E National Road Transport Federa tion is to be dissolved. This was announced jointly this week by the Road Haulage Association,...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT A FORMER president of the National Union of Mine Workers is expected to be named shortly by...

• . Provisions' W ILE approving the general princ r iples of the E.E.C. Commission's. draft transport policy, the permanent...

EN travelling outside built-up areas, vehicles of over 3.5 metric tons (7,700 lb.) maximum gross weight should leave between...

capacity of over 7,500tons. served by fork-lift trucks and conveyors, form the basis of a great new transport warehousing...

"IT is to be deplored that the road system of this country is so far behind the technical development of the road vehicle,"...

WITH a view to altering the form of VV the National Council so as to effect an overall reduction in numbers, an extraordinary...

T HE Institute of Transport is to take part in the National Productivity Year 1962-63 (the 1962 week-end conference at Oxford...

released on Tuesday I of the plans which the Ministry of Transport has been formulating for several years now, in consultation...

a nationalized industry should support a road haulier's application to carry goods for it was dealt with by the Transport...

House of Fraser Decision Reserved • THE House of Fraser application to 1 convert 40 C licences to B, and to vary licences for...

'THE, heavy haula g e business has been 1 slack durin g -the past six months, accordin g to Mr. C. R. Beddin g ton, who made...

an application by Roberts Coaches Ltd., Crewe, for new extended tours to Great Yarmouth, EaStbourne, Pai g nton and Southsea,...

W E want to standardize our fleet ", said Mr. J. Russell, managing director, supporting an application by Russell of •Bathgate...

W HEN the applicant, H. Evans and Sons (Newport) Ltd., failed to appear at the hearing on Monday, the South Wales Licensing...

A N increase in traffic between England and Northern Ireland prompted an application for four new articulated A outfits by...

sioners last week granted a joint application by Stockland Garage Ltd. and G. H. Austin and Sons Ltd., for an additional...

'THE Metropolitan area "Applications and Decisions" contains two of the largest applications to be notified th s week. M....

fleet, an application by F. and K. Transport Ltd., Celtic, for a variation of its A licence was refused by the North Western...

al of the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners, told a Bradford estate' agent last. week that unless he took early steps to run a...

THE Transport Tribunal in London last week reserved its decision after a two-day hearing of an appeal by Jones Transport...

-rim South Wales Licensing Authority, 1 Mr. Ronald R. Jackson, on Monday granted a contract A licence to a Bridgend haulier but...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT L EADERS of 70,000 busmen employed in municipal undertakings received a fiat turndown of...

Electric Traction Co. Ltd. to the candidate who, being an employee of a road passenger transport company in England or Wales,...

county councils of Durham and Northumberland, are being recommended to carry out a survey of transport. Among other things, the...

agreed to switch its attitude on toll charges for the new Forth Road Bridge and will join a deputation of local authorities to...

L ABOUR M.P.s last week failed in an attempt to alter the clause in the Weights and Measures Bill which says that written...

of narrow streets by delivery vehicles waiting alongside parked vehicles are to be brought to the attention of the Home...

From our Political Correspondent S ACKING "on the spot" will become virtually a •thing of the past if the Government's new...

Thomas Marsden, the deputy mana g er to Bournemouth Corporation Transport Dept. Mr. Marsden takes up his duties in the New...

.1 - 1 A NEW type of bulk grain vehicle, produced by Carmichael and Sons (Worcester) Ltd., The Butts, Worcester. is a...

WJEIGHTMASTER sixand eightIT wheeled goods chassis, as introduced six months ago by Atkinson Vehicles Ltd., are now available...

Kesteven C.C., Lines, invites tenders by Jan. 14 for the year ending 31.3.64 for inter Win supply of " one 3-ton long-wheelbase...

Dunlop and India tyre prices were increased by three per cent, Firestone Tyre and Rubber Co. Ltd. has raised its prices by...

kRTICS FOR RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION : The Southern Railway, India, has ordered four Leyland Comet articulated outfits from Ashok...

WITH square-ended vehicles, and this VV . includes almost all commercials, the law-pressure area that forms at the rear •...