A drastic scaling down of the NFC's parcels companies is' foreshadowed by .the Prices and Incomes Board whose report "Costs,...

Bitter pill for planners and parcels staff from our Parliamentary correspondent O The National Freight Corporation must earn...

• With a Commons debate on the Industrial Training Levy (Road Transport Order) 1970 in prospect (CM December 25,1970), Mr Enoch...

• The National Guild of Transport Managers has asked the Minister for Transport Industries to introduce a scheme for the...

• The further concessions under the drivers' hours regulations announced by Mr John Peyton, Minister for Transport Industries...

• The International Lecture of the Institute of Transport Engineers will be presented on January 21 at the Royal Society of...

• The British Institute of Management's new Centre for Physical Distribution Management has announced the following one-day...

by David Lowe • Transport Association members at their meeting in London on Tuesday voted unanimously during their private...

fears of delay • Fears have been expressed by some operator representatives that marker plates which become a legal...

• A Chesterfield (Derbyshire) firm, Mullan Brothers Ltd, told CM this week that it had decided to close down the road haulage...

• Proposals have been issued by the Department of the Environment which will result in new plating and testing regulations The...

• Newspaper reports of a possible bid for Dennis Bros Ltd by Capitarium, the company formed by Mr Frank B. Ford which took over...

• The AA is preparing a case to submit :o the Chancellor for the reduction of motor - uel tax in his April budget by bd a...

from top down Du-al Furniture Ltd has just placed in service this 1800 cu ft capacity Leyland Laird 1200 pantechnicon; a...

• Angled Joloda tracks enable pallets to be loaded at the rear of a 123 cu ft air-freight van operated by Johnson's (Air...

• Eastwood/UPM Ltd, Bilsthorpe, Nottingham, marketing subsidiary of J. B. Eastwood Ltd, claimant t o being the largest egg...

• At a time when many van operators are thinking in terms of cheaper, short-life bodywork, one of the biggest express carriers...

• A 30-ton-gross articulated outfit is daily undertaking a 420-mile round trip as a dual-purpose vehicle that in effect...

A simple guide to decimals in transport • How do you write a decimal cheque? • Will conversion of wage rates to decimals...

• Complete van bodies can now be built in stainless steel using cladding and frame sections produced by Stewart Fraser Ltd,...

rationalization of parcels activities would pose many problems with manpower. The first step was to draw up a plan for the...

continued from page 25 and proper persons. But stipulating membership of one of the five bodies was felt to be a more...

• North Western Road Car Co Ltd axed several unremunerative rural bus services in the Peak district of Derbyshire on January 1....

• The International Union of Public Transport (UITP) congress will take place at Rome this year, May 2-8. The subjects of...

• A Private Member's Bill to empower the Greater London Council to set up further transport users' committees concerned...

• An application for• a considerable number of cuts to bus services in the Border area has been made by Western SMT Co Ltd. It...

• A new series of holidays designed especially for retired people is now being marketed by Wallace Arnold Tours Ltd. The...

• Due to continually increasing demands for a quick and efficient accident repair service, Plaxtons (Scarborough) Ltd has...

• The success of London Transport's switch to decimal currency largely depends on the continued widespread circulation of the...

• The scheduled mileage operated by London Transport's buses is to be cut from about 198 million last year to 192m in 1971....

• Local advisory committees are to tie set up by SELNEC Passenger Transport Authority to enable passengers to comment and...

• In February the North West Traffic Commissioners will hear an application by Ribble Motor Services Ltd to increase fares....

• Terms for a working agreement between SELNEC Passenger Transport Executive and Lancashire United Transport Ltd, have been...

• Tyneside Passenger Transport Authority is considering the imposition of a complete smoking ban in its buses. • The Northern...

• Forty women who normally travelled on two or three buses to work at an East Kilbride factory hired a bus one week to make...

• An instruction by the Metropolitan LA, Mr D. I. R. Muir, that confirmation of maintenance arrangements must be made available...

• A private limited company whose chief object is marketing National Coal Board shale applied for their own operator's licence...

• Mr R. H. Saunders, a long-distance, lorry driver, of Court Close, Hambury, was partially successful when he appealed to Mr...

licence curtailed • At a public inquiry under Section 69 (1) of the Transport Act 1968 in Birmingham last week, Mrs B. P....

• An application by Mr F. Cavanagh of Walthamstow was heard last week by Metropolitan LA, Mr D. I. R. Muir, for 20 vehicles and...

