A simple electro-magnetic braking device has enabled Shearings Pleasureways Holidays Limited to streamline maintenance...

The guide to operators' licensing which is now ready to be sent to hauliers by the Ministry of Transport is a recognition of...

• A meeting held on Wednesday between ORS Parcels Ltd. management and the TGWU, SCMU and URTU in an attempt to end the strike...

from a special correspondent • Two appeals due to be heard within the next few weeks may provide rulings of considerable...

• "The testing time for our association will be when the licensing system allows newcomers to flood into the Royal Group of...

• Goods vehicle operators with fleets specified on centrally-held carrier's licences but physically dispersed throughout the...

• The Post Office, following experience with a battery-electric van used for parcels delivery and sorting in Leicester, has...

• A continuous survey of the road transport of goods in Great Britain is to be undertaken by the Directorate of Statistics of...

• Why had the prospect of the new operators' licensing system created so much gloom amongst C-licence operators, Mr. John Else,...

• In hand-overs this week by the directorgeneral of the RTITB, Mr. Eric Tindall, eight trucks were presented by the Training...

• Unless the Ministry of Transport can issue final drivers' hours and records regulations and schedules in exact form by...

• It is possible that the Essex centre of the Lorry Driver of the Year competition will not function in 1970. This was...

• When Mr. J. R. Edwards, president of the Motor Industry Research Association, proposed the toast to the guests at the...

• Support for the principle of transport managers licensing was expressed quite strongly on Tuesday at the first of three...

• Nine transport companies pleaded guilty at Carlisle magistrates' court on Monday, to charges of using vehicles with loads in...

• Changes in the pattern of traditional transport to Islay were announced at a public inquiry in Glasgow on Monday, when David...

• An Ipswich haulage firm had three vehicles suspended for three months on Wednesday by the deputy Licensing Authority for the...

• In Glasgow on Monday an attempt was made to have a licence granted to a company which operated formerly in Glasgow, went into...

• Delegates of about 40 North-East local authorities at a conference at Durham City, last week, passed a vote of no confidence"...

• A sentence of 30 days' imprisonment was recently imposed by Harlow magistrates on a haulier because he was unable to pay...

• "The prime consideration will be the safe and sound mechanical condition of vehicles. This must be allied with and stem from...

• G. and K. Haulage Ltd., of Tipton, have applied to take over the licences of 0. E. Hinds (Transport) Ltd., the...

• Timetable and fares revisions were granted to A. and C. McLennan Ltd., of Spittalfield, and A. C. McLennan (Blairgowrie) Ltd....

• Maidstone and District Motor Services Ltd. has been granted its second fares increase in a year. At the end of a two-day...

• A one-vehicle operator, Mr. K. Brown, of Normanby, Teesside, was granted a B licence in Middlesbrough on Friday after a...

• A solicitor alleged at a public inquiry in Durham on Monday that a small haulage firm had "canvassed" work away from other...

• The NBC subsidiary that will operate the ex-London Transport green bus services, London Country Bus Services Ltd., announced...

• The facilities for passengers from Selby wishing to join Wallace Arnold's extended tours at Leeds were inadequate, it was...

What's the future for school bus contracts? How does one get into Continental coaching? Are there any special snags to beware...

• A statement will be made soon about proposals for setting up a Passenger Transport Authority in the Glasgow area. Dr. J....

• The increase of 3d on the 9c1 and 1s 3d fares on London Transport buses in the suburban and country districts within the...

• The bus fare increases recently approved by the Western Area Traffic Commissioners will be brought into operation by Devon...

• Mr. Werner Heubeck, head of Ulsterbus Ltd., has advised employers in Northern Ireland to stop counting heads, so far as the...

• The progress of the Greater London Council's traffic and transport activities against the everchanging social and economic...

R. E. H. Braithwaite, 45, since 1965 chief engineer of the Northern General Transport Co. Ltd., has been appointed chief...

• Dunnspencer Bulkflo Ltd., of Ilion, near Ilminster, Somerset, has announced that the latest versions of the Bulkflo Mk. 3 and...

• A new range of semi-trailers designed to permit operators to take immediate advantage of changes in weight limits which may...

Loads and forces (28) • It may seem only a few short years since the "twenty plate" when it was a powerful eight-wheeler that...

