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S C PACE fiction has become a reality in a decade. Yet concurrently road traffic congestion has increasingly become the most...
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Fewer Prohibitions In August ik/fINISTRY OF TRANSPORT vehicle 1Y1 examiners carried out spot checks on 13,651 heavy goods...
BY NORMAN H. TILSLEY IF they gave away weekly prizes for the 1 best performance in red tape procedure, I am sure this week's...
From our Industrial Correspondent N O sooner had the Minister of Transport made his confident forecast that liner trains would...
XTEXT Thursday (October 7) a small 1`11 party of members of the Transport Association, headed by their chairman, Mr. K....
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(BY COURTESY OF THORESEN CAR FERRIES) -IE international group of the Road iaulage Association, under the chairship of Mr. J....
AU1.11:RS in Scunthorpe are to start a plan to protect goods carried by road in the city and its immediate neighbourhood. From...
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did not realize the 1 -4 jeopardy they put hauliers in by not reporting faults on their vehicles, commented Mr. J. A. T....
A REORGANIZATION of the headquarters of the Ministry of Transport will take effect from next Monday (October 4). The Ministry...
Pointer's Expand Tanker Fleet: An order for six 5,000 gal.-capacity oil tankers has been placed by the Pointer Group of Norwich...
From our Political Correspondent S IGNS of unrest over transport policy among the left wing of the Labour Party became evident...
A T an executive committee meeting of the RI-IA on Wednesday, a resolution from the Birmingham sub-area requested that the...
of Dennis Bros. Ltd., Mr. T. H, Sharman. is relinquishing his appointment. Mr. Alan R. Stewart, a director, is to join shortly...
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FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ITHIN the next week or so the EEC Commission is due to present to Council of Ministers its...
to the extent to which TIR operates in Spain. In some cases it is thought that, apart from Barcelona, TIR operates to and from...
THE Perth area executive of the Scottish National Farmers' Union have been told that there arc no weighbridges available...
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Mr. H. E. Robson has been appointed chairman of the Traffic Commissioners and Licensing Authority for the Yorkshire area. He...
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LLOWING a meeting of a delegate onference of busmen, held in Seper, a show-down between the London sport Board and its busmen...
E Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co. has denied rumours lating in Oxfordshire that " there is to he wholesale...
D ETAILS can now be released of the passenger chassis being made available by Bristol Commercial Vehicles Ltd. for the open...
ri A MAJOR reorganization of services in the Herne Bay area of Kent was undertaken by the East Kent Road Car Co. Ltd. last...
Empress and Bella Venture: Under the heading Empress and Bella Venture " on page 85 of the guide to Touring Coach Bodies in...
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T HE final closure of King's Cross Coach Station is to take place on October 31. For several years now this station, used by...
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3IDE street in Durham City is now ised as a terminal by four . local bus res and as either a picking-up or Ming-down point for...
'VII IS is an appalling state of affairs and I have never Seen anything like it ". said the Metropolitan deputy Licensing...
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T HE revocation or suspension of the licences of Joseph Kimberley and Sons Ltd., of Newcastle, Staffs, under Section 178 of the...
I AM g oin g to take a chance and say your application can be g ranted." This was said by Mr. J. R. C. SamuelGibbon, Western...
TAI 0 applicants for Contract A licences to carry for Derbyshire Stone Sales were successful at Hanley last week, after...
IN the absence of key witnesses. an 1 application by Mr. S. W. J. Ostle, of Kirkby Stephen, Westmorland, for a variation of an...
A N application by Mr. T. E. Swainson, of Penrith, for B licences in respect of two tippers was g ranted last week by the...
T HE Transport Tribunal has made new rules which are published as Statutory Instrument No 1687 (1965) and are available from...
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lengths to which rival coach operators will go in their efforts to preserve their spective franchises was well illustrated in...
monthly traffic courts instituted Mr. John Else to deal specifically action 178 inquiries are becoming dilution in the West...
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Gresham Cooke Award For DDE Men 'HE Crompton Lanchester Medal and the Gresham Cooke Prize of the Institution of Mechanical...
PTO facilitate the production of its 1 0 Series commercial vehicles in developing countries, Ford of Britain is now able to...
N EW and improved trunk routes costing between £40m. and £50m. are to be provided between Humberside and the Great North Road...
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By P. A. C. Brockington, LST an output of up to 20 h,p. is equired for negotiating gradients ■ r acceleration—taking the case...
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IT was alleged this week that 150,000 I of the 13+ m. driving licence holders in this country have poor vision and ought not to...
Grinding Equipment-Part 4 WHEREAS the small garage or vehicle VV repair shop may be content with the twin-wheel grinder or...
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and Publications ctric Bandsaw METER operation is a feature of a new model single-speed hree-wheeled handsaw, introduced by...
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Job n Watts Honoured That the celebration of a 55th birthday can be a forward-looking and a vital affair was demonstrated last...
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By Norman H. Tilsley MOST every facet of export handling, plus road haulage and ;upped services which are so vital speeding...
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REGIONALIZATION REJECTED IN CONFERENCE DISCUSSION THE suggestion that the municipal bus I industry should " nationalize "...
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) NLY a handful of licences were revoked and a few more suspended during the 12 months up to the end of September 1964,...
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AEC A.E.C. Ltd., Southall, Middlesex ALL AEC passenger chassis are now fitted with an AEC dry-liner engine. the A69I or 505....
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IC COACH BODYWORK L ISTED and illustrated here in live main groups. arranged to permit comparison between vehicles of similar...
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. or how they brought the goods from Consett to Tomnavoulin O NE Saturday afternoon this summer a heavy articulated outfit...
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BY DEREK MOSES Rear engines gaining ground GROWING number of passenger vehicle operators are starting to comment on the...
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T HE position in the municipal bus industry today so far as the composition of individual makes is concerned must be very...
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D ESP1TE the pruning of rural bus services, and the falling traffic generally, there were actually more company buses in...
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By S. BUCKLEY, Assoc lost T A PPLICATIONS, techniques and human aspects of automation when applied to transport were discussed...
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s most advanced form it meant the itic carrying out of operations with man intervention. But man had endeavoured to augment the...
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f 358M. was spent in the UK during 1964 on travel by bus, coach and tram. From the same source as this information—the official...
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By George Wilmot Lecturer in Transport Studies, University of London Regional Studies—Merseyside MERSEYSIDE is at the...
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The editor is always pleased to receive letters on all aspects of the road transport industry. Contributors must Include their...