BY S. BUCXLEY THE old argument is once again given an airing that trade and• industry operates fleets of vehicles with little...

From our Industrial Correspondent A CCORDING to Labour's argu ment, reducing the number of C-licence vehicles would relieve...

C OMMERCIAL vehicle operators may have their private driving licences taken away as a result of their vehicles infringing...

[ACTING swiftly to reports of the Labour Party's plans to take restrictive action in the C-licence field if returned to power,...

WITH the winding up of the First " General Assurance and Guarantee Co. Ltd. insurance concern, the Order for which took effect...

FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT THE official inquiry into the road &III age licensing system, which is -to be undertaken by a...

A TOP LEVEL reorganization of rA British Road Services was announced this week. A new body, the B.R.S. Federation, has been set...

THE new h e a d quarters of the St. Albans Sand and Gravel Co. Ltd. was officially opened this week at Cheshunt,...

Channel Crossing Report In Ministers Hands A DVANCE copies of the long-awaited rt report by British and French officials on the...

Linked to Transport B Y the end of the year the Government will be in a position to interlock the development of the ports,...

A N application by Evan Cook Ltd.. London, for a change of the normal user for 25 vehicles on B licenee wai refused last week...

THERE was strong opposition from seven coach operators and British Railways at Manchester this week to an application by...

T HE Minister of Transport has dismissed an appeal by the Dumfries County Council against the decision _Of the Scottish Traffic...

TWO Monmouthshire haulage com. 1 . panic were told on Tuesday of the confusion caused by having so many different conditions on...

THE Transport Tribunal, siting in London last week, allowed an appeal by a Gloucester caravan transporter company against the...

clear that Parliament took the view that efficient, reliable and adequate facilities could be provided only by a transport...

B US operators in districts wher railway services are withdrawn ar to be allowed to tow luggage trailer behind their vehicles,...

A BERFELDY MOTOR COACHES rA LTD., which operates bus services between Aberfeldy and Pittochry via Ballinluig, has warned Perth...

rLOSURE of uneconomic railway lines in Scotland under the Beeching " axe" would not automatically mean substantially...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT . 1-1 A WARNING to London Transport not to bring up again their proposals for higher...

E AST YORKSHIRE MOTOR SERVICES LTD. is to be informed that all its buses should be fitted with flashing indicators, and that...

TWO new additions have beej made to I the range of semi-trailer manufactured by Charles Pitt (Bartoi Stacey) Ltd. They are the...

rUY MOTORS (EUROPE) LTD. has ‘6-1 introduced a leasing scheme to enable operators to lease Guy vehicles on the most...

MEWS of encouraging increases in demand at home and abroad has been given by three major chassis manufacturers. Albion Motors...

A N unusual type of all-light-alloy tipping body has been produced by Bonallack and Sons Ltd., Basildon, Essex, the first...

NAEETINGS of the Institute of TransIVI port for the 1963-64 session include the presidential address on October 14, the...

FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT IT looks as though the European 11 Parliament may support the IRU's proposals for a maximum...

A N attachment for trolley jacks to allow them to be used for removing and fitting chassis units such as axles and gearboxes...

A VERSION of its portable Model PA, FAP high-pressure greasing unit operated by single-cylinder air-cooled petrol/TVO engine...

A NEW vehicle anti-theft device, called the Auto Lock, which is suitable both for cars and commercial vehicles, has been...

A METHOD of fastening which can ri save time and cost has been introduced by the Armstrong Patents Co. Ltd., Eastgate,...

I HEAR that a haulier in a well-known North Yorkshire training and stabling area has taken over a fleet of railway road...

HE phrase: "if a man fits into a niche, then he's doing what T , he wants to do; he's keen and that suits all of us"...

A T last year's Commercial Motor Show, the Standard Motor Co. Ltd. introduced its new 15 and 20 vans to replace the Atlas and...

Three Versions Available INDEPENDENT DRIVE to each of the two rear axles is a 1 feature of a Bedford TK with - Reynolds...

WRITES ‘Common Market transport may be very different from what is at present envisaged' A RRANGEMENTS recently concluded for...

" MINETY-FIVE per cent of these drivers have studied the new Highway Code; the remainder—mostly the older ones—are still...

.A REDUCTION of some 30 per cent in I — I the number of entrants in last Sunday's Stoke-on-Trent Lorry Driver of the Year...

W HEN 103 gas undertak'ngs, large and small, were merged !Filo the North Western Gas Board in 1949 the way was opened for the...

B "AUSE of frustrating delays in loading and unloading at customers' premises and at the docks, Arthur Wood and Co. (Transport)...

F OLLOWING a series of spectacular accidents involving runaway lorries, in which many fatalities resulted, in 1954-55, the...

T HE extent to which transport is a service industry is well exemplified in the operation of small vans. They are employed to...