FROM OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT NAOUNTING pressure is being exerted from within the Labour Party for a clear statement of the...

conference, at the Grand Hotel, Brighton, October 3-5, have now been sold. Forward-looking Paper for R.H.A. Conference "T AKING...

THE Ministry of Transport has I now replied to the Road Haulage Association's request for a vehicle noise demonstration. The...

THE Traders Road Transport Associa tion is waiting with considerable interest to see what decision is made on an important...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT E question of whether there should be any compensation to private road aauliers in the event...

'E novel recovery vehicles of three !ifferent types are to be used to clear m-down vehicles in the Dartfordeet tunnel under the...

'Whatever the load, we will design and build a semi-trailer to carry it' W E used this phrase to close our previous page of...

From John Moon, Frankfurt, Wednesday. ZING the six months to June 30 is year the profit, before taxation, e Transport...

O UTUNING the advantages of aluminium construction applied to road tankers, at an open day on Monday arranged by Gloster...

Macdonald, has reserved decision revoked the B ie held by. Kartiwyte Transport Ltd., ickney, London. The company had ed to...

reserved decision the Scottish deputy censing Authority has granted don Transport Co. Ltd. an A licence Four vehicles and four...

decision, granted application of Mr. H. Myers, of al Auction Mart Ltd., to put two vehicles and two artics on B licence...

A LLEGATIONS by objectors that an rA Essex haulage partnership had illegally operated four vehicles without discs or licences...

E North Western deputy licensing estithority, Mr. A. H. Jolliffe, was that he had not been given the mation or the help to...

RE is yet another large car trans)rter application pending-accord) this week's Metropolitan Area lications and Decisions"....

F OLLOWING evidence that maintenance facilities had been substantially improved, the North Western deputy Licensin g Authority,...

T HE Metropolitan Licensin g Authority, Mr. D. I. R. Muir, has refused the application by Rail Road Distribution Ltd. for ei g...

I N Edinbur g h last week Hutchinson's Coaches (Overtown) Ltd. was partly successful in an application to the Scottish Traffic...

use of Portolite collapsible transart tanks was criticized by Mr. card Jones, objecting on behalf of vate hauliers to an...

Northern Licensing Authority, J. A. T. Hanlon, granted two chides on A licence in Carlisle ;day to Joseph Wills of Greystone...

London branch of Gardner Engines (Sales) Ltd., on the retirement of Mr. G. Sutcliffe. Mr. D. C. Holland has taken up the post...

W E regret to record the death of Mr. Maurice Fernand Cary Wilks, chairman of the Rover Co. Ltd. since 1962. Mr. Wilks, who was...

New Strachans Double-deckers for Scottish Independents A FLEET of double-decker buses built in the new Hamble factory of...

c URRENT versions of the 12-seat Austin Omnicoach and Morris Minibus are being fitted with new forwardopening side windows to...

T HE capacity of the four-cylinder petrol engine fitted in Bedford 10/12and 15/17-cwt. vans has been increased from 1,508 c.c....

A NEW joint sales and service organi zation to market a combined range of commercial vehicles in seven European countries has...

four standard types of body T i otred by Palmer Coachbuilder Ltd. for the Thames Clearway chassis (The Commercial Motor, July...

A LIGHT-ALLOY tipper body, specirA ally equipped for the transport of graded industrial and domestic fuels and discharge by...

4EW series of light-duty vehicles, styled cabs and improved diesel is have been announced by G.M.C. and Coach Division of...

.1 - 3. A SINGLE - DECK express p.s.v., a dual-purpose ambulance and a road/ rail container are the three subjects chosen for...

Teaching the young dog old tricks YEAR BY YEAR, as the older hand retires from the vehicle repair business, there goes with...

Have you an idea that it is worth passing on to other readers ? It must relate to maintenance practice. If a panel, on which...

RENOWNS FOR NOTTINGHAM: Nottingham Corporation has ordered 35 A.E.C. Renown low-height double-decker bus chassis as part of its...

Vehicle Cleaning: A new industrial maintenance department to handle expanding business in the supply of products and equipment...

and Publications lge Door Unit improved version of the Glydover Operator overhead rage door unit has been developed by the...

W design of road spring—the Goliath—developed by Aropolitan Springs Ltd., is claimed to give an improved and also a longer...

T HE title of Lorry Driver of the Year for 1963 goes to 30-year-old Express Dairy driver Joe Dakin, of Pinner. A class winner...

IRON an operator l feel that ments won't help us the suggested amend very much . ." Havard: I propose to start off with the...

Who Buys Used Vehicles? R EGARDING the article by Norman H. Tilsley in the series " A Guide to Used Vehicle Purchase ", pub ....

. Buckley, Assoc. Inst. T. H OW much will it cost to run? A reasonable question to ask regarding any commercial vehicle—new...

I WAS interested to learn that Sunderland Corporation I have now fitted rear route number indicators to their " one-man "...

WRITES . . uncomfortably like a satirical ;rody of trade union doublethink' HIEF among the impressions left by the Trades...

By n F. Moon, S OME day, I hope, a British manufacturer will bring out a conventional type of normal haulage vehicle with a...

BY THE TECHNICAL EDITOR A S referred to briefly on page 9 of last week's issue, Maschinenfabrik AugsburgNtirnberg A.G.,...

By S. Buckley Assoc. Inst T. 7 week the cost of operating trailers was discussed in licular relation to the benefits to be...