IS there a case for issuing a special driving licence to goods vehicle I drivers once they have shown competence to drive...

FROM OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT THE Conservatives have opened their I. election campaign with a slashing attack upon what is...

A NEW gearbox based on the well ti known Albion GB.241 fiveor six speed box is to be offered in Clydesdale CD21A, Reiver RE25A...

'THE B.M.C. 3-8-litte four-cylinder I direct-injection diesel engine, originally introduced as optional to the standard...

M IDDLESBROUG H'S watch and licensing committee recently decided to seek land from other committees for the immediate...

FROM OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT THERE is general dissatisfaction with the rail service for meat and fatstock. On the other...

four-wheeled tractive units specially designed for the Australian market has been dispatched to Booth (E.R.F.) Pty. Ltd., of...

ROME five or six years ago the B.P. 1 --/ Co. of Vienna, Austria, operated a number of rigid and articulated vehicles with...

WE have been told that the Minister of Transport is considering the possibility of meters for goods vehicles which are kept...

QTAGGERING of times for service and delivery to premises,, as well as of office hours, and separating of essential from...

range of studies including examination in sample areas of the way in which road and rail traffic might be controlled, and...

THE British Road Federation has asked 1 the chancellor of the Exchequer to reduce fuel tax by 6d. a gallon, from 2s. 9d. to 2s....

WilTI-1 Mr. W. A. Sutton, chairman and VV managing director of Sutton and Son (St. Helens) Ltd., to cut the white ribbon and...

F OLLOWING the news, reported in The Commercial Motor of January 24, that the Traders Road Transport Association was making...

meet on March 6 and among other items will consider any possible changes in operating costs as a result of wage awards and...

and vehicle speedometers were 'among items suggested to the Board of Trade during .1963 for reference to the Monopolies...

would continue, said Mr. Marples in the Commons this week. Standards for their control could not be prescribed until exhaust...

VENAL specifications for the Channel I tunnel had yet to be drawn up, said Lord Chesham when asked on Wednesday about the size...

cut in licences for road transport and would call for the re-examination of existing licences, said Mr. Ray Gunter, M.P.,...

I T was deliberate that the Government had not asked for a report on transport as a whole, said Lord Chesham, joint...

more devoted to roads (£204m. provisionally) than originally allocated for 1963/64, while State rail and waterway spending will...

FROM OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT IT now seems highly unlikely that the Government will introduce a scheme to assist rural buses...

FROM OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT T HE Ministry of Transport is having second thoughts about the noise meter on which last...

QINGLE-DECK bus bodies built by Marshall of Cambridge (Engineering) Ltd. for British operators will in future have only two...

A PILOT project for a large-scale study of the future place of public transport in Leeds is to be undertaken by the industrial...

THE whole of the share capital in the coach and garage business of Eatonways Ltd., Birmingham, which runs 10 coaches, has been...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT mEARLY seven hours of talks by the National Council for the Omnibus Industry in London on...

O N Sunday Glasgow City Labour Party passed a resolution calling for the introduction of a free municipal transport service....

A PPL1CATIONS to run excursions and tours from Ayrshire holiday resorts to destinations via the Forth Road Bridge have been...

transport committee were told last week by Mr. John Rostron, general manager, that bus fares would have to he increased because...

Coach Rally Entries: Entry forms for the National Coach Rally at Blackpool (April 4 to 5) can now be obtained from Mr. A. E....

I NCREASED availability and demand for long-distance day tours was the reason for an application to the West Midland Traffic...

Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd., Standard-Triumph international, and other group subsidiaries after 50 years' service. He joined...

riN Tuesday in Edinburgh Duncan \-. 1 Barbour and Son Ltd. of Glasgow failed in their appeal against the refusal of the...

A T ABERDEEN last week, the Scottish deputy Licensing Authority, Mr, A. B. Birnie, reserved his decision on two applications...

THE East Midland Licensing Authority, L Mr. C. R. Hodgson, reserved his decisions at Nottingham on Tuesday when three haulage...

T HE Transport Tribunal, in Edinburgh on Tuesday, allowed an appeal by Charles Alexander and Partners (Transport) Ltd., of...

who operate two vehicles on A licence between Glasgow and the north of Scotland and who had an application for a third vehicle...

fleet of Collins' Express Parcel Service Ltd. was so great that the firm had been unable to carry out normal preventive...

a regular service between Birmingham . Airport and the city was between the devil and the deep blue sea, Mr. D. Skelding...

A N unopposed application by Thomas Motor Tours Ltd., of North Muskham, Notts, to run an express service between Newark and...

T HE applications by Crosvi ll e Motor Services Ltd. to introduce extended tours from Chester with connecting feeder services,...

'THE largest application in this week's 1. As and Ds appears in the Northern area. This is by Sadler and Co. Ltd., of...

BY NORMAN H. T1LSLEY SOUTH WALES L.A. ADJOURNS CASE TO SEEK ADVICE T HERE appears to be divergence of opinion between lawyers...

A N application for a B licence to carry ri goods and packages for Fischer and Porter Ltd., the United Steel Co. and associated...

A T a conference held in Warwickshire last week by the Birmingham Dipped Headlights Committee, a strong plea was made by...

P UBLISHED on Wednesday was "Who's Who in the Motor and Commercial Vehicle Industries, -1964 ", the latest edition of a valued...

Diesel-engine Temperature DESPITE THE RUSH and bustle of goods-vehicle repair and maintenance, there are odd items of...

and Publications Fuel Filters A NEW range of " bowl-less " type fuel filters has been Pl. developed by Crosland Filters Ltd.,...

W HEN I ended last week's "Diary ", the subject was the Transportation Association of America. There is no equivalent to T.A.A....

BY ASHLEY TAYLOR, A.M.I.R.T.E. If too-free Transport R OAD haulage in the modern sense is a relatively young industry, more...

D ESPITE the trend towards articulation for heavy goods operation, particularly in some of the larger fleets, rigid...

By The Hawk It's nice to hear, in these predatory times, of a genuinely philanthropic gesture. The nicest one I've heard of...

accurate for Northern Ireland' O PTIMISTIC indeed would be the road operator who imagines that the transport policy of the...

A S announced last week, standards for the safety, health and welfare of more than 8 m. workers in offices, shops and certain...

IN his annual review last Apra, stockbroker Sir Ronald 1 G. Leon, Bart., chairman of WEST RIDING AUTOMOBILE CO. stated that the...

The Squeeze on the Owner-driver R EFERRING to the article by Norman H. Tilsley in the February 14 issue of The Commercial...