T HE outspoken attack on the Transport Tribunal, and a warning that the haulier's mood is altering towardsone of wanting...

Transport Leona] rstleton HE very last man to impress one as self-complacent or burdened with a superiority complex is...

Hot War in the Cold North "E" OLLOWING the vigorous presentation of the views of the Canadian Trucking Association before the...

THE National Joint Industrial Council for the Road Passenger Transport Industry has held an inquiry into a dispute between...

THE Road Haulage Association has written to the County Councils Association regarding non-compliance by certain livestock...

Government Action FROM OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT IMPORTANT talks on the possibility of creating a new cross-Channel link are...

%YJ HEN bulk milk collection was demonstrated at the Royal Dairy Show in London last week, Mr. W. R. Trehane, chairman of the...

From our Political Correspondent M R. MARPLES' comment that he is not yet ready to pronounce on the "difficult matter" of...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT A LTHOUGH the majority of British road haulage workers have had their claim approved and can...

journal, L'Offictel des Transporteurs, of a van version of the Renault 4L car, whicht is notable for its outstanding suspension...

JO less than £86m. should be spent in the next seven years on 10 major ad schemes in South Wales. During the flowing 13 years,...

Mr. E L. Proctor has been appointed general sales manager of Oswald Tillotson, Ltd. He was formerly Manchester area manager....

DROMINENT in the Scottish Omr 1 buses Group fleet replacement pr gramme for 1962, which will involve ti expenditure of a...

TRADERS had a great deal transport problems, but there wou be more if Britain entered the Comm( Market, declared Mr. F. E....

. 1-1 . A N order for the compulsory windingup of Todd Brothers (Dinas Powis), Ltd., hauliers, of Mount Stuart Square, Cardiff,...

'HREE appeals against decisions from the North Western traffic area came up for hearing by the Transport Tribunal in London on...

Bridge is being inspected today by the Minister Transport, Mr. Ernest Marples, who be visiting both the Gloucestershire...

A N order for six A.E.C. Reliance 36t.long dual-purpose coaches has b n placed by Barton Transport, Ltd., of Chilwell, Notts....

"14Y personal view is that the pr posed new restrictions are entire unwarranted," declared Mr. J. Arnold, Assistant Heavy...

A N application by Jones Transport Services (Liverpool), Ltd., brought 115 objectors when heard at Liverpool last week. An open...

ACKING the proposal that a Merse side Traffic Authority should I formed without delay to regulate roi communications, and all...

TNLESS the road construction pro.d gramme in this country could be apidly accelerated, our roads, which vere particularly...

m R. C. J. MACDONALD, the De uty Metropolitan Licensing Autho ity, last Friday granted a B licence to In ustrial Packers...

Queen's Bench Divisional C • urt last week dismissed with costs app ications by Raymond Moscrop, driver, and his employer,...

T HE West Midland Traffic Commissioners last week granted permission to Midland Red to operate an increased number of buses on...

F OUR of London's 15 remaining trolleybus routes, including the last to serve the Holborn-Moorgate arca, are to be converted to...

T HE action of British Railways in opposing a local operator's application for facilities for football tours, while ignoring a...

DJ AND S.D.s: Burnley, CoMe and !son Joint Transport Committee has lered four Leyland Titan PD2A.27 uble-decker and six Leyland...

A N applicant who wanted to switch four contract A licensed vehicles to full ordinary A was said by the Metropolitan Licensing...

A B-LICENSED operator who had held a carrier's licence since 1933. obtained a new one in London on Monday for work that his...

But Not Necessarily on Bases FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT T HE biggest rise in the average family's budget during the...

IN the six months ended in September 1 last the Grimsby and Cleethorpes joint transport undertaking made £11,000 more than in...

P ARKING meter schemes are aiding the driver trying to deliver goods, according to Mr. R. E. G. Brown, London Secretary of the...

their lights on when left the road in London during the hours darkness, points out the Metropolit Commissioner of Police in a...

T HE Brunswick (West Germany) pr ducer of goods vehicles and mot buses, Bussing Automobilwerke AG. h bought from the liquidator...

I N the first half of this year 385,41 motor vehicles, of which only 117,2. were private cars, were produced Japan. This is...

ids-vehicle fleet (excluding vehicles istered in West Berlin) will rise from .roximately 644,000 units last year to ,000 units...

came before the North Western Traffic Commissioners in Manchester last week, involved linking of destinations and catchment...

FROM OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT T the same, time he has his channel crossing talks with M. Buron on 'ember 20, Mr. Marples...

Economic Coal Haulage by P. A. C. Brockington, R EDUCING unladen weight to a minimum, using a suitable chassis frame,...

pOWERED by a D.A.F.-Leyland 0.350 turbocharged engine, an irticulated tandem-axle trailer outfit was recently tested on the...

Reported by S. Buckley "T HIS seems to me to show a contempt for the road haulage industry which is evidently not shared by...

H EADBOARDS made from reinforced plastics in sizes to suit many light vans are now being marketed by Bedford Coachworks Co.,...

polyester resins and a general reduction in polyester resin prices have been made by British Resin Products, Ltd. Eight new...

W. Chapman, Ltd., Fulham, S.W_6, which incorporates an hydraulic damper to prevent vibrations and shocks from bad road surfaces...

Ranplan _steel drawing-storage cabinets is now available from James H. Randall and Son, Ltd., Paddington Green Works, London,...

which the plates are charged and hermetically sealed at the factory, are being introduced by Associated Electrical Industries,...

1 - 1 and Wheel Data Book has IN published by the India Tyre Compa It covers a wide range of vehicles British manufacture and...

the Astley Industrial Trust, L. Alport House, Quay Street, M. thester, 3, giving information of the rai of hire-purchase...

are n made by Sansons (Campden) Plast Ltd., 121 Notting Hill Gate, Lond. W.11. The covers appear to be-well made a have...

ing Things Moving in Industi. dealing with the industrial range molybdenum disulphide products mai factured by the Slip Group...

-N -OT enough is being heard of the views of commercial-vehicle operators on the Channel link or construction that has again...

43rd Turin International Motor Show Finds Italian Makers in Top GC Buoyant Mood, with Production and Exports Rising :...

IT is all very well for Mr. Marples to build his eyecatching motorways" you say in your Leader of Ictober 6, "but the real...

pECAUSE of the concern shown by a number , of delegates at last month's Road Haulage Association conference with respect to...

Costs and Charges for Operating a 7-ton Tipper are Calculated for Varying Mileages with Appropriate Time Allowances B ECAUSE...

A SIX-WHEELED vehicle, powered on all wheels, is described in patent No, 874,707. The layout of the transmission, which enables...

/ - 1 A NEW steel alloy of the austenitic type is disclosed in patent No 876,458 by . Ford Motor Co., Ltd., 88 Regent Street,...

1— k A SCHEME for tipping the electrodes of sparking plugs with platinum is shown in patent No. 877,093 by Robert Bosch A.G.,...