T HIS Sunday some 250 drivers from all parts of the United Kingdom will compete to decide the 1966 Lorry Driver of the Year....

LN agreement has been concluded between 31. Cargo Distributors Ltd., principal istralian subsidiary of Transport Developnt...

HE Crowther group of companies has been acquired by British Road Services Ltd., with :ct from last Friday. Operating 46...

0Y Sunday evening (September 11) the title of Lorry Driver of the Year will le been settled for 1966. It could be any of the...

DEPRESENT1NG an extension of the .1-Nstandard Transit range, two new parcels vans announced by the Ford Motor Co. Ltd., have...

THE September 16 issue of COMMERCIAL MOTOR will be the first of three I consecutive special issues devoted largely to...

DISCUSSIONS between the Road Haulage Association and the Board of Trade have led to arrangements under which the hire purchase...

& VEHICLE turn-round operation involv ing the unloading and loading of 21420 ilk bottles is being achieved in little more tan...

part of their revised distribution system in which retail deliveries are made from headquarters and the bulk wholesale...

A COMPLETELY self-contained type of DisChil refrigeration system has been developed by Distillers Chemicals and Plastics Ltd.,...

Mainly to accommodate cam-braked axles, but also to simplify installation, the Primrose air-pressure load-transfer system for...

TWO 4,000-ton cellular container ships—tin first of their kind to be built in Britain—havt been ordered at a cost of Wm. by...

HE Scottish Deputy Licensing Authority, 1 Mr. L. A. Wells, heard an application at Cirkcaldy last week by W. D. Houston and...

MANY REVOCATIONS AND SUSPENSIONS IN SCOTLAND I N Glasgow on Monday Mr. A. Birnie, the Scottish Licensing Authority, asked five...

A GRANTOWN-ON-SPEY bus operator who pioneered services for skiers in the Cairngorms was successful last week in his objections...

A r LEEDS on Tuesday the Yorkshire deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. M. Gosnay, heard an application by Elliott Hauliers...

TN the final match of the annual cricket corn' petition by busmen for the Castrol Shield. London Transport (central road...

rehicles HAULAGE APPLICATI ONS uspended IF the five operators who appeared Jbefore the West Midland Licensing uthority, Mr....

as the new chairman of CIE on a part-time basis. He has been a director of CIE for the past nine years. Frank Lemass has been...

WE regret to record the deaths of Brig.-Gen Sir Harry Osborne Mance, Mr. Thomas Potts Mr. Arthur Thompson and Mrs. Evelyn Vick...

by Derek Moses "Token system will work—we will make it work", says Sunderland driver B US passengers are by nature reticent...

T HE general picture in the municipal passenger transport field this week is that the majority of busmen are working normally,...

T HREE independent members are to join Ministry of Transport officials and London Transport Board members and officers in the...

n ARLINGTON Corporation Transport Manager, Mr. William Mayes, has urged the Corporation to make a bigger contribution from the...

A THIRTY -THREE FOOT version of thc popular Leyland Atlantean double-deck bu: chassis is to be shown at the Commercial Motoi...

rrHE Western Welsh Omnibus Co. Ltd. is to close its depots at Port Talbot and Kenfig Hill. The company was in "a serious...

A NEW model in the tilt-cab FJ range will be one of the 27 Austin and Morris Thiele types to be exhibited at Earls Court his...

Thornycroft ALTHOUGH normally used as the basis for a fire/crash tender the Nubian made by Transport Equipment (Thornycroft)...

A FOUR-WHEEL-DRIVE version of the Chieftain Super Six has been announced by Albion Motors Ltd. The design is based on the...

BY A. J. P. WILDING AMIMochE, MIRTE FrliE, news that Fiat is to exhibit heavy 1 vehicles at the Commercial Motor Show for the...

Part 25—Three-line Braking: Dual Hand Control N an earlier article we discussed the changes In brake control, and spoke of...

A TER extensive research into the uses to which a fire appliance is put, Dennis Bros Ltd. of Guildford, in conjunction with the...

and publications Spray equipment cleaner D ESIGNED to clean and dry the fluid _L./passages of spray guns, fluid hose,...

)NLV FIVE GREASING POINTS )111 NEW FOUR-WHEELER CHASSIS VHICH ARE OFFERED N EIGHT BASIC MODELS E ODAY, the news that Bedford...

P. A. C. BROCKINGTON, ANI1MechE ElEATURES providing structural rigidity and promoting freedom from distortion by physical and...

A TER the spate of new cabin designs featured at the 1964 Commercial Motor Show and since, it is natural that there will be...

(COMMERCIAL MOTOR, igust 19) and the fact that it is now possible for him to sign his .me. Naturally, however, I do not agree...

A NUMBER of interesting exhibits will be featured at the Commercial Motor Show by Scammell Lorries Ltd. this year including a...

44 Reading shows the way with standee buses BY JOHN DARKER AMBIIIA ' , HERE is a tradition in politics that the voting...

NEW GUY HEAVIES FOR THE SHOW rr WO chassis will provide the main interest on the stand of Guy Motors Ltd., at the Commercial...

A i important feature of the forthcoming Commercial Motor Show will be the presence at Earls Court of a large number of...

View BY THE HAWK I Knight Retires " HEAR that one of the original Knights of the Road has just . retired. He is Ernest Hedley...

COMMERCIAL MOTOR September 9 1966 NORTH S HIPSHAPE and Bristol fashion is an expression which has been commonplace for...

F OR journalists specializing in industrial affairs and labour relations the last few months have been a golden age. Never has...

a haulier, ancillary user or bus operator may be, a knowledge of costing ilways needed and, moreover, the ability to apply it...

get a Government scolding about its exports it I will not be Dowty Group. In his latest annual review the I chairman, Sir...

"ARDIGANSHIRE, the strip-like county in the Central Welsh coast is a classic example of the problems facing bus lerators in...