With 17 factories producing six different makes of commercial and passenger vehicle and a host of power units, components and...

British Leyland's truck and bus division empire, run from Leyland by Mr. Ron Ellis, former general manager of Leyland Motors...

only31years away In an exclusive interview, British Leyland chiefs take a long look into the future Lord Stokes: chairman and...

meet to GI level British Leyland Motor Corporation has advised Commercial Motor that at some date in the future the truck and...

by A. J. P. Wilding MIMechE, MIRTE There can be no doubt that the work done in the past 25 years and that currently being...

[ 1The L long-distance runner by lain Sherriff, MITA When the man who claims to be the longest long-distance haulier in...

and now it's full throttle into the seventies! FRIENDLY FIRST RATE SERVICE • The Marshall Group straddles the eastern region...

by R. D. Cater, AMInstBE Do makers really do enough to ensure that their new models will prove reliable? They certainly...

The importance which the National Freight Corporation attaches to co-ordination of its activities in the carriage of parcels...

• The National Freight Corporation has this week detailed the people and the organization by which it intends to co-ordinate...

'charity' cheque from our political correspondent • Mrs. Barbara Castle, Minister of Employment and Productivity, is to be...

Transport and its associated industries were well represented in the Queen's Birthday Honours List published on Saturday. Of...

• The Road Transport Industry Training Board has amplified its proposals to Mrs, Barbara Castle, Minister for Employment and...

• Most of the inspectors appointed to hold public inquiries into traffic regulation orders are between 67 and 72 years of age....

• The RHA's agricultural hauliers group has recommended a scale of demurrage charges to become effective as from June 1, 1969:...

saving special Bedford • Vauxhall Motors Ltd. special installation division and the Scottish Gas Board have co-operated to...

• The first Yorkshire RTITB centre, which was officially opened in Bradford on Thursday of last week, is being run by the...

• Applicants for operators' licences may not have to supply details of their past record of convictions and GV9s extending over...

• Tories and Liberals tried without success last week to reduce the increase in petrol duty brought in at the time of the...

Edinburgh by lain Sherriff • The excitement at the end of the Le Mans 24-hours race was almost equalled at the Edinburgh LDoY...

H ighway Code by James Millen • Londonderry was a good, robust Irish round. At the end of the day all concerned were entitled...

by Ron Cater • After being held for a number of years at the AEC works at Southall, the London round Sunday to the MoT testing...

• Chris Hope of Kraft Foods Ltd., was the overall winner of the Fleetwood LDoY round held last Sunday. Mr. Hope was docked only...

• P. J. Ayres and Sons Ltd. was fined four guineas, with two guineas costs, at Watford magistrates' court on Tuesday. The...

by David Lowe Prague conference THE organizing committee of KOMBITRANS (International Conference on Combined Transport)...

• To facilitate the movement of holiday traffic the Ministry of Transport of the Federal Republic of Germany has prohibited...

• The Minister of Transport has made a grant of £2,707,364 to the Corporation of London towards the estimated cost of...

• Work will start soon on building the third stage of the Tilbury Docks Approach Road. Mr. Marsh has authorized Essex county...

• Operators applying for vehicle tests at the Edmonton, London, test station find they have to wait longer than expected to get...

F. K. Pointon has been elected chairman of the Public Transport Association in succession to T. W. H. Galley. Mr. Pointon is a...

whether to set up Passenger Transport Authorities in Scotland, said Mr. William Ross, the Scottish Secretary in the Commons...

• A Tory bid to remove ancillary equipment from the unladen weight of commercial vehicles was not pressed to a vote this week...

• A unit is being established at MIRA, financially sponsored by the Public Transport Association and the Scottish Road...

• Glasgow Corporation transport—Scotland's largest municipal transport undertaking is sub-standard in its service to the...

• Nears Travel and Tours Ltd., Stanley Road, Teddington, has acquired Garner's Coaches Ltd., South Ealing Road, South Ealing,...

• One-man operated buses will go into service in most parts of Dunbartonshire later this year after the acceptance on June 12...

• Eight 42-seater buses were destroyed in a fire which broke out at an Ulsterbus depot in Kilkeel, Co. Down, early on Saturday....

