E haulage and passenger transport industries must be very careful that their shocked reactions to the levy proposed by the...

Pr Road Haulage Association is o ask the Ministry of Transport to permit the overall length of articulated vehicles to be...

A TRIANGLE brake tester is now in action at Smiths Motors, Goodmayes, Ilford, to give Ilford and Romford fleet operators a...

A fire thought to have been caused by intruders last week caused an estimated £5.000 damage to the offices of McVeigh Transport...

BY IAIN SHERRIFF FILE effect of the unofficial stoppage of ntightliner traffic through London (see page 30) has been felt in...

APORTABLE weighing machine that can be used to record wheel loads up to 8 tons was demonstrated this week. It is claimed to be...

Turn that lorry round ! L are trying to discourage transport users from using our vehicles as mobile warehouses," said Mr. P....

VHS is one question CM seeks to answer in a special IMPORTED VEHICLES NUMBER next week. By talking to the operators...

B ERIC Ltd., through its subsidiary St. Albans Sand and Gravel Co. Ltd., has acquired the haulage contracting business of...

Southern may provide roll-on Eire Continent ferry service BY H. BRIAN COTTEE A DIRECT roll-on/roll-off ferry link next summer...

By a Special Correspondent T HE GROWTH of air-road container and pallet traffic—soon to be amplified by giant cargo planes—is...

Crowthorne, Berkshire, were opened officially by Mrs. Barbara Castle on Tuesday. And to mark the occasion open days were held...

HOURS DELIVERY EXPERIMENT By JOHN DARKER A NEW initiative by the GLC's Transport Co-ordination Council for Landon is likely to...

TU NSPORT Development Group Ltd. de an offer on May 26 to acquire the whole of the 69,786 Ordinary shares of 15s. each of The...

D IRE warnings about the effect the National Freight Organization would have on British Railways were voiced during this week's...

this C-licensee needed M ETROPOLITAN LA Mr. D. I. R. Muir warned two Clicensees on Wednesday that he could have imposed...

PAPER chair and a clothes drier were exhibits produced by Mr. G. A. Evans, a director of Inter-Continental Transport Co....

TWO VEHICLES were granted on B licence by Metropolitan LA Mr. D. I. R. Muir in London on Wednesday to J. A. M. Davies, St....

FURNITURE van which was reconstructed so that its tailboad could be let down and used to carry furniture, was being used...

C UMBERLAND Motor Services Ltd., of Whitehaven, were last week granted fares increases by the Northern Traffic Commissioners...

T HE danger of signing an agreement to sell a haulage business without carefully reading it first was stressed last week by...

essence of all successful haulage applications is conclusive proof of need. It matters not that there are no objectors; the LA...

The North West Passenger Transport Co-ordinating Committee is setting up groups in six areas not covered by the two major...

RE VISED timetables are to be introduced by the three operators providing the Brighton area transport services to meet the...

VDINBURGH Council last week voted to apply for an increase in bus fares— despite a warning from a councillor that "municipal...

Dennis Brothers Ltd., of Guildford, has appointed director and general manager Brian G. Stacey as managing director. From 1959...

UXPERIMENTS aimed at improving JI-Li Newcastle upon Tyne Corporation bus services to attract more passengers are to be put into...

RECEIVE a training grant, a firm must be registered with the RTITB and must have paid all due levies. Any off-the-job training...

BY JOHN CULLEN NEW name was added to the list of trailer-makers last week when Arrow Construction Equipment Ltd., of Blyth,...

INCREASES in payload up to 31tons are Iclaimed by International Nickel Ltd., Thames House, Millbank, London SW!, by the use of...

T HE most difficult task for a maintenance engineer is caring for a vehicle within a year or so of its retirement. The vehicle...

INTRODUCED by Gray-Campling Ltd. .1 is a device for safe and precise tilting, levelling and positioning of heavy awkward loads....

A CAR transporter flat designed to take PI full advantage of the carrying capacity of container ships—by filling the available...

0 new ranges of battery-electric heavy-duty platform trucks of the lowlift elevating type are announced by Wessex Industries...

D ESIGNED to handle drums with diameters between 1 ft. 6 in. and 2 ft. having a weight up to 5 cwt., a new drum carrier...

W TH an inner collapsible band and an ater band to which a tensioning screw is fitted, a new type of Noridex highpressure hose...

riLAIMED to be four times more efficient than conventional coolers, two ranges of water-cooled oil-coolers introduced by Serck...

View BY THE HAWK Le (Ugh!) Caff S EE what the French tell British drivers about France's roadside cafes—and ours—in the...

BY P. A. C. BROCKINGTON, AM1MechE T HE new LH single-deck chassis announced this week by British Commercial Vehicles Ltd.,...

OURTEEN out of 18 competitors in " class H of the Northampton LDOY eliminating round on Sunday failed the bay test-they Were...

TIC rained on Sunday, June 25 1967. A 1 light drizzle at 12.30 p.m. developed into a downpour by 2.30 and then exploded into a...

ALTHOUGH at 86 the number of entrants ri in York LDOY competition round was slightly less than last year's, a very wide spread...

y ESTE RDAY the Traders Road Transport Association held a conference at London's Hilton Hotel dealing with the new vehicle...

MR. .1. E. FARLEY presented the first paper in this section of the proceedings and confined his remarks to vehicles over 12...

THE SIMILARITY of views expressed by Mr. George Wilmct (Common Room, June 9) and the then president (E. B. H. Elsbury) in his...

I SHOWED the illustration (CM, April 7) of a fire at the Esso fuel installation at Heathrow Airport to the plant superintendent...

p ERHAPS on account of the considerable financial, commercial and international commitments the proposals for extending the use...

National Freight Organization coupled with possible inter-working of nationalized parcels undertakings, could you confirm...

Zealand with a view to operating in the haulage business. Could you recommend road transport journals available in that...

made as to occupations found in several industries, including road transport? A This problem will inevitably arise as more and...

A The road test of the Bedford HA van was ^ published in our issue of August 21 1964. Fuel consumption figures at 6 cwt....

gears sometimes has a tendency to overtake the other ram and thus to cause distortion of the body. Can you suggest a cause? A...

vehicle if I am not necessarily intending to take a job driving one? A While some p.s.v. operators provide in struction for...

A it is possible that it will be developed in city transport systems of the future, as it is conducive to automatic...

A Two major factors are relative to deter" mining the size of a training board: the number of establishments in the particular...

Despite differing views as to its ultimate value, closer working of all authorities concerned with public transport is being...

by George Wilmot Better prospects for day release courses may be on way E need for day release courses in transport studies...

Fraser Westfield shareholders take a cut D ISAPPOINTING news for the shareholders of Fraser Westfield Motor Group—for the year...