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5th February 1954
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Road Conditions Deplorable

VERY year the receipts of taxation of motor vehicles and their fuel increase, and it is estimated that this year they will be...

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Passing Comments

Oil Savings for Europe THE petroleum chief of the American Mutual Security Agency, Cornelius J. Dwyer, recently completed a...

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One Hears

That there is only one boss—the buyer. That Shell have given the lead in dealing with lead. That there is no 'rudeness now in...

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When Unit Base May be Changed

A LICENSING AUTHORITY is ti understood to have indicated in general terms the circumstances in which he would allow the base of...

ANOTHER 3s. 4d, FOR MUNICIPAL BUSMEN?

B ELIEF that the unions will press for LP the recent 4s, pay award to municipal bus workers to be brought into line with the...

PAY RISE FOR ANOTHER 6,800

A BOUT 6,800 workers in London Transport's bus workshops will benefit from an agreement reached between the Executive and the...

FREE TRANSPORT WANTED FOR 45m. CU, FT. OF TIMBER

T HE Forestry Conunission have been told that unless free transport is provided to move it to mills in the south of Scotland,...

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Authority Gets Down to Business

A T Salisbury, last Friday, Mr. S. W. Nelson, Western Licensing Authority, made it clear that he intended .to deal with...

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Men in the News SIR ALFRED FAULKNER has for personal

reasons resigned his presidency of the Mansion House Association on Transport. MR. M. F. BARNARD has been nominated as...

Court of Inquiry into Pay Dispute

T HE Minister of Labour has decided to appoint a court of 'inquiry into the pay dispute between the bus companies and some...

NO-HIRE DECISION IMPUGNED A MOTION regretting the decision of

Nottingham Transport Committee not to hire out off-service buses is to be discussed by the city council.

Two C Licences Suspended

W HEN he suspended the C licences of two Aberdeen operators, last week, for frequent breaches of the conditions, the Scottish...

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No Special Hearing on Half-fares

A SPECIAL sitting to hear the case for allowing half-fares to 15-yearold children put by nearly 20 local authorities in...

RAIL CHARGES INCREASE COULD PREJUDICE PLANS

" A N increase in freight charges at this stage, while providing no real solution to the problem, could in fact prejudice the...

DOUBLE-DECKER FOR BLOOD TRANSFUSION

T HE blood-transfusion service of Sheffield Regional Hospital Board has been newly equipped with a doubledeck mobile unit, now...

"IMPROVE PARKING, OR . . . "

CAT1SFACTORY parking facilities s.-.) for coaches carrying Scottish visitors into the town are being sought by Whitley Bay...

No Bargains—Mr. Morton Mitchell

14AULIERS should not assume that there would be "cheap bargains at the end of the day" in the closing stages of the sale of...

Copenhagen to Run New Crush-loaders

A FLEET of 30 new Leyland buses is shortly to go into service in Copenhagen. The vehicles are Royal Tigers with pneumo-cyclic...

TIGER CUB SPARE-WHEEL CARRIER

A SPARE-WHEEL carrier of the PA winch type has been introduced in standard Leyland Tiger Cub models. It is mounted in front of...

"GIVE SOLICITORS TIME TO PREPARE CASE"

A WARNING that applicants must give their legal representatives time to prepare a case was given by the Scottish Licensing...

HEAVY TRAFFIC HAMPERED

V ARIOUS civic, transport and industrial interests agreed at a conference at Greenock last week to support the efforts of...

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New " Reject " Lists of Transport Units

CPECIAL " reject' lists of transport L.) units for which no satisfactory offers were received in the first two lists, are to be...

NEW APPROACH TO TRAFFIC PROBLEMS?

MEWCASTLE UPON TYNE'S traffic problems will be discussed by a special committee formed of corporation representatives and local...

TAKE-OVER OF NON-EXISTENT BUSINESS?

WERE Robert Dickson, Jun., Ltd., VV Dundee, attempting to take over a non-existent business? This question was argued before...

