THE "What is British?" row is escalating. Leyland's claim that Volvo is not entitled to call itself a British company has been...

k ROW IS BREWING over an apparent loophole in sideguard regulaions which exempts operators from fitting British specification...

BALLOT for space at this ar's Scottish Motor Show will held in Edinburgh on May 17. Companies seeking stand ace at Glasgow's...

BRITAIN'S minor roads are in poor shape according to the House of Commons transport select committee and the 1982 national road...

• UNDER FIRE over the questi of customs checks on fuel tan the newly re-elected West G man administration h promised to try to...

LORRIES cause more annoyance to other road users than they do to people at home, according to the results of a survey published...

SHORT-TERM vehicle rental for own account operators could be eliminated if a European Commission draft directive gets the...

SOUTH WALES drivers are atte their 1983 wage claim, and are companies which do not settle. The trade union side of the joint...

ORFOLK given the ORFOLK given the 1-tonne lorry one of the big)st pledges of faith so far by vesting in 300 of a potentially...

DUSTRY in South Wales needs to be assured that a second Sern crossing could be built quickly and the planning should start...

1E COVENT Garden Tenants' sociation will not raise the arge for six-monthly permits enter London's New Covent rden Market. It...

TWO WASTE collection contracts have been handed over to private sector companies Waste Management (part of the National Freight...

COMPUTER-assisted traffic planning can lead to greatly improved administration systems, according to SPD Distribution's Peter...

A CONSULTATIVE docume asking for views on updatil the law on the payment wages has been issued by Ei ployment Secretary Normi...

SOUTHERN BRITISH Road I vices has opened a new brai at Watford, Hertfordshire. It will complement its exist network of 21...

MERCURY INTERNATIONAL Freight and Cave Wood European Transport have started a freight fowarding service from Bristol, Plymouth...

BHLR container service has chosen Containerbase Scotland as its new Scottish depot. Operating out of Coatbridge, Lanarkshire,...

LUCAS GIRLING claims that its Skidchek MGX anti-lock braking system is now being fitted to more than 60 per cent of all new...

MERCEDES-BENZ UK has opened a E5m, 1,7 6 5sq m (19,000sq ft) maintenance facility at Colindale, North London, which offers a...

AIR SUSPENSION is a key feature of the large fleet of threeaxle trailers being delivered to Norfolk Line (see p9). The...

THE FORMER head of a management consultancy takes over next week as chairman of the Road Transport Industry Training Board....

WE RECORD with regret the death of Ashley F. Taylor, northern editor of CM until his retirement in 1973. He left accountancy...

PICKFORDS REMOVALS has taken on Tony Percival as sales development executive based at the company's Birtley, Tyne and Wear...

COLIN SHEPHERD has become engineer at Midlands British Road Services' Oxford branch. He joins MBRS after several years as a...

CARRYCARE, a distribution division of the SPD Group, has promoted John Davies to managing director. He was previously sales...

CHASSIS DEVELOPMENTS of Leighton Buzzard has developed a conversion for the Ford Cargo 1713, 17-tonne gcw automatic coupling...

CENTAUR ELECTRONIC Systems of Oldham, has developed an early warning in-cab TV system which detects mechanical failures, warns...

for Lancashire firm THE FIRST Mercedes-Benz 16215 tractive units powered by the more powerful and slower revving 10.96-litre...

ITINGHAM Bodybuilding and Engineering has produced a cial-purpose step-framed trailer with Rubery Owen-Rockwell way air...

• Simon for Buzby ORDERS worth 000,000 have been placed by British Telecom with Simon Engineering, Dudley, for 27 hydraulic...

STRONG SUPPORT for the increasing use of minibuses has come from the Government. All three Department of Transport ministers...

THE LOW FELL Coaches cross-Tyne bus service can stay, Transport Secretary David Howell has ruled, but it could soon have a...

LONDON TRANSPORT ha turned a predicted £15m defic into a Elm surplus for 1982. Th compares with a deficit in 19E of £64.7m....

PRIVATE COACH services ha been winning thousands of pa sengers from British Rail. Figures out shortly will shE that the number...

BRITISH-designed integral mch and a lightweight rear-enined bus were among the new iodels unveiled at last weekid's Bus and...

A CLEAR HINT that the Government wants to take control of London Transport away from the Greater London Council has come from...

PLANS to run a round-London sightseeing stage carriage bus service by independent operator Culture Bus have got a stage nearer...

THE FIRST-EVER opportunit for coach operators, manu facturers, travel agents an the travelling public to ge together takes...

OES the decision of the ransport Tribunal (CM, ebruary 19, page 11) remove /este Disposal Companies from le scope of RTITB as...

FHY BUY FOREIGN? (CM inuary 20, 1983). Why not buy ritish? (CM any year). A current theme in Commercial rotor, but we never...

I MUST SAY that I was very surprised that Mr Finch should write from Worcestershire about the problems of fares in the GLC...

MR WHITE's letter (CM. January 22) and his reasons for not buying British illustrate quite simply that the millions of pounds...

WITH REFERENCE to David Wilcox's well-written article on Tail lifts (CM, 19 February), as importers of the Swedish Zepro we...

Fiat and Peugeot have collaborated to produce an exceptionally easy to drive light van. Steve Grey has been testing it ANY...

You can use a lot of diesel by leaving an engine idling just to keep the cab warm. David Wilcox has found out how much this...

FOLLOWING in the footsteps of a Sussex bookshop assistant, two topless girl streakers did their bast to upstage what the Rugby...

A COMPETITION to find the most unusual application for vinyl packaging tape, which held a car boot lid firmly shut for more...

"WHAT really angers me is the intolerance and arrogance of one working man to another," said Graham Golby, a Sheffield...

RENAULT has, says a news release, introduced, "a remote electronic control which can operate car door locks from up to 100yd...

THERE IS little to choose between the economic climate: of Britain and Australia and the causes are much the same in both...

BVRLA delegates at Royal Lancaster were also warned about emotive buying and other danger areas. Mike Rutherford reports THE...

Lucas CAV believes that electronic control of the injection process is inevitable if future emission/economy requirements are...

Three steps to help cut operating costs. Save on each barrel of oil you buy. If you use enough engine oil, you could save by...

Lubricating oils are perfectly safe from the health point of view, if they are used sensibly. However, it is worth stressing to...

The SAE (it stands for the Society of Automotive Engineers) classification arranges engine oils by their viscosity — see table...

Alternative fuels with pilot diesel injection are on the way, says Bradford-born Bill Crampton, who is now technical editor of...

Elementary precautions overlooked, fuel supplies contaminated, mechanics whc steer clear of the subject — just some of the ways...

IN THE LAST article on the control of engine temperature cooling fans which stop automatically, and those which run at reduced...