• The first 12-metre coaches to be delivered in East Anglia are two AEC Reliance coaches which have gone to the Cambridge-based...

• At a Section 177 (1) inquiry in Birmingham last week, the West Midland LA, Mr. J. Else, accepted the surrender of eight...

• Altrincham Coachways Ltd. was granted its application for 40 additional excursions less three taken out to meet an objection...

• Mr. James Ronald Henderson, managing director of J. R. Henderson (Transport and Storage) Ltd.. Newburn, Northumberland, said...

• A.G. Horton (Transport) Ltd. of Tipton, formerly registered in the West Midlands, was granted a transfer of base to Fife by...

• John Montgomery of Menstrie was granted a transfer of four tippers from C to B licence at Kirkcaldy on Tuesday. For the firm...

• The new vehicle prohibition scheme is to be introduced at the end of this year. the MoT told CM on Wednesday. Under Section...

• The West Midland LA, Mr. J. Else, granted only eight out of the 10 vehicles applied for when the B licence held by Mr. B....

• Colin McCulloch Jnr. of Lochgelly. Fife, was granted one vehicle on B licence subject to surrender of five vehicles...

• The Ministry of Transport states that there is now no likelihood of type approval—Ministry approval of design before...

• A new coil carrier, designed for 5ft 6in. diameter coils, has been announced by Thompson Trailmobile. The standard welllength...

• The Ibbett Engineering Co. Ltd., Stanley Works, Kempston, Hardwick, Bedford, manufacturer and patentee of the Eezion range of...

• Ford has introduced a towing attachment for long wheelbase versions of the Ford Transit. The attachment has been tailored for...

Loads and forces (5) • Snow and icebound roads bring their own quota of lost loads, ditchings and overturnings. The wise...

• Methods aimed at increasing road transport productivity were demonstrated by Shell-Mex and BP Ltd. prior to the opening by...

• Development of refuse container systems had not been exploited by local authorities to the extent one might have expected,...

• Jos. Walsh (Darwen) Ltd., its director and two employees, were committed for trial when they appeared at Darwen magistrates'...

WHEN operators' licensing is introduced later this year the sharp division between own-account and hire and reward transport...

A match which brings convenience and profit to British Leyland users everywhere. The SBS Lightweight, most popular on the 16...

There was a silver medal awaiting Lord Stokes when he attended the annual meeting of the Automobile Association last week. It...

They talk about justice being seen to be done: a speaker at the AA luncheon last week suggested that enforcement should be seen...

Because this may be the last year that sonic municipalities will have autonomous control of their own bus fleets, the secretary...

Many brilliant driving performances at LDoY rounds are reported in CM throughout the summer but I've heard several people...

I'm told that the new LDoY secretary at Londonderry, T. A. Smallwoods, "picked up" this centre only a month ago, but did a fine...

Gelligaer UDC has really gone gay for the investiture of the Prince of Wales. When its former AEC Swift demonstrator came up...

COMPETITION among manufacturers in the maximum-gross four-wheeler field has increased in recent years particularly as a result...

Road building tender REPORTS from royal commissions, unlike those from some other bodies, usually lead to legislation. But it...

IF a warehousing company was able to start again from scratch how would it set out its new pitch? Where would the warehouse be...

IN the transport world it would be difficult to point to any organization with such a spectacular growth record as that of the...

by the inadequacy of the conventional water cooling for controlling engine temperature. I have heard that successful...

expressed that no system could be devised that eliminated the possibility of jack-knifing and that did not affect the steering...

time ago that a p.s.v. training scheme was being operated by a Birmingham (or Manchester) coach proprietor. As I intend Making...

needed for transport manager's licence and also could you tell me about courses for obtaining the licence? A The...

drive heavy lorries. Do you know if there are such things as lorry-driving schools, or if some of the haulage companies are...

loader carrying earthmoving equipment. I do not know the weights of many of the machines I carry—so who is responsible if my...

AT first sight the Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI) appears to have little connection with commercial road transport...

THE appearance of new Construction and Use Regulations is always of great interest to the transport operator. As new...