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., . T HIS year marks a notable step in the progress of the Lorry . Driver-, ' of the Year Competition. Three additional...
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I N any industry the formative period is one which is regarded with the greatest affection. For many Midlanders Torn...
W HY are public cleansing officers so dedicated to their vocation? What is it about refuse that engenders so much enthusiasm?...
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A HAULAGE company who disregarded a normal user on an A licence, and ignored a warning from the Licensing Authority to carry...
A BRADFORD haulage contractor ri who had pleaded guilty to four charges of obtaining credit by fraud and one of obtaining...
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D OUBTS about the wisdom Of increasing fares in the face of diminishing passenger traffic were voiced at a meeting of...
A MAN who admitted using a new lorry in his haulage business before he applied for a carrier's licence, was warned by Mr. J. A....
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S INCE British Road Services applied unsuccessfully for an A licence for six articulated vehicles, to be based at Barnstaple...
MR. A. H. THomPsotv has resigned his directorship of W. P. Butterfield, Ltd. MR. D. MILLS has retired from the board of the...
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W IDESPREAD trade-crippling • bans on waiting vehicles in city streets may be triggered off by the publication, in Birmingham...
L ACK of enforcement of the law has given protection to unauthorized operation at the expense of licensed operators, it is...
A CONTRACT has been placed by the t public works department of Malaya for 70 Albion _Chieftain CH3AT tipper chassis. The...
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THE Milk Marketing Board were criticized by Mr. L. H. Shelton, of the Eastern Traffic Area, acting for the North Western Deputy...
A N application, for a li-ton vehicle on B licence, restricted to the carriage of goods for members of the Indian and Pakistani...
More Zlotys: Increased investment in transport in Poland is proposed in a five-year plan to be started next year. Swansea...
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FROM OUR OWN REPRESENTATIVE W ITNESSE,S supporting an application by British Road Services before Mr. Idris Owen, South Wales...
T WO out of four additional vehicles on A licence sought by McDonald's Transport, Broadsea Road, Fraserburgh, were granted in a...
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FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT M R. J. A. T. HANLON, Northern Licensing Authority, suggested at Newcastle upon Tyne, last Friday,...
JEWCOMERS to express operation, 111 Chapel End Coaches, Ltd., Nuneaton, were granted a licence to operate from Nuneatonto a new...
Companies Wirksworth Road 'Transport, Ltd. Cap. £4,000. Dirs.: C. F. Webster and MN. C. R. Webster, 13ouisham, Summer Lane,...
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'THE final sta g e of transfer from I special-A to A licences held by McKelvie arid Co. (B.M. and P.), Ltd., Barrhead, was...
A LTHOUGH there were no car trans1-71 porters in South Wales. an application by a newcomer, Mr. B. E. Patterson, for an A...
N O further action was taken by Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, Northern Licensin g Authority, at the resu m ed hearing of an in q uiry,...
BUT GRANT MADE QEVER AL licensin g offences were admitted, at Glas g ow last week, when Arneil Car Transporters, Ltd.,...
A HAULIER, who can neither read dTh nor write to any g reat extent, was warned by Mr. D. I. R. Muir, Metropolitan Licensin g...
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Late Changes to Road Traffic Bill Made by Government : Misgivings Allayed FROM OUR PARLIAMENTARY CORRESPONDENT I AST-MINUTE...
CZ T HERE is an urgent necessity for employers and employees to get together and to strive wholeheartedly for greater...
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VARIATIONS to B-licence conditions, V to include " g eneral scrap," for two vehicles of 7f tons, were g ranted to Mr. Joseph...
THREE A.E.C. Monarch Mk. VI I trucks bound for Northern Province Roadways, Ltd., Arusha, Tan g anyika, have been shipped from...
A ROAD convoy carrying 650 scientific instruments worth £250,000 was due to arrive in Moscow on Wednesday after a nine-day...
A NEW plant for the manufacture of g lass-fibre and artrite resins by Glass Yarns and Deeside Fabrics, Ltd., at Camberley,...
O NLY one of the four tippers which J. Lee (Haula g e), Ltd., Newcastle upon Tyne, sou g ht to have added to their A licence...
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By P. A. C. Brockington, A GREATER proportion of Coventry's population of 281,000 is believed to be employed in factories than...
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rA A NOVEL form of drawbar assembly has been developed for use with independent trailers by Carrimore Six Wheelers. Ltd.,...
A N application, by Siddle C. Cook, Ltd., Consett, to substitute a new articulated vehicle of 131 tons for a vehicle of similar...
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THREAT to PUBLIC HEALTH By Alan Smith, F.R.S.A. A LTHOUGH partisan interests have not been mute about the effect of...
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By Anthony Ellis W HY has the battery-electric vehicle been neglected so long for house-to-house refuse cellection? Apart from...
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By John F. Moon, A.M.I.R.T.E. B ECAUSE of its vice-free suspension, the Standard Atlas 10-12cwt. van makes a good basis for an...
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A LTHOUGH a Vehicle which earned - 1-3 . £4,300 a year showed a good rate of employment, it was not excessive, said Mr. L. H....
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BRITISH MUN NS FOR 3 ALITIES By -Man E. Barton, . . General Manager, Birmingham Salvage Department A LL members:of a...
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Political Conuilentary By JANUS M UCH as one would like to keep up with everything that is happening, events that may be of...
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r WANT By S. J. Burn, A.M.I.R.T.E., A.M.I.T.A., A.M.A.S.E.E. I N the municipal field, as . in commercial transport...
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An articulated trolleybus in Peking taking passengers to the city's zoo. The electric system is only three years old. 110...
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By Torn Walkerley F ACTORS which have governed the development of the ambulance in recent years have their origins in the...
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Allbodies, Ltd.. Dumballs Road. Cardiff. Applcyard of Leeds, Ltd., North Street, Leeds. Avon Bodies. Ltd., Millers Road....
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t .- I A NOVEL electric street-orderly vehicle to be used in con junction with bulk-collection vehicles has been produced for...
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T HE motor industry is well represented at the comprehensive British Exhibition which opens today at the Coliseum. New York,...
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D ELFGATES from cleansing authorities who have to carry refuse from city centres to distant disposal points will be interested...
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RE was a time, and not so long ago at that, when the local public library, a Victorian-Gothic edifice of gloomy splendour, was...
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WHAT is claimed to be the first "completely engineered military vehicle" has been produced by the American Ford Motor Co. for...
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W ITH the country now engaged in a large road-construction programme, the amount of haulage work to be done by local...
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friction; if this is high, they will lock themselves on, or if it is low, a falling-off will occur in the servo action. Patent...