SHORT MID-WEEK TOURS POPULAR

HORT mid-week tours are becoming increasingly popular. Trent Motor Traction Co., Ltd., are among the operators catering for...

NOTTINGHAM TO RAISE FARES? A NOTHER application for increased .1 - 1

fares is being considered by Nottingham Transport Committee, the vice-chairman, Mr. W. G. Dyer, stated on Monday. A proposal...

Why Tenders Were Thrown Out

QPEAKING at the annual luncheon kJ of the Central London Sub-area of the Road Haulage Association, Mr. C. W, H, Sparrow, a...

Id. AN HOUR OFFER REFERRED TO COURT

T HE offer of Id. an hour increase in pay for maintenance and repair workers of British Road Services has been referred to the...

CUT PURCHASE TAX, SAY F.B.I. A REDUCTION in the general

rates ti of purchase tax has been recommended to the Chancellor of the Exchequer by the Federation of British Industries, who...

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Private Party Ruling Rejected by Scottish Court

A HIGH COURT decision requiring 1-1 a contract-carriage operator to produce evidence that an occasion was " special" and the...

Safety Bill a "Big Job" A SKED in the House

of Commons, PA last week, when he would introduce legislation to improve road safety, the Minister of Transport, Mr. A. T....

Warned to Stop Illegal Services

"IN your own interests the operation of these services should cease immediately," the East Midland Licensing Authority, Mr. A....

£12,056 PROFIT FORECAST

A NET profit of £12.056 is expected to be shown by Sunderland•Trabsport Department at the end of the current financial year on...

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Car Transporters in Appeal Case

A DVANTAGES of delivering new cars from the works on a special transporter, compared with direct driver-delivery under trade...

ABNORMAL LOADS: LORD LUCAS COMPLAINS nURING a discussion in the House

of Lords last week on the 30 m.p.h. speed limit in built-up areas, Lord Lucas raised the matter of road congestion caused by...

ANOTHER B.R.F. CAMPAIGN A NEW campaign on bridges and tunnels

has been opened by the British Road Federation. The first step is the wide circulation of a new booklet ,entitled "Cross That...

SIR BRIAN VISITS SCOTLAND

It/TATTERS arising out of the 1V 1 denationalization of road haulage were discussed by Gen. Sir Brian Robertson, chairman of...

DARTFORD TUNNEL DISCUSSION n VER 100 trade, industrial and civic representatives

met in London last week to discuss the resumption of work on the Dartford-Purfleet tunnel. Lord Sandhurst, chairman of the...

• B.R.S. Spend El5im. on Lorries

I N the past three years British Road Services have spent £.15,1m, on modern vehicles incorporating many devices likely to...

NEW TYRE CONTRACT BRINGS PROFIT

A SURPLUS of several hundred pounds" is expected by West Hartlepool Transport Department at the end of the current financial...

FREEDOM TO WORK

1 - 1 A NEW aid to maintenance is pro vided by a cap lamp introduced by Oldham and Son, Ltd., Denton. Manchester. It is a...

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State View on Meat Transport

THE use of ordinary vans for the 1 transport of meat was most unsatisfactory, and it was hoped that licensing considerations...

RAPID GROWTH REFLECTS NEED

T HE rapid increase of membership of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers amply demonstrated the need for the...

41 SEATS INSTEAD OF 25

A NUMBER of petrol-engined 25seaters run by Bour-emouth Transport Department is being replaced by six Leyland Royal Tiger...

NIGHT COACH SERVICES POPULAR

MIGHT express coach services were 1 becoming increasingly popular because they saved the cost of a night's accommodation and...

"WORKING MEN'S" CONTINENTAL TOUR?

S UPPORTING an application for a "working men's" tour of the Continent before the Scottish Licensing Authority, last week, an...