• UK plated gross weight rating of the new Fo D900 models has been raised to 14 tons ficv% achieving common ratings between...

by A. J. P. Wilding, MIMechE, MIRTE • Within the next week or so the first two prototype Metro-Scania .single-deck buses will...

. . . for half a million arduous African miles by P. A. C. BROCKINGTON, MIMechE "ALWAYS something new out of Africa' wrote...

OF ALL the phenomena relating to braking performance, load transfer during an emergency stop has assumed the greatest...

*Mists of time Few Northern transport men would disagree with the description of the Irish Sea as the cradle of unitization in...

by Ashley Taylor, AMI RTE AssocinstT FOR some people the container revolution is an accepted fact, for others the container is...

Year Book updated A USEFUL book containing much valuable information for the container operator is published this month. The...

SO FAR we have been dealing with historical costs from which the cost analyst prepared a trading /profit forecast for a period...

WE are in violent disagreement with the Road Transport Industry Training Board, which was set up under the Industrial Training...

Keeping ahead of Jones PART of the lure of the Western lies in the • pursuit of the heroine or some other vulnerable character...

Should warehousing associations combine? How disastrous has the Dock Labour Scheme been? Have warehousemen had a fair return...

For the next seven days from November 28— D ecember 4 FRIDAY: loTA (Devon and Cornwall) annual dinner and dance. Dingle's...

A The regulation to which you refer is the one which will make it an offence (to be included in the totting up system leading...

Continent with a lorry and trailer outfit, using a long-wheelbase vehicle. From the rear of the cab to the drawbar is 25 ft....

featured in your pages a means of testing the weight of axles single-handed. Now! cannot trace this item. Could you supply me...

on house-to-house delivery. I have been told that! must comply with the food hygiene rules. What are they and where can! find...

IN ALL the far-reaching developments in training and education for road haulage, especially management training, it is all too...

VEHICLES being used for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes are exempt from speed limits but only if the observance of...

Thomas Orton arid San Ltd. Cap.: /100. Objects: To carry on the business as haulage contractors, etc. Dirs.: T, Orion, J. T....

Towing eyes of all sizes and with all shank designs, are now being offered by Neate Brake Controls. This range has capacities...

From Gerni (Cleaning Equipment) comes a new, fully portable hydraulic vehicle lift. The Autolift will raise light vehicles on...

Two portable space heaters added to the Stenor range of garage equipment incorporate original features to give instant,...

An Alexander Duckham degreasant called Adkerner 99, to facilitate the thorough cleaning of engines and chassis, should be...

A gauge protection valve introduced by Hale, Hamilton (Valves), provides adequate protection for expensive test gauges and...

A new range of spray guns from Motivair Compressors Ltd. covers four basic models. Model PSI is a pressure or syphon-feed gun...

Britannia range of Vehicle Emaculators in July 1968 now — offer their Britannia "Up-and-Over machine for cleaning front, roof...

A 12 switch model p.s.v. lighting switchboard—type 482--being introduced by CAV will be fitted with thermal circuit breakers....

Chamberlain Industries now have a larger model in the Staffa Range of hydraulic motors. Known as the B45, it follows the same...

A note for hauliers shipping livestock to the Continent who have received complaints about the smell! Alamask 520 A-X. It is...

Six adhesives—between them suitable for bonding virtually every plastics materials in common use—have been introduced by the 3M...

The Narco Revolver, a handy service tool with six tool stations, can be curried on the hip in its leather holster, can cope...

then quite elderly sixwheeler mounted on 14.50-20 giant tyres over Trent Bridge, Nottingham, when there was an explosion and...

A versatile and reliable blind fastener, suitable for attaching metal to metal or wood, wood to wood or plastics and metal to...

From the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co comes a new material for the tyre retreading industry. It is a nail-hole repair material,...

air-brake-service-line gauge n V. L. Churchill offers a ;k, simple means of testing pressures at the connections ween tractive...

and tool for placing kin. and diameter Nutsert threaded ,rts has been introduced by lel. Known as the Type 7481 id tool, it is...

A high lorry loader with a modest price. the Telehoist Foco 150, is available in two models. The 150XX has a double extension...

From Fisher Controls comes a new hand lamp which withstands hard knocks without breaking and has a rated tube life of 5,000hr....

Metric grease nipples from Tecalemit supplement its existing range. The new nipples include straight, 90deg, 67 deg and 45deg...

Full injector component identification is a feature of the Red Plus injector application booklet issued by Globe and Simpson,...