What a coup it would be for the British motor industry if one or both of the UK contenders secured a substantial part of the...

from a special correspondent • Research programmes with far-reaching potential for the road transport industry lie behind the...

• Mr S. J. B. Skyrme, executive director (manpower) of the National Bus Company, is to succeed Mr T. W. H. Gailey as chief...

by Derek Moses • An Anglo-American alliance between the truck and bus division of British Leyland and American Motors is being...

This now semi-trailer-model DS -32/F2E — from Crane Fruehauf has been designed to meet needs for a large capacity vehicle...

• Brighton Corporation Transport was severely reprimanded by the South Eastern Traffic Commissioners when their decision on...

The National Bus Company is to get a £7m Government grant for 1972 and the British Railways Board £27m. Announcing this in the...

DoE issues draft regs on lorry weights • When new weights and axle spacings are permitted for goods vehicles in the UK —...

• In addition to hgv driver training courses approved by the RTITB, J. Coates and Co, of Anstey, Leics, provides...

D Especially topical, in view of mounting nterest in Common Market and Channel .unnel prospects, is a new report by the British...

;ompetition will, for 1972, be "The orry — what alternative?" The first prize s a gold medal and £52.50; second, £31.50; hird,...

• With 29 member companies employing 544 personnel and operating 410 vehicles, the Wiltshire Transport Training Association was...

• Crane Western Finance Ltd has introduced two information folders providing a guide to the company's instalment credit and...

Nene Parade, Wisbech, Cambs, Seadyke Freight Systems Ltd announces that as from January 1 the trailer division will be...

and other retail outlets — is to open its 14th depot on January 3 at the Ronald Lyon Industrial Estate. Hartspring Lane....

• "Basic safety training in vehicle repair premises", a manual issued by the Road Transport Industry Training Board, seeks to...

• Lep Travel, a member of the Lep Group. is offering special inclusive travel and accommodation terms for businessmen...

• The Rumanian company Industrialiport, of Bucharest, has signed an agreement to manufacture high-powered diesel engines under...

• At Regent Road, Bootle, Liverpool (05-1922 6461), a new repair, maintenance and service depot is being opened on January 3 by...

• Described as a step towards reducing urban pollution by exhaust fumes, Tokyo's municipal transport undertaking plans to put...

• Dumfries and Galloway branch of RHA is to protest to the Government about the unfair competition from Ulster-based firms. The...

• Computers in Transport Planning and Operation (Ian Allan, £3) by Anthony Wren, of Leeds University, deals with a subject of...

is assumed in the book. The first (elementary) chapter describes computers and how they are supplied with data, and the second...

• Basic information on virtually every aspect of automotive engineering is contained in the 700 pages of Motor Vehicle...

well as more advanced aspects of petrol—engine design and construction, lubrication and cooling systems and engine testing....

• Bowes Egan has written a number of' successful books on the impact of new law on commerce; one was on the Trade Descriptions...

take great care that junior managers and supervisors are properly instructed about the implications of Section 34 of the IR...

• Experiments with natural gas engines have shown that they produce no smell at all and a very low amount of pollutant gases....

• Tomorrow (January 1) a new company, trading as Alder Valley Services, will introduce a new fleet colour — National dark...

• Having spent some £12,000 on repairs and maintenance and a total of £32,000 on re-equipping the fleet since taking it over in...

• The postal strike in early 1971 was responsible for the failure of a Glasgow road ha Wage firm to get one of its vehicles...

• Northern Ireland Trailers Ltd, tip unit-load haulier based at Preston Docks had a general noise abatement order mad against...

• British Railways carried 480,000 Freightliner containers last year. compared with 108.500 in 1967. Freightliners Ltd paid BR...

Victor A. Rice has been appointed director of product planning and market d e velopment of the Perkins Engines Group. Mr Rice,...

Harold Nockolds, deputy chairman of IPC Transport Press Ltd, publishers of Commercial Motor, retires today (December 31). Mr...

II An improved type of outer hub cap is low being fitted as standard on York :miler axles, including those supplied by York...

D Cravens Industries Sales Ltd, Andover, s to supply 121 Taskers Formula 8 ;keletal semi-trailers to Overseas Conainers Ltd....

• Lightweight dropsides of colour-impregnated injection-moulded glassfibre are a special feature of a 40 cu yd bulk-tipper body...

by Gibb Grace • An inexpensive, reliable and remarkably accurate device for indicating axle load, which I have lately tested,...

• A dual-purpose sludge tanker /cesspit emptier has been built by Fusion Ltd, Raven shaw Lane, Solihull, Warwickshire, for...

• The biennial electrical industries' exhibition.ELECTREX will be staged next year at Earls Court from March 22 to 29. rhe...

by Gibb Grace, DAuE, CEng, MIMechE Pictures by Dick Ross UNDER the latest Construction and Use proposals the maximum permitted...

by John C. Vann Straying animals • In the past, animal owners have enjoyed many legal advantages regarding accidents and...

by Handyman Auto-electrics for the mechanic (2) RESISTING the temptation to delve into electrical theory — still being...

Designed with a close eye on environmental demands, a new small diesel engine to be announced next week will be re considerable...

by Trevor Longcroft THE Ascough Clubman 19-seat luxury rninicoach — seen by many people at the Scottish Show this year — is...

view by the Hawk • Tunnel arithmetic How about some maths to bring you sharply out of the Christmas haze? Dick Marsh's...

Living with the unions WHILE OPERATORS are absorbing the decision by the Road Haulage Wages Council earlier this month, they...

Peter Thompson • A new year, a new job, a new home. Such is the fortune of Peter A. Thompson who on Monday morning moves into...

DISTRIBUTION . 7 by Alan Bunting, MIMechE This week: the equipment produced by the Ronway Engineering Co Ltd, Manor Works,...

Competition and owner drivers • In the economic struggle between large firms and the very small, the owner-driver undoubtedly...

we have it in mind to appoint a person to be responsible for the personnel function. He would be responsible for preliminary...

CM Oct 29) what is the position for a person whose normal work does not involve any kind of vehicle but who wishes to...

published a letter headed "Deskbound hgv licence". Your correspondent was getting all steamed up, claiming that every mechanic...

and fuel into tour old and rather small premises by the large tankers currently in use. We are told that there are certain...

matters By John Da rker AM B M The Industrial Relations Act 10, the implications of registration The opposition of the...

by Les Oldridge, AMIRTE, MIMI The Construction and Use Regulations (1) SO FAR AS the fleet engineer or transport manager is...

Examples of progressive thinking (2) THE CRITICISM often made that the indifferent organization of courses by technical...