Every weekday before noon, pigs are slaughtered in Trowbridge. By 7 a.m. the next morning they are on sale in retail shops as...

If it were not such a deplorable waste of intelligent and busy men's time the discussion about the future of the Road Haulage...

say tipper men MENDIPS GROUP REJECTS QUARRYMASTERS' SCALE by David Lowe • The Mendips Tipper Operators Group has decided to...

• The Freight Transport Association has told the commission of inquiry into the future structure of the Road Haulage Wages...

375 HP TWIN-ROTOR UNIT DEMONSTRATED ON NEW PROVING GROUND • Last Friday MAN, of Munich, used the occasion of the opening of a...

• A report which is likely to shape the pattern of freight charges in the Highlands and islands is to be prepared by Associated...

• By 1973 it is estimated that the total number of people employed in road haulage will have risen to 240,000. This compares...

• Designed to take optimum advantage from the exclusion of 30cwt light vans from carriers' licensing is a new Luton model from...

• Whitehall has dashed a Hook Norton, Oxon, haulage contractors hopes of moving his controversial business .to nearby Bloxham....

• The Port of London Authority has produced a new comprehensive „guide 'to export procedure in London's enclosed dock systems...

• Southampton tanker driver Gordon Harding, 36, who risked his life to drive his blazing vehicle away from army sleeping...

GUY MOTORS CELEBRATES PRODUCTION OF 5,000th MODEL • It was Big J Day in Wolverhampton on Wednesday. At the Fallings Park works...

• D. H. Morgan (Engineers) Ltd– of Bordon, Hampshire, designer and manufacturer of the Hydrci-Couple low-loading semi-trailers....

• The new Hull forwarding company. Humber Keyways Ltd., which has been formed to take over the forwarding activities previously...

• The 22ewt Ford Transit that ICI Mond division has put into operation at its Meadow Bank Salt Mine at Winsford in Cheshire had...

• The Mersey Docks and Harbour Board has announced increased charges for cargo handling in the Port of Liverpool from October 1...

• The Electric Vehicle Association of Great Britain has launched a new publicity campaign to encourage the use of electric...

• A new analysis of cars and private vans by body types as well as by engine size is contained in Highway Statistics 1968...

section of A303 has been removed by today's opening of the new three-mile Amesbury by-pass. The by-pass has been built at a...

• A twin amber flashing light unit is to be added to school crossing patrol signs where there is no clear view of the patrol...

episode in the six-week old strike/closure dispute between D. E. Hines (Transport), of Streetly, and the TGWU over the...

The September 12 issue of CM will be a big special number on the theme of articulation, designed to bring readers right up to...

• Parts of M4 Motorway between Chiswick and Maidenhead Thicket Interchange are to be closed to traffic on three Sundays in...

of the SELNEC PTE. He will hold the position of member responsible for establishment and public relations. Further additions to...

• Discussions with a view to a merger have taken place between Walter Alexander (Commercial Vehicles) Ltd and the Edinburgh car...

• British manufacturers made 40,582 commercial vehicles in June-246,770 in the six months ended June 28, states the Society of...

• Fife County Council is to go ahead with plans to set up a new transport depot at the former Territorial Army depot in...

• The Scottish LA, Mr. A. B. Birnie, heard an application by Freightliners Ltd., at Glasgow on Tuesday, to vary its...

had proved costly, less efficient and less suited for container work than its own vehicles and had resulted in a loss of £3,413...

• A roll-on /roll-off unit, a Durnpmaster and a tanker were added to a B licence belonging to Purle Waste Disposal (West...

• Although an operator had been convicted for offences relating to forgery of drivers' records and unauthorized use of a...

• The Minister of Transport has now made the SELNEC Passenger Transport Area (Transfer of Undertakings) Order 1969 This...

• It was an offence to lend a licence disc or certificates, said Mr. J. C. Samuel-Gibbon, the Western LA, at a public inquiry...

• The West Midland LA, Mr. J. Else, on Wednesday told Mr. 0, B. Henry, of Purle Waste Disposal Ltd., to make a more realistic...

