Within a few years operators of heavy trucks will have not only a choice of makes and configurations of vehicle but a new...

• A Cambridgeshire haulier under pressure from the Transport and General Workers' Union for a large pay increase has issued...

• An £18m. chain of nine transport terminals offering extensive facilities for repair, maintenance, servicing and secure...

• Although the trade union side of the National Negotiating Committee for road haulage has refused to meet the employers to...

• Time spent by hauliers' staffs in compiling the information required for the Road Haulage Association's new cost and...

• The use of garage staff as drivers and conductors, the employment of part-timers, and recruitment, for the first time, of...

• Sunderland's bus tokens-3m of them —will have to be scrapped. This is because the new decimal penny, which is already...

Mr. David Webster, one of the Conservative front bench spokesmen on transport, died suddenly on Wednesday. He was 45 and MP for...

• Scottish shipping agents and exporting firms have shown a keen interest in the new cargo service to be put in operation from...

continued from page 19 In addition, the Peterborough agreement presented to Knowles Transport had since become more onerous. A...

• Local authorities should be required to give precise details of the extent of traffic regulation orders when they are...

Sir Henry C. Johnson, chairman of the British Railways Board, is to be the guest speaker at the first annual luncheon of the...

• Members of the Institute of Transport. (Metropolitan section) were able to further their computer knowledge this week when...

• A number of exhibits at the Inventions and New Products Exhibition—LINPEX—held in London this week are directed at commercial...

• Normandy Ferries can now accommodate self-drive vehicles land vehicles which can be driven, such as excavators and mobile...

• Total sales of Bedford commercial vehicles in 1968 were 6.2 per cent higher than in 1967 at 97,484 units, with light vans...

• When the Transport Act 1968 became law an announcement was made that tne Road Traffic Regulation Act 1967 would be reprinted...

• Mols-Line, the subsidiary of the United Steamship Company of Copenhagen (DFDS), is carrying an increasing volume of...

• The growing challenge to road haulage of the rail Freightliner service is highlighted in Transport for industry, the summary...

• A payload of 7 tons 9cwt of temperaturecontrolled meats can be carried by a BMC Laird 1160R 13-ton g.v.w. machine recently...

II Fork truck specialist L. Lipton Ltd. has apened a new depot at Unit No. 3, St. Andrews Trading Estate, Avonmouth, Bristol....

IP Taskers Trailers have received three orders to a total value of over £500,000. They comprise 1,100 trailer chassis of 5 ton...

• The education and training committee of the Freight Transport Association is con sidering the possibility of running courses...

• Plans to build a new passenger-vehicle ferry for the Stranraer-Larne service at a cost of more than £2m have been submitted...

• As a further step in its plant expansion programme, Kaye Goodfellow and Co. Ltd. is opening a new depot in Wrexham, Denbighs....

A NEW 40ft long general-purpose freight container, designed to allow maximum unrestricted side access as well as normal end...

CLYDE Port Authority is opening its new £2.5m Greenock container terminal in midJanuary, bringing a new transportation pattern...

continued from page 19 includes the use of a very large skid-pan. Fitters will receive classroom training, practical workshop...

R. St. C. Sandal!, 44, has been appointed secretary of the National Bus Company: D. W. Glassborow, 48, chief planning and...

from our industrial correspondent • Fresh unrest in Britain's companyowned bus services is feared following last week's Prices...

• New zonal fares, approved by Sunderland transport committee to replace the existing flat-rate fare, were brought into...

by Derek Moses • With the news that the Transport (London) Bill is expected to receive the Royal Assent in July. the row...

*The simplified ''four fares" plan for Birmingham City Transport buses (CM last week) was postponed by the city's transport...

• Production of the Metropolitan-Superior export bus body (CM September 8 1967) has now begun—in Cammell Laird's factory at...

• The suggestion by transport consultant Mr. John Hibbs that the Edinburgh-London summer coach service might be diverted ....

• A demand for high productivity bonuses for one-man bus operations was placed before employers at yesterday's meeting of the...

• London's bus garages could be turned into "super repair depots" for all sorts of vehicles, says an article in the current...

• "Any manufacturing firm or service which hopes to maintain its position in a competitive market must closely watch its field...

• A strike which would have crippled weekend bus services in five areas of the North East was narrowly averted after peace...

• The Scottish Traffic Commissioners • • have refused to approve all of the fares • • increases applied for by the Scottish Bus...

• Complaints have been made to Newcastle upon Tyne Corporation transport department that drivers and conductors who turned up...

• When Mr. T. H. Campbell Wardlaw, appearing on behalf of Larrow Transport (Northern) Ltd. at a public inquiry in Newcastle...

• Rodger (Builders) Ltd., of Earlston, was granted a B licence for six tippers formerly on C licence by the Scottish LA, Mr. A....

• Having operated three vehicles under short-term licence granted on the first day's hearing in November, Gilbraith Tankers...

• In a written decision, the Transport Tribunal has refused the appeal of John Hill and Sons (Walsall) Ltd. against the action...

• At Carlisle on Monday the Northern LA removed seven vehicles from the B licence and two from the A licence of J. Johnston and...

• Introducing his successor, Major-General Sir John Potter, the Yorkshire Licensing Authority, Mr. H. E. Robson, commenced...

