IS week, for the first time in 47 years, a private r haulier has been installed as president of the Institute of Transport....

loT president warns of inexpert chefs' in transport it will be on landing—or even if still in Monday by Mr. R. H. Farmer in his...

A TRANSPORT test has been launched by Lever Brothers and Associates Ltd and SPD Ltd., using specially designed containers and...

by the ' Government to study the practicability of a UK pallet pool is at present conducting a comprehensive investigation into...

TO provide, a basis for the shaping of the RH future publicity policy, a London reseal company has been asked to investigate...

NEGOTIATIONS have been comple between the Fish Merchants' Associat and British Road Services which will mean end of the Grimsby...

VOUR cross is a darned great big one," 1. Mr. J. D. Billington of British Road Services, chairman of the panel of experts,...

T HE whole question of the maintenance standards of goods vehicles had been exaggerated quite out of all proportion to the size...

Peter Walker sees Barbara Castle as 'Madame Guillotine' threatening the transport system MR S. Barbara Castle's plan for a...

Minister admits turning her back on Beeching plan's logic FROM OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDEA T HE road freight and passenger...

AN automatic vehicle identification system known as SAVIS is to be introduced shortly by Storno Ltd.. of Camberley. Jointly...

A NATIONAL survey of about 100 urgent road schemes required to speed up industrial raffle is being undertaken by a road...

the most difficult " parts of the Lancashire-Yorkshire motoray (M62)—the six-mile Pennine section from Iindy Hill near the...

'HE University of Glasgow Department of ' Extra-mural Education in collaboration with e Institute of Transport has organized...

William Dobbie, a Dundee man, has been recommended for the post of deputy general manager of Aberdeen Transport Department. He...

A BIG switch to high-capacity dualentrance single-decker buses is planned by Liverpool City Transport, where an existing order...

THE hearing (adjourned from July 29) of further applications for additional period return and express carriage facilities from...

A N important contract received by Bristol Commercial Vehicles Ltd. is for 40 RESL rear-underfloor-engined bus chassis for...

ORDERS worth more than £900,000 received by Duple Motor Bodies Ltd. following the Commercial Motor Show. include a large...

RURNLEY, Colne and Nelson joint transport undertaking carried 920,562 fewer passengers in the year ended March 31, 1966—a drop...

CENTRAL SMT Co. Ltd., a Scottish Omni bus Group company, has announced reorganization of routes in its area of Central Scotland...

M RS. Barbara Castle, Minister of Transport, flew from London Airport on Monday, accompanied by her chief scientific adviser,...

T HE Ceylon Transport Board has decided to standardize its fleet of buses. All future purchases will be confined to Mercedes...

SUBSIDIARY?' ASKS • COUNSEL rili E Road Traffic Act and the Companies ct defined "subsidiary" differently, Mr. R. Yorke...

S IMONSTONE TRANSPORT LTD., of Burnley, Lancs., had its appeal against the decision of the North Western deputy Licensing...

W HAT is a step-frame trailer? This was a question before the Transport Tribunal last week. The case, in which the Tribunal...

A BRISTOL haulage contractor who had prohibition orders issued against him in respect of some of his vehicles had since taken...

A N application by C. and J. (Agencies) • Ltd., Bristol, to add four vehicles to their B licence was granted at Bristol last...

THE Metropolitan LA last week issued awritten decision granting an application for the variation of a B licence by Van Oppen...

A NEWCASTLE upon Tyne firm of engineering contractors was last we granted five B licences by the Northe Licensing Authority,...

MR. J. PALLFTT, who appealed against 1 ' arefusal of Leicestershire County Cour to grant him planning permission to set 14...

RRITISH RAILWAYS BOARD submitted to the West Midland deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. R. A. Hall, at Birmingham last week, that...

'y Ian Sherriff, miTA 'T'S a great day for the Irish—well, almost. This week the Ministry of Transport timated that the...

THE Italian road haulage association (FAM) has issued a reminder regarding assistance which foreign carriers can obtain from...

JOSEPH STAPLETON, of Wainfleet (Lincs.), was fined £5 with endorsement of licence at Spilsby Magistrates' Court for using a...

IltRITISH hauliers operating in Belgium have been requested to note that the following working conditions apply to foreign...

AL THOUGH the BMC 5.1-litre turbocharged diesel did not make its anticipated debut at Earls Court—to take its place with the...

r E Road Transport Training Board should have its headquarters in London but, to keep costs down, preferably not in central...

'TRAILERS and semi-trailers, tippers, I. dumpers, special bodies in steel and alloy, hydraulic gear, power-operated loaders,...

ADRIAN MURPHY last week became the 1966 Fork Truck Driver of the Year. After coming second in his class, Adrian, who works for...

A US CONTRACT worth nearly Sim. ha been received by Cravens Homalloy Ltd for 350 Sea-Trailers for Integrated Containe Services...

O NCE the major part of a general haulage fleet has changed over from tramp to trunk services, and the onedriver-one-vehicle...

The 1966 Export Services Exhibition reviewed by John Darker, AMBIM T HE second Export Services Exhibition at Olympia this week...

uOLLOWING the successful operation of a 6,000-loaf bulk bread transporter on a BMC 7-ton chassis, W. C. Robertson (Carlisle)...

FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT D ESIGNED to make dock congestion a thing of the past, the lorry traffic procedure built in to...

and publications 'Safety pins' L ATEST product to come from Britax (London) Ltd. is termed the "safety pin of the packaging...

BY THE HAWK Modest Estimate T HE 500 road hauliers and other interested parties who attended last week's open meetin g of the...

W HAT Mrs. Barbara Castle gives with one hand she sometimes appears to take away with the other. There was reassurance for road...

A LMOST all the interest at the Paris Show this year is restricted to the stands of French manufacturers. Berliet and Unic have...

all round would be the only way of obtaining automatic brake distribution according to load O N a recent visit to Fr. Kotz and...

D ESPITE the lavish Press space accorded to industrial relations and productivity questions in recent months, much of it...

lobs mystery VHERE DO all the good transport jobs go—or perhaps not so iuch where but HOW do they go? My husband, a transport...

-IAVE just got around to reading the issue of COMMERCIAL )TOR of September 23 and must tell you how impressed I was h the...

COMMERCIAL MOTOR of August 26 and to page 72 under the heading "New Companies." This is inaccurate in that it gives the name of...

Bristol (COMMERCIAL MOTOR October 7) gives an unfortunate and inaccurate picture of my views on Type Approval and the...

Part two M ANY and complex are the problems confronting the newly appointed board responsible for industrial training in the...

major engine overhaul, I'm dead against turbocharging on the score that it reduces reliability and service life. What is the...

A The address is: Oy Suomen Autoteollisnus AB., Helsinki, Finland.

four attics, two threewheelers, four rigids, three tippers and two 5 cwt. vans. Is it an economic proposition to carry on with...

A Any figure given in reply to such a question as this needs some qualification. Thus there is a high proportion of the 1.3m....

coaches, divided into two classifications: municipal undertakings; private and nationalized undertakings? A It is difficult to...

Summit Transport Ltd. Cap.: £100. Subs. : J. Herbert and T. A. Herbert, 156 Strand. WC2. Sec.: T, A. Herbert. Neitrip Ltd....

IN order to cope with the expansion opportunities the directors of Victory Transport have decided to raise more capital....

T HE written examination with a number of questions to be answered in a certain time has always held pride of place as the ■...