They all add up to the best value for money in the maximum GVW range: Super-luxury, super-tilt Custom cab for excellent engine...

• Following three applications, involving 10 passenger operators, all asking for an excursions licence to run week-end ski...

• Mr. R. P. Cherry, of Beverley, was granted a new express service licence to take workers to the Hawker Siddeley factory at...

• Increased fares on its services throughout Scotland are being sought by the Scottish Bus 'Group in an application to the...

Yorkshire APPLICATIONS August 271969 S. and D. Knowles (Transpord Ltd.. Bradford, New A lie.. 5 veh. (20-1-0. Mainly fruit,...

• During the hearing of an application by Central Metals, of Leeds, at Leeds last week, the LA, Maj.-Gen. Sir John Potter told...

succeeds • in Durban by C. A. Hyams • With traffic congestion in city centres becoming more acute, a number of corporations...

• Aberdeen Corporation transport department, which anticipated a deficit of almost £38,000 on its operations during 1968-69,...

• The Bristol Group of Companies which will be faced with a considerably increased wages bill for crews from September 14 when...

• Mr. George Stringer, Teesside Transport's deputy manager, is to take over the running of the buses at Newcastle in the...

• Hebble Motor Services Ltd.. Halifax, has taken over responsibility for the operation of certain local routes in the West...

• A 20-ton-gross bulk vehicle equipped with a demountable aluminium tipper body has been supplied by B. W. Winter and Sons,...

• The Motor Insurers' Bureau is a relatively little known organization. Most road users are unlikely to get directly involved...

• Combining the tough terrain crossing agility of its namesake with the talents of a mountain goat is the two-passenger,...

• British trailer-maker Merriworth (Engineering) Ltd„ Dartford, Kent, has started exporting its products to Sweden. Last week,...

• Among a series of management and supervisory training courses arranged by the Road Transport Industry Training Board at the...

• The Southend College of Technology has announced details of the road transport courses to be held at the College during the...

• As from September 1, time alone governs recommended service intervals for Bedford light vans, replacing the "whichever comes...

• The George Cohen 600 Group Ltd., Wood Lane, London. W12, is to hold a Crane and Hoist exhibition daily from Wednesday October...

by Handyman Loads and forces (16) • When light, laminated panels are dislodged from a platform when at speed on a motorway,...

• While chapters on "Material Selection" and "Plastics in the Motor Industry" are the only sections of Plastics as Metal...

• Known as the Safe-T-Flate, a new safety air bag inflation system has been produced in prototype form by the Olin Corporation,...

Lancashire County Fire Brigade is answering its longest call this week, but if there's a fire at the end it will only be a...

Glasgow Corporation employees have been using a lot of oil recently. When this happens in transport we are inclined to keep...

Like love and marriage, or the horse and carriage, by-pass openings and speeches just naturally go together. But last week's...

Remember that piece last week about the official application forms from the Ministry of Transport being printed in Welsh? I...

Decimalization is here—on the Isle of Man. General manager Bill Lambden, of Isle of Man Road Services Ltd., tells me that about...

It's Birmingham versus London in the final of the National p.s.v. cricket competition. These two undertakings will meet at the...

S ii fl clay by IAIN SHERRIFF MITA The Lorry Driver of the Year competition is more than just a pot-hunting exercise. It is...

Who will be this year's LDOY champion? One man who thinks he has the answer is CM's Art Editor JAMES MILLEN. Having...

A SPECIAL SERIES BY R. P. C. BLOCK 6. The Flow-line ingredients to produce total operating costs PREVIOUSLY in this series I...

by P. A. C. Brockington, MIMechE A NEW V10 engine developing 320 bhp (DIN) powers new ranges of Mercedes-Benz trucks and...

by P. A. C. BROCK1NGTON, MIMechE Lecturers and course students at Loughborough University of Technology dissect braking...