• As a result of four overloading offences, the North of Scotland Milling Co Ltd, Inverurie, was called before Mr A. B. Birnie,...

• A case of overloading against Charles Poulter Ltd was adjourned sine die last week at Wells Street magistrates' court. For...

National officers of the National Guild of Transport Managers were elected at a meeting in London on Saturday. Seen here with...

We record with regret the deaths of Harry William (Bill) Whale and David Wyatt. Mr Whale, 71, was a joint founder with Sir...

• "Bodybuilders are our customers and any competent bodybuilder is a potential customer. The kits of Clark aluminium...

• Operators of Ford Transit and Bedford CF chassis are now able to buy a truck van body from York Trailer's branch factories....

• Bedford KM tractive units with Detroit Diesel engines and Fuller transmissions are now being sold in Australia. According to...

• A method of producing rigid polyurethane insulating foams in-situ without the use of expensive complicated foaming machines...

• The 300th signatory has just recently put his name to the Ford Motor Co Ltd Bodybuilders' Code, which came into operation...

• Refrigerated bodywork is now being offered for the first time by Barham Bodies Ltd, of Motspur Drive, Northampton, in...

• A fleet of mobile workshops has been imported by UMO Plant Ltd of Letchworth Herts, to service its fleet of contract hire...

Last Friday the South Midlands district of BRSL lifted transport and distribution managers from their natural environment and...

CM's recent story about coach operation in and around Tredegar seems to have raised some Welsh ire. When a Scot calls a Welsh...

I've just had a note from a haulage engineer Who is irate about something completely different: a letter from an engineering...

to reverberate until—and perhaps—beyond—its passing into law. NALGO, a party to setting up national negotiating machinery for...

Driving a bus is easier than driving a car, according to Dundee's latest clippie turned driver. Mrs Elizabeth Brindley has a...

That lively PR agency Woolf, Lang, Christie and Partners which occupies offices in High Holborn (and which numbers Fiat among...

Disappointed? Not us Has it eVer occurred to you that some people have all the bad luck? Is it just a coincidence? I raise...

I read with great interest the article by Mr T. Normanton MP (CM January 1) and desire to make the following comment. It was...

Your recent editorial on driving hours and record keeping was most timely but I would go much further, I would rather see a...

• Apart from VBRA members relatively few people know very much about the Vehicle Builders and Repairers' Association. But...

A CONSEQUENCE of today's greater number of diesel-engined than petrolengined commercial vehicles in operation is that there has...

IT HAPPENED at the Purfleet, Essex, Goods Vehicle Testing Station just a few weeks ago. In an inspection pit a tester was...

w hen you order a body MANY BODYBUILDERS take into full account the need for eventual body repair and maintenance in their...

bodies and while the Neville design in light-alloy with replaceable 18in. U-shaped body sections is considered a "breakthrough"...

future NUMBER future NUMBER IN recent years a number of progressive furniture removers and warehousemen have taken the plunge...

Mr E. W. Cheesman, White's Portsmouth manager, who is shortly moving to the Botley premises, spends much of his time...

EXTENDING the frameless van body of a semi-trailer and equipping it with new running gear to exploit a change in the...

NUMBER generation plastics have bodywork potential by Gordon Crabtree ONE of the main problems in the use of reinforced...

• Many changes will follow the introduction of the Industrial Relations Act, which is expected to be on the Statute Book early...

bodies need muscle by David Lowe Mint TA WA NTED: A van body constructed in such a way that the whole of the payload can be...

slab or spray A leading bodybuilder's assessment of insulation methods by Paul Brockington, MIMechE IN the field of insulated...

A BODYBUILDER strikes a knotty problem in meeting a customer's specification and either hasn't the skilled staff or the time to...

by Tim Hoare WALK along any busy high street and you cannot help but notice the extensive use of side-loading facilities on...

in the right direction HAPPILY for the removers' men the massive furniture of past days is disappearing and, while ordinary...

Making your own history by Janus I t was and no doubt still is one of the favourite maxims of Sir Reginald Wilson that...

matters by John Darker AM BIM -- Transport management in Japan: Nippon Express JAPANESE transport management faces as many...

by Les Oldridge, AIRTE, ANAIMI The recovery of disabled vehicles (2) THE TOWING of broken-down articulated vehicles poses...

BROMSGROVE College of Further Education is strongly developing road transport studies in the West Midland region. The College's...

The next seven days from January 15 to 21. FRIDAY NGTM (Northern) meeting. Elephant Hotel, St Sepulchre Gate, Doncaster, 7 pm....