VERY much like a new engine, the V first-life of a steering box can he long and...

—MONEY FOR YOU ?

Have you an idea that is worth passing on to other readers ? It must relate to maintenance practice. hr a panel, on which...

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NEW EQUIPMENT

and Publications Trailer Lighting Relay Unit A TRAILER signalling and lighting relay unit designed to 1 - 3. meet the Ministry...

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An operator . fits a new tread to a giant t . nre at Dunlop's factory at Speke, Lircrpool. This 11111

Retreading Business As the quality of retreading improves, so the sale of reconditioned tyres increases steadily year by year...

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11111 Tyre Developments

Keep Pace By A. J. P. Wilding, A M I Mech E, IV1 1 R TE A STUDY of back issues of the "Tables of Operating Costs" published...

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By The Hawk

BIRD'S EYE VIEW State of the El In the House of Commons last Wednesday, Mr. Roger Gresham Cooke raised a question about the...

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Hill There is more to

CHOOSIN !YRES than simply buying a well make that fits By R. DI CATER A M Inst B E C NOOSING tyres can be a frustrating...

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11//1 TYRE FIRES —Some thoughts on their cause and the method of dealing with them

By ANTHONY L. COURT M Y experience of tyre fires over a great many years has convinced me :hat some instruction should be...

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Tyre Servicing

Equipment tyre servicing Useful aids to reviewed by Derek Moses • TOTAL of 19 manufacturing companies of tyre-servicing...

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Road Developments

D ETAILS of several important road schemes were announced on Friday, while today the Minister of Transport is due to open the...

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ACROSS THE IRISH SEA

S UPPOSING that the report of the Geddes Committee were accepted and the British licensing system abolished. Many of the...

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ADVICE ON TRANSPORT PROBLEMS

Persistence 1 Systematic tyre maintenance can save you money T YRE costs constitute an appreciable proportion of the total...

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NEW COMPANIES

R. J. Ross (Contractors) Ltd. Cap. EI,000. Objects: To acquire the business of a haulage contractor and aenetal merchant, etc,,...

THE COMMON ROOM

By George Wilmot Lecturer in Transport Studies, University of London The Difficulties of Parttime Study THE part-time nature...