otor VOLUME 133 No. 3415 May 7 1971 :contents A strong case for the local touch The report of the PTA's investigation into...

FTA probes customer reaction to test scheme • After over two years of operation, is the Government's good vehicle plating and...

• Willowbrook Ltd, the Loughboroughbased bus bodybuilding member of the Duple Group has been sold for f700,000. to Mr George...

7affic managers hear )out retail trends; nail engines and illution; coming safety atures; maintenance cilities; and anagement...

• The National Freight Corporation has organized its operating companies into six groups, each headed by a co-ordinator charged...

• A detailed but extremely easy-to-us catalogue is the basis of a new nation2 network of vehicle under-chassis spare announced...

• Proposed increases in Mersey Tunne tolls could provide an additional deterrent t( the commercial traffic using the Port o...

• Crane Fruehauf Trailers increased theil sales for the year ended December 31 197( by 29 per cent over the previous year tc...

lain Sherriff Although a party of operators and iler manufacturers visited France last ek to see how the Novatrans road/rail...

Doubts about the effectiveness of a }hp /ton power /weight ratio for heavy iods vehicles, without a requirement to test...

• The Department of Employment is considering proposals from the RTITB concerning the training of redundant drivers CM, April...

• The Road Haulage Association's programme for the annual conference, to be held at Brighton from October 25 to 27, will follow...

• Mr Richard Sharpies, Minister of State, announced last week that regulations to control the transport by road of corrosive...

• ERF (Holdings) Ltd produced a record number of commercial vehicles in the year ended April 3, Mr Peter Foden, chairman,...

■ If old soldiers never die, old vehicles ctually multiply—so it would appear if le Historic Commercial Vehicle Club's in to...

• The EEC Commission is trying to improve the enforcement of the two-year-old regulation relating to driving time and...

• Albany Freight Ltd has awarded Hilton TIR groupage service the major contract for the movement of British industrial and...

toll by Paul Brockington • There was a roar of laughter at the Wolverhampton prize-giving on Sunday when M. Richards of...

• Ways of increasing the attractiveness of public -transport, both directly and by mea sures taken behind the scenes, formed an...

• Total enclosure of the rear-mounted engine, employing two small radiators with low-speed fans, forced air cooling of the...

• Bee-Line Roadways Ltd, Middlesbrough, the largest operator of excursions and tours in the North East, has succeeded in its...

• The profit of Lancashire United Transport for the year ended December 31 1970 was £162,147 compared to £248,942 for the...

• The move by the Minister for Transport Industries to simplify the law on bus and coach drivers' hours (CM, March 5) has been...

• Following convictions at Cardiff magistrates' court in February (CM February 12) when British Road Services Ltd was. fined a...

• Objections by the Merseyside PTE (southern division) and the SELNEC PTE were overruled by the North Western Traffic...

)perator's self-imposed penalty No penalty was imposed by Maj-Gen L. F. J. Elmslie, South Eastern LA, at astbourne this week,...

• The Department of the Environment vithdrew summonses for overloading /chicks against 18 hauliers at Middlesnough on Wednesday...

D D. B. Marshall (Newbridge) Ltd, which )perates a chicken growing, rearing rocessing and packing business at five )oints in...

Ralph Bennett, 46, a member of London Transport Executilfe since 1968, is to succeed Anthony Bull as deputy chairman when the...

By Paul Brockington • Most operators have a low level of understanding of their own transmission problems, in the Ford view,...

• "Ford Code", which encourages body makers and equipment suppliers to mount their products on Ford trucks efficiently and...

lain Sherriff, MITA EUGENIO ANTUNES is Portuguese and a director of Uniao de Transportadores para Importacao e Comercio Lda,...

by Paul Brockington, miMechE 3. geared for export MATCHING a transmission to the power unit and to operator requirements is...

PERRY FLOWERS by Tim Hoare SPITE the strength of the well-known ional Dutch manufacturer and the resentation of other...

Join them! - many, when a Minister visits a factory s given a bright and shiny briefing about company by the management and a...

NEED TO BE TOUGH by Gordon Crabtree EVEN before the days of ping-pong diplomacy, UK manufacturers of semitrailers were...

by Les Oldridge AIRTE, AMIMI Notice of intended prosecution AFTER a driver has been involved in an accident or has been...

We welcome letters for publication on transport topics. Address them to Commercial Motor, Dorset House, Stamford Street, London...

I would like to congratulate you on your realistic and forthright editorial (CM. April 16), and to express the hope that your...

After witnessing many results of vehicl jack-knifing although fitted with anti-jar knife devices, I wonder whether any of yc...

)ULD anti-locking brake systems be le compulsory on commercial vehicles? call for legislation on this, and on the gation to fit...

There were only three minutes to the final stle in the Rugby game between Coventry the North of England when Chris rdlow, the...

workshop by Handyman Bench wise: reducing downtime PROBABLY the safest approach in the search for reduced downtime is to use...

TWELVEMONTH by Tony Wilding, whiled NINETEEN vehicles have been put through road tests in the past year, which is Around the...

by Janus I N most quarters the Foulness decision has been greeted as a victory for the environmental lobby. Such a judgment...

matters by John Darker, AMBIM Transport and distribution consultants No3, Howard, Packham and Associates Wing or sluggish...

expert staff will gladly answer your queries. Letters should be addressed to: 'Ct' and 'A Bureau, Commercial Motor, Dorset...

by George Wilmot Senior Lecturer in Transport Studies, University of London. R. Tech and R. Tech Eng becoming complex THE...

For the next seven days commencing May7 to13. SUNDAY Start of National Association of Furniture Warehousemen and Removers'...

by Inspector K. W. Norman, Crime Prevention Section, New Scotland Yard. • Lessons can be learned from the recer attack...

Engineering Ltd has )ped a hot water pressure 3r operating at a pressure ) psi which is known as the Hotmaster Mk 3. It tes at...

Churchill and Co Ltd has cad a door holding fixture o request of the Motor ance Repair Research 3. It is used for door repairs...

A completely new range of floor-care products has been developed by Applied Chemicals to meet the requirements of the many...

Miniature sleeve, pistoncum-diaphragm and stainlesssteel-bellows types are described and illustrated in a . new brochure...

A fifth-wheel mounting frame with lead-up ramps has been developed by Slaven Transport Products Ltd to augment the company's...

Weighing 350Ib, a one-piece vehicle refrigerating unit has been produced by TransFrig Ltd that has an extraction capacity of...

A new company—Anchc Ltd, an Anglo-American venture by T. T. Boughtor and the Kysor Group of Ca( Michigan—has been form, design,...

by Tony Wilding In most fleets the cars run by company representatives and so on can be a considerable nuisance to an engineer...

Danfoss is marketing a new series in its range of Orbit slow-speed hydraulic motors known as the OMR. This type incorporates an...

Complete protection of the blower of a bulk vehicle against over-pressure is claimed to be provided by a relief valve known as...

ble and visual warning units a feature of a proposed -belt system announced by Restraint Systems Ltd, Ii is jointly owned by...

3tang is the name given to an me-driven welder that has n added to the welding ipment produced by Max Arc ; It has an output of...

The hose and tube division of Alenco Industrial Components is now offering a wider range of Ermeto cold-drawn seamless steel...

A new method of marking transit packaging, ctaimed to enhance legibility and increase packing department productivity, has been...