Big New Western S.M.T. Depot A NEW depot of the Western

S.M.T.. Co., Ltd., with a covered area of 53,130 sq. ft., was opened at Curnnock, Ayrshire, last Friday, by Mr. W. P. Quin,...

£150,000 FOR NEW BUS DEPOT

MORK will begin in March on a W new central bus depot at Lady burn. Greenock, for the Western S.M.T. Co., Ltd. The estimated...

BETTER TRANSPORT NEEDED

T HEneed for better transport facilities in Cumberland to meet the requirements of industry, was emphasized by Lord Adams at...

WATCH FOR REGULATIONS TRADERS should keep a keen watch 1

for any proposed traffic regulations in their locality, Mr. R. E. G Brown, secretary of the -London and Home Counties Division...

£7m. PROFIT FOR B.R.S.?

S PEAKING at a dinner of the Worshipful Company of Carmen last week, Lord Hurcomb, former chairman of the British Transport...

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WHY NOT AUCTION TRANSPORT UNITS?

asks Ralph Cropper M.Sc. (Econ.), B.A., A.M.Inst.T. Present System of Disposal Encourages Low Tenders : Auction Would Raise...

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Too Much Paid for B.T.C. Units By a Scottish Correspondent

G LASGOW operators believe that the prices paid for poor vehicles in List No. I have been ridiculously high. They say also...

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CONFIDENTIAL tEPORT

Independent and Expert Assessments of Drivers' Capabilities by the B.S.M. Help Transport Managers in Selecting Employees and...

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New B.O.C. Cutting Machine

T HE most recent addition to the ran g e of cuttin g machines produced by the British Oxy g en Co., Ltd., Brid g ewater House,...

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London Double-decker with Independent Suspension

IT is understood that a new double.I. deck bus, having independent suspension at both front and rear, is being developed by...

At 6 is shown the drop arm, which is forked

at its lower end, one limb being pivoted to rod 7 and the other to the track rod (8). The track rod is linked to a mock drop...

Threat to Private Operators in U.T.A. Report ?

pOINTED references are again made in the report of the Ulster Transport Authority for the year ended September 30, 1953, to...

November Registrations Drop

N OVEMBER witnessed a seasonal drop in the registration of new vehicles. The figure fell from 13,781 for October to 11.470. The...

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252 BUSES CARRY REFEN Y LABOUR

Road Transport Makes Possible the Daily Concentration and Dispersal of Skilled Workers from Over a Wide Area to the...

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Advantages of Aluminium for Bodywork

A IvIONG the chief advantages of aluminium bodywork for commercial vehicles are greater earning capacity consequent on a bigger...

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Poles Apart

NT1L recently, any survey of the road haulage industry could make a convenient division betwe..n British Road services...

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German Oil Engine in Use in London

T HE first Austin taxi to be fitted with a German Borgward oil engine was recently put into service )), the Hackney Transport...

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Aggressive Export Policy Needed

VUE have noticed in our newspaper Natal Mercury that certain bankers of Britain are complaining bitterly of, and warning...

"£50m. Estimate for Roads Now £24fm."

A CCORDING to the official Estimates of Expenditure, the £50m. which was "to be approved" for road improvements during next...

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Bus Denationalization : Operators Anxious About Delay

S ERIOUS anxiety is felt by the Public Transport Association and the Passenger Vehicle Operators' Association over the...

B.T.C. Dispute One Vehicle

A DECISION of the Western Deputy 1 - 1. Licensing Authority to add a vehicle to the A licence of Messrs. A. H. Gore, Clutton,...

In a Line or Two

The last of Belfast's trams will soon he withdrawn from service. They arc now operated on only one route. Forty - four Swedish...

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RATES—the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

Charges Scheduled Too High Encourage Cutting by Operators Whose Overheads are Modest, Particularly Owner-drivers, Whilst, if...

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Pumping Equipment for Tankers

T HE large capacity of modern tanker vehicles renders some form of discharge pumping almost a necessity. Improvements in such...