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A GOOD idea gone wrong. That is the personal view of the RHA national chairman, Mr. P. H. R. Turner, about proposals to create...
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O UT . . . the old National Council with its 100 area representatives, 22 functional group representatives and four...
BY OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT M R. WILSON has politely turned down the Road Haulage Association's request to hold top-level...
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THE Traders Road Transport Association has asked the Ministry of Health to intervene on its behalf with the Scottish Home and...
THE chairman of the Road Haulage Association's long-distance group, Mr. J. E. Kirby, has written to members reminding them of...
THE Minister of Transport has announced a further list of more than 50 new major schemes to be added to the English local...
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R OOTES reports that the majority of Commer and Dodge vehicles produced since 1957 will meet without modification the interim...
THE AEC factory at Southall has begun pilot production of a new additional engine range to meet the ever-growing demand for...
T HE specialist working group of the Inter national Organization for Standardization (180) committee dealing with freight...
Page 52
T HE Road Transport Industry Training Board is to make a random survey of present training facilities for road haulage,...
A 25 cu.yd. light alloy quadruple dropside tipping body built by Bonnallack and Sons Ltd. and operated by Marley Tiles Ltd. The...
• Mr. Stephen Swingler, Parlimentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, said that 68+ miles of motorway were due for...
'deli very vehicles—if they are satisfied that E Ministry of Transport will not hesitate red tape". This ray of hope was...
EQUIPMENT that helped to prevent jack knifing had proved effective under test conditions, said Mr. Stephen Swingler,...
PRAISE for the joint study carried out by the Ministries of Transport and Housing and Leeds City Council in the fields of...
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HIS reads like super delega tion", said the Metropolitan deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. C. J. Macdonald, when referring to...
BRITISH Railways Board Scottish Region has an application pending to vary ha A licence. The effect of the variation, if...
chief witness of an old-established FE Oldham excursion and tours operator told the North-Western Traffic Commissioners in...
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assisted by Clayton Dewandre every time they apply their power brakes When you're recognised as the leading manufacturer of...
Page 59
THE hours spent at the wheel by a lorry driver and a Monte Carlo Rally driver were compared at Helston-Kerrier Magistrates'...
THE Transport Tribunal in London last week reserved its decision on an appeal by Mr. Tom Thresh, of St. Michael's Close,...
Page 60
THE maximum weight regulations in force in the Republic of Ireland since 1963 provide that the gross laden weight of a lorry...
WAINFLEET haulier Joseph Stapleton was " last week fined a total of £2,550 after he had written to the North Holland...
Page 61
erection of two new garages and the conversion of an existing garage at Meadow Road, Derby, into an area workshop mark the...
By Derek Moses gUNDERLAND Corporation Transport converts its town centre-Grindon bus service to one-man operation this month,...
S ALES of the new AEC Swift rear-underfloor engined bus chassis now exceed 400. Latest orders include 20 for Cardiff City...
ANOTHER municipal bus operator to switch to Bristol single-decker buses is Reading Corporation Transport which has ordered 14...
Page 62
T HE first buses from Bristol Commercial Vehicles Ltd. to enter non-THC service since about 1950 are being delivered to...
A£300 ,000 EXTENSION to the Annandale Street central garage of Edinburgh City Transport has increased its capacity to 242...
WESTERN Welsh Omnibus Co. Ltd. was " facing a "very difficult situation", Mr. A. F. R. Carling, chairman, told 50 of the...
Page 63
A SPECIAL meeting of Sunderland Corpora tion transport committee was called on Monday to consider action following the report...
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A S reported briefly in last week's issue the Wickham-Poole range of articulated transport equipment initially designed for...
AN increase in the operating range of a CV battery-electric delivery vehicle weighing 3,600 lb. from 20/30 miles to 100/150...
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NEW heavy-duty Telelever tipping gear specifically designed for narrow-framed Continental chassis has been developed by...
T HE traffic warden and his kerbside charge, the meter, have almost ceased to be either news or joke material. He is now...
T HESE comments come from CAV Ltd. on a Reader's Idea (CM December 16) concerning settings of the BCK cut-out on the CAV 210...
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and publications • • • • • • 1111 le • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Hazard warning...
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O NE hears a lot about proposed developments of rapid transport systems for some British cities and, in particular, Manchester....
T HE Institute of Transport, moving towards the completion of a half-century's service to its members, was taking a close look...
T HE ease with which a 17-year-old office girl demonstrated D. H. Morgan's 16-ton front-loading low-loader, (CM last week)...
T HE intimation by the unions at last week's meeting of the National Negotiating Committee for the haulage industry that a pay...
T HE TGWU is sometimes thought to be a monolithic body with a one-track mind on policy matters. In fact, of course, its senior...
M ANY drivers, no doubt, are quite happy to earn a living pottering up and down the Ml. But I'm sure at least two of the...
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THE NEED THE WILL THE METHOD By N. R. Wynn, vice-chairman, Road Haulage Association I T is the policy of the Road Haulage...
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NV7 ULD it be an exaggeration to say that 15 per cent of all ipper operations concerned the moving of plain muck? Certainly if...
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E QLTITY shares in the United Kingdom are valued on the rate of dividend to a greater extent than in probably any other...
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ahea(1 are constructed. Rates are designed for each specific job and the attendant circumstances of the iob are the author...
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NV T seems of crucial importance to one generation may I A b l e almost completely ignored by the next. In a recent BBC talk...
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TN March 1964, Mr. Tudor Griffiths, of the 1 Ellesmere Sand and Gravel Co. Ltd., Shropshire, won the contract to supply sand...
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I T'S all very interesting, but it doesn't affect me." This reaction to the new braking and plating regulations is still...
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of 15 tons (33,600 lb.), these will have a kerb weight of, say, 12,500 lb. and thus a payload of 21,100 lb. (9.42 tons). He...
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S OME nine months ago at our subarea meeting of the Road Haulage Association, it was brought to my attention by certain...
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W HEN estimating most types of commercial vehicle operation, allowance must inevitably be made for variations in conditions...
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ber 30, a report that the Bus Fuel Grants Bill, allowing operators to recover the extra tax on ,ruel they have been paying...
A We presume you are referring to the Toyota Land Cruiser. The concessionaire for Toyota cars, Motor Imports Co. Ltd., 7...
A A popular illustrated booklet, currently being reprinted by HM Stationery Office sets out the principles which should be...
an overhead camshaft. Why are these features not incorporated in diesel engines? A A hemispherical combustion chamber is of...
A Yes. The minutes of evidence of the Transport and General Workers' Union to the Royal Commission on Trade Unions and...
A From the Electric Vehicle Association, s-- "' Trafalgar Buildings, 1 Charing Cross, London SVV1 which is concerned with the...
A Section 69 of the Road Traffic Act 1960 lays down the number of trailers which may be drawn by different types of vehicle....
A A new highway grant system is being put into effect by the Ministry of Transport to simplify the system of highway grants to...
Scammell Townsman and Scarab MH? I have been told they are classified as rigid vehicles although there is a definite means of...
can one obtain a breakdown of such figures relative to the type of operation? A The Board of Trade publishes through HM...
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B ASED on time spent and attention given in the schemes of study, the law of inland transport is one of the most important...