W HY, the National Joint Industrial Council for the Road Passenger Transport Industry having enjoyed an arbitration award for...

O UT today are the official proposals for increases in road haulage employees' pay, embodied in R.H.(81). This puts into...

rro enable goods imported in secure containers or vans to be examined at ports I or airports away from the point of entry, H.M....

A NUMBER of important and success4 -1 ful proposals have been made on behalf of the heavy haulage and machinery carriers' group...

C ONTAINERS (left) with bodies similar to those on the Vanguard frameless semi-trailer van are now being built by Crane...

A T the annual general meeting of the heavy haulage and machinery carriers' group of the Road Haulage Association, last week,...

'THE first full meeting of the new I maintenance advisory committee for Use Western area was held last week in Exeter, and Mr....

T HE Transport Ferry Service has expressed its concern at the increasing difficulty of identifying trailers, containers and...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT THE Industrial Court, in a judgment I published last week-end, turned down a claim by 1,202...

FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT A S a result of representations by the Road Haulage Association, the Belgian. Dutch and French...

I N spite of the appeal . by the Minister of Transport. Mr. Tom Fraser, to leaders of the National Union of Railwaymen last...

TESTING, plating, brakes — the problem of the existing vehicle. That was the theme of a talk given at Brighton last week to...

St. Edmunds last week, Mr. C. Robinson, chairman. Eastern area of the Road Haulage Association had a special word to say...

TH E Minister of Transport, Mr. Tom Eraser, will be the principal guest at the annual dinner of the Road Haulage Association,...

T ' Minister of Transport said in the Commons this week that he was considering an amendment of the Road Traffic Act so as to...

A WORKING party on the marking 1 - 1 of road tank vehicles had drafted a voluntary scheme of marking, reported Mr. George...

TH E executive council of the Scottish Commercial Motormen's Union has welcomed the suggestion of the Lord Chief Justice that a...

THE Minister of Transport last week I promised to consider a suggestion that he should ban from motorways battery-driven...

to the Tribunal on Wednesday against a decision of the Northern Licensing Authority. There were no respondents, and judgment...

(IN Wednesday, the Transport Tribunal reserved judgment on an appeal by H. M. Sutcliffe Ltd. of Littleborough, near Rochdale,...

A SECTION 178 inquiry at Cardiff last week resulted in W. H. Hall and Son (Heol-y-Cyw - ) Ltd. having two vehicles on each of...

A LL six objectors to the application by Slaters Transport Ltd., of Kirbymisperton, for a 22-vehicle El-to-A switch withdrew...

A WRITTEN reserved judgment of the Transport Tribunal in the Channel Airways Ltd. appeal (The Commercial Motor, January 22), in...

NAAJOR conflicts on the interpretaIVI tion of the evidence were revealed before the Transport Tribunal on Tuesday during the...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT NO RADICAL CHANGES N O radical changes from the picture of road passenger transport as we...

A FLEET of five experimental Leylandpowered integrally constructed singledeckers has been introduced by Stockholm Tramways....

T HEprivately owned Deeside Omnibus Service, with headquarters in Ballater, is to be closed after 40 years of operation. W....

10s. per week in the extra payment for busmen's sprcadover duties has been agreed by Manchester Corporation establishment...

Group, will be retiring tomorrow (Saturday) from this capacity. But he will, for the time being, continue as a part-time...

EIOLLOWING the retirement of Mr. I George Argyle, chief engineer of the commercial vehicle division of the British Motor...

From our Political Correspondent O 11\110N at the Ministry of Transport is hardening against any devious ways of .allowing the...

A GREEMENT has now been reached for Rootes Motors Ltd. to acquire Dodge Brothers (Britain) Ltd., the consideration being over...

B ETWEEN 200 and 300 of the Coventry-produced Leyland 2-tonner Ind 20-cwt. chassis have been sold to Zentral and South America...

3EDFORD/BOWYER PANTECHNICONS FOR SYD ABRAMS: The Manchester Vauxhall/Bedford main dealer, Syd Abrams _td., has ordered 50...

—Statement by Westinghouse TO correct possible incorrect impressions on one or two technical points regarding double-diaphragm...

of competition, not only from the U.S. and Germany but also from the Japanese" was expressed by Mr. Donald Stokes, managing...

S INCE work started on their first lightweight semi-trailer five months ago (The Commercial Motor, December 4, 1964), T. W....

Chancellor of the Exchequer to remove the imposition, last November, of 6d. extra on fuel tax and to make still further...

provide electric power for astronauts, may in the near future be used to propel vehicles such as milk floats, delivery vans and...

has started at Izmir, Turkey, on the building of a new factory to assemble and ultimately manufacture a broad range of B.M.C....

THIS 48-ft.-tong articulated I outfit (right) forms part of a Leyland Motor Corporation cavalcade that is driving overland from...

IMPROVED service facilities for Edbro I and Pilot tipping gears will result from the setting up of a group service and spares...

The G.V.9. — Chassis Brackets and Members A FAMILIAR cry is now being heard in the transport world today, particularly after...

and Publications A DDED now to the range of vehicle-washing machines made by Dawson Bros. Ltd. is a unit designed for use by...

T HE recent creation by the Government of a transport co-ordinator, the intention of British Railways to run liner trains, and...

BY THE EDITOR W HEN we organized the first one-day Fleet Management Conference last September, we were quite overwhelmed by...

66 0 not fiddle around with things until attention is required." This is how Mr. W, H. Banot, chief engineer of the Kearley...

eliminate the goods vehicle W HEN we have to take a bus for a journey on a winter's day, with what a world of yearning do we...

A . READER asks if there is to be further limitation on the legally permitted length of a combined rigid vehicle and one...

Recovery Troubles I WAS interested to read in the issue of January 15 an article on recovery by R. Marshall. We are also a...

A Prime Interest TOUR article "The Desperate Need for Improvement in Transport" in the February 12 issue has no doubt been...

This is the first of a series of articles looking at various current developments and future plans which are likely to have...