WO WEEKS' time British Summertime ends, and we will be an the threshold of ter. The glorious long, hot summer, now gone, was,...

9 the past few weeks we have been ;y organising the Fleet Management lerence, and a good day is now u red. It is our 20th FMC...

BEDFORD COMMERCIAL Vehicle Division has won a £7.5m order from the British Ministry of Defence for 500 Bedford lorries. The...

TOM KING Secretary of State Transport congratulated Transport and Road Resit( Laboratory this week on its anniversary and said...

IRISH CUSTOMS officials who seized two articulated lorries from Northern Ireland (CM October 1) have been reprimanded for their...

IN HIS PRESIDENTIAL address, given to the Institution of Highv and Transportation at Cambridge last month, Michael Hardy col...

N EXPRESS freight carrier s operations in the UK on ay. The Independent ExCorporation plc (CM Octois the brainchild of four !r...

THE FIRST cruise seminar organised by ROADS, the southern based group of Road Haulage Association members set up in 1978, went...

THE PLAN to establi.sh Ramsgate as a major new Channel port has received a boost from French shipping company, Charles...

THERE are four weeks left before we close the entries for the Mark Vane Memorial Award for 1983. Nine entries have been...

THE TRANSPORT industry been too concerned with nology and not enough serving society, the new r dent of the Chartered Inst of...

MEDICAL CONSTRAINTS on the issuing of hgv licences are to become stricter, if notice is taken of the findings of a working...

TRANSPORT UNDER-Secretary Lynda Chalker has called for better responses to vehicle recalls. The figures for recall campaigns...

ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS and the road transport industry spend too much time fighting each other. Instead, their combined forces...

Edinburgh relief road A £26m Western Relief roe Edinburgh has been prop by the Lothian Regional Co to relieve congestion. The...

OWNER-DRIVER Eric Wood of Heywood, Lancashire, was clear operating a vehicle without a licence by the Bury magistrate the...

(UK) is to introduce a ked-down LT panel van this year called the Fleet, is intended solely for the - 1 market. lough the...

OPERATORS of refrigerated trailers using Thermo King freezer units can now benefit from a thermostatic device called...

A PLEA for disc brakes as soon as possible on heavy commercial vehicles was made by Terry Ball, technical director of Norfolk...

PHIL AYLIFF, former chief mechanic of the BRM formula one racing team, and latterly sales manager of Dunlop's Automotive...

- ALISTAIR BROWN has b made chief executive of C Forgings Division. He succe Anthony Fenton who is reti after 32 years' service...

K ALLEN (Motor Bodies) has completed a series of onedemonstrations of its prot range at Birmingham, Is, London and Norwich. il...

PREDICTED JOB losses for 25,000 London Transport workers and 75,000 workers in the passenger transport executives is one of the...

GLC aboLitio explained IN DEFENCE of the Governn proposals for public transpo London and the metropol counties, Transport Un...

VAN HOOL has announced details of its forthcoming range of coaches. Known as the T8, the line incorporates a host of new...

ES carrying pupils to and from a Kincardine academy are being crowded, it was claimed, as the Department of Transport ed...

LANCASHIRE County Council, in conjunction with British Rail and local bus operators, has extended its go-anywhere bus ticket...

EDINBURGH's bus drivers have come out strongly against the building of a £26m Western Relief Road for the city (CM p13)....

THE SCOTTISH BUS GROUP has revamped its image to try and restore its competitive edge over national and local private...

MAN-VW Truck and B1 Swindon, has announce coach dealer network is I MAN SR280 integral Ii coaches. In future MAN-VW will...

BEDFORD COMMERCIAL Vehicles has developed a new 16-tonne heavy duty front-engined export-only bus chassis, based on its TM...

s the aim of this body, - I held its first-ever ing in Brussels last . Graham Montgomerie :here to see if the 'old -sary...

automatic chassis lubrication systems are still widely used is a reflection on the inadequate sealing of many chassis moving...

That was the mood of the British team at the end of this international driving championship. Finely honed skills were not given...

INADEQUATE lubrication of commercial vehicle chassis bearings is a prime cause of high operating costs. Friction leads to...

how low can you get? 's what Leyland ted to find out about its cies' operating abilities w, low temperatures. . set up a test...

A BRAKING SYSTEM defect which in summer might result in nothing more serious than a quickening of the driver's pulse could be...

salt is blamed for ar from corrosion in this rbing report from than technical editor Bill pton iOSION is the culprit for an...

month's items were all iled at the joint igequip/Autoquip bition held last week at s Court ETIMES the most effective ; are the...

rER weather brings with it a Der of extra problems for perator and one of the most wenient is that of the diesel A/axing up or,...

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:ored foundation Penny Bazaar DmoRE is a name that I ate with London taxis, were built in the former Johnston factory in...

Volvo and Scania vehicles pulling tandem-axle box and tilt trailers to Italy, Austria and Germany. Each vehicle has twin wheels...

Over many years, Michelin have built a sound and solid reputation for economy and reliability Superb adhesion and savings on...

On the right track? THE HAWK professes puzzlement in your issue September 10. He cannot understand why Dyfed County Council...