Hanomag link? from a special correspondent • West Germany's problem of too many lorry makers chasing a limited market has...

• A warning that types of fire extinguish ers carried by large numbers of van drivers and motorists can be a serious health...

• First production models of the Dockwalloper, York Trailer's new container-bodied city delivery van, are now being completed...

• An advanced three-day course on the electrical equipment of commercial and public service vehicles is to be held on February...

• Two of the AEC goods vehicles and the AEC Sabre and Guy Conquest (Daimler Roadliner as marketed on the Continent) to be seen...

• Figures published by Petroleum Information Bureau show that oil consumption in the United Kingdom continues to rise. Demand...

• After negotiations lasting over two years an amalgamation has finally been arranged between the Motor and Cycle Trades...

• The annual conference of the Institute of Traffic Administration will be held this year in London, on May 9-10. The...

• During a lecture given by Mr. I. D. G. Lee, managing director, and Mr. A. B. Hall, technical manager, of the Finnish Plywood...

• A batch of Merriworth 12-metre TIR tandem-axle semi-trailers is being supplied to the Dutch haulage concern of N. de Groot,...

by Handyman Manpower, maintenance and the MoT (26) • Much unscheduled time in workshops caused by damage to vehicle or...

HE LAST part of the 1936 Public Service rehicle (Conduct of Drivers. Conductors and assengers) Regulations, still concerned...

GAE DOR A new workshop has been added to the facilities offered by Gaedor Ltd. at Newport. Mon. The workshop is separate from...

TECHNICIANS OF LEYLAND GAS TURBINES LTD. OUTLINE THE ESTABLISHED AND POTENTIAL MERITS OF THE GAS TURBINE IN COMPETITION WITH...

Corporation department covers passenger services, general municipal transport and MoT test facilities by Ashley Taylor,...

foday will undoubtedly be a pleasurable )ccasion for Ronald Pochin, managing Erector of Ferodo Ltd., Chapel-en-le-Frith, 'or he...

The Young Enterprise organization aims to give young people an insight into business problems by allowing them to form and...

One of the most blood-chilling facts to come out of the AA's survey of drugs and driving (published in the latest issue of...

Doctors seem clearly at fault in not making it a practice to warn patients of the likely side-effects of prescribed...

Now we know where all those extra forms are coming from. Since 1958, when the Civil Service was cut to 377,600 from the...

Even if the new report is only a summary, as it is described, it ought to indicate sufficiently clearly whether the...

Museum piece? field consignment weight is the most significant factor although it explains only 7 per cent of the distribution...

No. 4 by lain Sherriff II Despite the diligence of the Traffic Commissioners when examining applications For public service...

Your November 15 issue mentioned the possible training of women to drive London buses. I marked the article "20th Century"! The...

As the suppliers of the Ford D500 Caetano 23-seater coach .to Hicks Coaches of Accrington, Lanes, and as sole concessionaires...

am compiling a history of Morris Commercial Cars Ltd., and would like to make an appeal, through your journal, for any...

from the PIB THE Prices and Incomes Board report "Productivity Agreements in the Road Haulage Industry" is full of dynamite...

replaced my old 20-ton-gross sixwheeler. My new vehicle is a three-axle artic plated for 24 ton gross and its weekly mileage...

THE IMPACT of the grant/levy system of the Road Transport Industry Training Board has been slow in being felt in road transport...

Safety Code for Handling industrial Solvents, originally compiled in 1964, has now been published. The Safety Code follows the...

A 60/65W twin-filament tungsten-halogen bulb for car headlamps, giving a wide concentrated beam of high power, has been...

From Hefla come two warning lamps. The SWBL2 is a combination amber-flasher warninglamp and torch, the amber flashing section...

Of particular interest to light vehicle operators is a front-end alignment lift introduced by Castro!. The lift will accept...

A reduction in wheel shimmy and an elimination of knocking or hammering of the bearing surface are among the advantages claimed...

Aiphone Communication Systems Ltd. has announced a telephone amplifier, the GA.50, a successor to the GA.30. The GA 60, fully...

Staples are fired in twothousands of a second by the new Industrie 350 pneumatic tacker from Industrial Stapling and Packaging...

Of especial interest to express coach operators is a range of luggage labels introduced by Norprint Ltd. The 10i-in long label...

Complete wall-mounted, hot, airless-spray systems can now be supplied by Berk Ltd. from modular pump units, heaters and gun...

P.M.G. Thorpe Ltd., part of the Britax-Excelsior Group, has developed a fully transistorized electronic interrupter unit for...

Brown-Boveri has introduced new VHF/UHF FM mobile radio telephone set into its high frequency field. One of the outstanding...

\tirith Ron Cater/ Although much discussion has taken place about the brake efficiencies required under the Plating and...

An hydraulically operated universal grinding machine, designed to manufacture shafts and similar work pieces to a high degree...

he British Standards Institution as published a revised form of ;S 1435 covering "rubber hose, /ire-reinforced, for oil suction...

A second standard introduced is one for pulley blocks for use with synthetic fibre ropes (metric units) and is covered in BS...

From a special nut designed to beat the battery thief has stemmed a whole range of anti-theft devices. They are introduced by...