A PPROPRIATELY, with articulated bulkers on the increase, there is news in this issue of the latest moves in the " fight " to...

SURPLUS OF ROAD REVENUE OVER COSTS WILL EXCEED 25,000m. BY 1970 "IT is important to correct some widely I publicized but...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT N EW measures to ease the frustrating delays at London's docks were put into operation by...

A NEW car transporter from Carrimore Six Wheelers Ltd. is designed to provide the utmost protection for the vehicles carried,...

D RIVERS and other transport staff are to benefit under a new redundancy and severance nay agreement, just signed by the...

L EVIES payable under• the Industrial Training Act are likely to be substantial, warned Sir John Hunter, chairman of the...

A NEW book written by D. I. Hartley!". Smith." Diesel Engine Maintenance ", was published by Iliffe Books Ltd. on December 3,...

M ORE than £146 in fines and costs was imposed on four long-distance lorry drivers at Daventry last week when further cases...

in fuel tax was expressed by the chairman of the Road Haulage Association, Mr. A. R. Butt, in a speech last week at the annual...

L IGHTWEICHT semi-trailers designed 1 .--4 for maximum gross weights within the Construction and Use Regulations are being...

TRADERS with only a few vehicles. I and especially those engaged on local delivery work, often seemed to feel that they had no...

just 1. 1 1 acquired a site in Brunel Road, Rotherhithe, London S.E., for their sixth guarded lorry park in the London area....

A REAR end which is removable complete with aeration 1 -- V unit is the latest development in powder pressure tanks made by...

" IT is difficult to see what the task of a transport overlord would be unless it was to reshape the present road transport...

TEN men and seven companies were charged at Croydon, Surrey, last week with conspiring to cheat and defraud the Crown out of...

B ECAUSE of the increasing volume of complaints from members of the Road Haulage Association whose vehicles pass through...

THE Transport Holding Company is I expected to earn a profit before tax of 117 in. for the year ending December 31, 1964. This...

T HE Minister of Transport this week promised to consider any specific suggestions about altering the regulations governing...

F ORIVIER Conservative Cabinet Minister, Sir Keith Joseph, is bringing a Bill into Parliament to give effect to the 1956 Geneva...

PA removal of Covent Garden Market from its present site to Nine Elms, Battersea, has been presented to Parliament. In its...

M R. MAURICE HOLMES, chairman of the Tilling Group of bus companies, will become chairman of the London Transport Board next...

THERE is to be no petrol tax rebate for L p.s.v. as a . whole. A Conservative attempt to extend the concession in this way was...

A SUGGESTION that he should give a . 1-1 general direction to the British Railways Board to make more vans available for the...

I N reply to a recent inquiry by Mr. Peter Walker, M.P., in his capacity as president of the National Conference of Road...

of honours, presented as outgoing Prime Minister, Mr. Rupert Speir (Hexham) is to receive a knighthood. Mr. Speir has been a...

LL EADERS of London's busmen are to see the Minister of Transport next Friday (December 11) to discuss problems affecting...

A NEW bus station and garage opened by Lord Stafford on behalf of the Potteries Motor Traction Co. Ltd. this week can claim to...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT T HE Ministry of Labour has wasted little time in its efforts to find a way out of the...

by all 126,000 drivers and conductors on bus services in Scotland will be called is likely to result from a meeting today...

rOEWCASTLE, UPON TYNE city i N transport committee has decided to introduce concessionary fares for pensioners and disabled...

'THE successful launching of a new 1. subsidized bus service between Helmdon and Brackley, in Northamptonshire, was reported in...

T HE Government is clearly concerned about its image. Like a young girl before a mirror it is titivating itself as best it can...

Poor Support Mrs. Jeffs. The Brackley station site on the erstwhile Towcester to Banbury branch line was rented at first; last...

serve districts outside as well as inside their boundaries. To subsidize transport from rates for the benefit of one's own...

A N application by Braithwaite Tours Ltd., of Hartlepool, Co. Durham, to develop their tours to Northern Ireland and Eire was...

THE Minister of Transport has disI missed an appeal by Stockland Garage Ltd. against the decision of the West Midland Traffic...

occurred in the re' report headed "United Counties Express Service Refused" in last week's issue. The application was in fact...

THE Transport Tribunal in London on Tuesday, dismissed an appeal by the British Railways Board against a decision of the North...

RAND and gravel operators who Li received 8s. 6d. per Cu, yd. for carrying away rubbish from a building site to M worked-out...

WJOMEN working for the Whitby IN Shellfish Company found travelling on public transport embarrassing because of smell from...

T HE appeal of Mr. Ralph C. F. Cropper, a transport consultant, of Farnborough Hill, Kent, against his conviction last December...

'THE Transport Tribunal, in a written I decision, has dismissed the reconsidered appeal by William Walker of Aberdeen against...

HOW long does a verbal undertaking" given during a public hearing by an applicant in order to appease objectors, secure the...

A N objection with a difference was I -1 lodged recently by Edinburgh tipper operator Mr. Nelson Smith-chairman of the...

also chairman of United Kingdom Oil Pipelines Ltd., has been appointed to the National Economic Development CouncilNEDDY. Mr....

By The Technical Editor A LTHOUGH operators are clamourin g for artics able to run at 26, 28 or 30 tons g ross as allowed in...

T HE Fruehauf Corporation of America is seriously considering whether to produce its own axles, according to the president of...

A VERAGE discharge rates of between 15 and 20 tons PA an hour over distances up to 100 ft. are achieved with this new bulk...

and Publications Perameters Range for Hire T HE Perameters range of equipment for moulding and dispensing urethane foams can...

Cause of a Broken Stub Axle A BROKEN stub axle, causing a front wheel to come adrift and drop the axle assembly heavily on to...

nUR prizewinner this week is Mr. D. Smith, of Ironbridge, nr. Shropshire. His idea is concerned with prop shaft nuts and...

E DUCATION has been very much in the news lately, what with arguments about the two cultures, whether there should be more than...

By R. D. CATER W HEN the time comes for the smaller company to replace vehicles or increase the size of the fleet, very often...

Avoiding contamination is a demanding part of tanker work C OLOSSAL sums of money are paid out each year by insurance companies...

BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT T HE Home Office regulations laid down for the construction and use of vehicles engaged in the...

By Ashley Taylor Assoc. Inst. T. D URING the 52 years that the business of John Ancliff and Co. Ltd. has been in existence...

By R. D. CATER IT is not unusual in the tank haulage industry to see a perfectly serviceable tanker making a rod for its...

I N many ways the article dealing with road-tanker design published in the last Bulk Transport special issue of The Connnercial...

then the prospects of subsidies for better bus services seem slight By H. BRIAN COTTEE A LTHOUGH the area in which the...

W ITH the new Government's drive to boost the country's exports, plus the fact that, in any case, over the past few years more...

By The Hawk VIEW Motorway Lighting The first stretch of motorway lighting in Britain is now very much in evidence on the...

G REATER efficiency is seemingly implied by the term "bulk transport ". The steady growth of this method of collection and...