A monthly intelligence report on container topics this month from Rotterdam by NORMAN DOUGLAS Battle of the North Sea hots...

by P. A. C. Brockington, mimechE Roll stiffness could spell danger A LEADING OIL company technician has stated publicly that...

Robbing Peter to pay Paul Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why so can I, or so can any man; But...

1RITISH universities in recent years have lecome much less insular, showing 'a welome readiness to go out and meet the public....

school and part of my duty is to organize the transport for various activities. For some time we have toyed with the idea of...

types and a number have to be parked in the open. We want to find some form of heating which could be used for the purpose of...

supply ourselves, and vehicles supplied complete with drivers by haulage contractors operating under Contract A licences. We...

1. Suggestions where I might obtain parts lists and/or instruction book: 2. Where and if it is possible to obtain a "meter" as...

an amendment was being introduced to allow vehicles of a gross vehicle weight of 3_5 tons to be exempt from the MoT heavy...

by George Wilmot Senior Lecturer in Transport Studies, University of London. Greater effort needed in lecturer training THE...

BY LES OLDRIDGE, A.I.Ff.T.E„ A.114,1,44.1. Registration and licensing AS we all know, to our cost, excise duty must be paid...

M.G.B. Transport Ltd. Cap.: £100. Object: To catty on the business of general haulage contractors, in all its branches, etc....

The company that claims to have pioneered the use of helical gears in gearor rotor-type pumps, now known as Varley-FMC Ltd.,...

The "Drikold' VanCooler--an efficient, but cheap, thermostatically controlled refrigeration system for retail delivery vans...

The 28th system in the Aiphone range of communication systems is for industrial and commercial use, marketed as the NAP.20.M....

Westinghouse CVB has produced a pamphlet that describes the company's air /hydraulic/mechanical servo unit that is particularly...

Body extension kits are available from Telehoist Ltd., Cheltenham, for increasing the capacity of the company's 14ft Tel-lite...

Following the publication of metric specifications for plain washers (BS 4320) and crinkle washers (BS 4463), the British...

T. Williams (Drop Forgings and Tools) Ltd. has introduced a range of short bi-hexagon ringspanners in fully polished chromium...

A special frame is produced by Slaven Transport Products to enable the company's STP Hitch fifth-wheel coupling to be mounted...

Graduated in divisions of rnm, the MB tyre tread-depth gauge gives readings of 0.5mm to 20min. graduated in divisions of •-mm....

Made from damp-resistant Terylene or nylon, Guardian Gardlok lashings are supplied in three widths, 19mm 25mm (1 in.) and 50mm...

The Workmate, a portable, lightweight workbench from Mate Tools weighs 3211a and can be folded and hung away when not in use;...

A four-way fully inter-communicating system is produced by Ai phone Communication Systems for the smaller office. It is known...

A special heat-resistant engine paint is available from Porzelack on Eoz. aerosol cans. Colours include black, red, green,...

We have now received an amendment from the makers to the price of the Kentredder pneumatic tyre spreader. This is, in fact, £25...

1. All load-carrying motor vehicles of more than 30 cwt. unladen weight and all tractive units of articulated vehicles in the...

It could affect you. The scheme for the compulsory testing and plating of goods vehicles under the Road Safety Act 1967 is now...

From 1st October.1969 you have to send in a valid Goods Vehicle Test Certificate when you apply for an Excise Licence if your...

Go to any Money Order Post Office and get Form VTG 1 for motor vehicles or Form VTG 2 for trailers. Both forms will tell you...

An exhaust gas purifier, introduced at the Clean Air Exhibition by the manufacturer, Engelhard Sales, is now in production. The...

A range of illuminated signs for use on road vehicles has been introduced by Van Lite. Two types are available, one being...

A range of tyre repair materials being launched by Romac Industries Ltd. has been designed to give safe and permanent repairs...

Edbro has produced an illustrated leaflet describing the recently introduced Easifit hydraulic taildoor loader designed for...

The price of the Wickham commercial vehicle washer designated Lightning (CM July 25 page 69l, was quoted as £5,500. This should...