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D R. BEECHING has thrown down the gauntlet. In the second of British Railways' traffic duties (see page 7 of this issue), he...
The Council of the European Economic Community this week discussed the proposed action programme for implementing a common...
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FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT TRANSPORT ministers of the six I Common Market countries, at a twoday meeting in Brussels this...
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T HE Queen's Bench Divisional Court on Monday allowed with costs an appeal by George Curtis (Hauliers) Ltd., Haymoor Road, Pa...
A NOTE of caution to employers over the operation of the " disqualification " section of the new Road Traffic Act was sounded...
T HE chairman of the Channel Tunnel Company, Mr, Leo d'Erlanger, early this week forecast that the report of the Anglo-French...
heard by the Appeal Court on Wednesday. Mentioned briefly in Licensing Casebook, on page 50 of this issue, a full report of the...
Ltd., has announced that Mr. J. Beswick will be joining the Society as chief executive on January 1, 1963. Mr. Beswick, who has...
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A FTER hearing how an operator had purchased a forged licence and operated a vehicle under it, the Metropolitan Licensing...
rOLLOWING proposals for the closure of the "Gorton Tank" (railway) works, a number of the employees joined the staff. of...
2d. a mile on its bus . service between Odiham and Basingstoke, • South Eastern Traffic Commissioners were told last week,...
A N attempt by a large London haulage company to regularize its operations in the East Midlands Area failed at Nottin am last...
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'THREE cases concerning small buses have been very much in the news in the L past two weeks. Taking them in order of...
TILE licensing pages of this journal -L have recently carried more cases than usual of revocations and deletions of vehicles...
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Contract A to A lic.: Scottish (South): M. Kennedy, ,Glasgow; David Zavaroni, Glasgow. West Midland: H. J. Gough and Sons,...
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100,000 men and women in private company and B.T.C.-controlled bus undertakings is on its way to the National Council for the...
L ONDON TRANSPORT'S Routemaster troubles are not yet over. Despite the recommendation of their own leaders, a delegate...
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THE Northern Ireland Transport Tribunal, which last week confirmed the U.T.A.'s increased fares and charges, was told by Mr,...
drivers and over 12,000 conductors qualified in 1961 for awards made by the Road Operators' Safety Council. Awards to drivers...
T HE engine and gearbox developed for the new Reliant Regal 3/25 threewheeled car are to be used in the Reliant 5-cwt. van....
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Pl. A COMPLETELY new range of heavyduty folding gooseneck semi-trailers is now offered by R. A. Dyson and Co. Ltd. Folding...
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THE latest Scammell frameless t a nker . semi-trailer is built of . aluminiurn alloy and has a . payload capacity of' 3,665...
DRODUCTION and export fi g ures for g oods and public service vehicles have been issued by the Board of Trade and are as...
[WE re g ret to record the deaths of Mr. vV A. Henderson, Mr. P. M. J. O'Sullivan, Mr. D. Galla g her and Mr. G. Read, Mr....
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T HE first shock of British commercial vehicles being freely 'sold within the Common Market, should Britain join, will be...
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A NOTHER " first " is established by The Commercial Motor in presenting a detailed survey of the wide range of standardized...
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I T is easy these days to think of the diesel engine as being virtually the sole form of motive power in all types of...
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L AST year's small increase in the total strength of municipal bus and trolleybus fleets in Great Britain and Northern Ireland...
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S TANDARDIZATION is the keynote in the operation of the Eastwoods Ltd. group of companies' large transport fleet which annually...
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S OMETIMES, at least, notice is taken of what I say, and usually in circumstances when such an effect is not expected. Not long...
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valuation were some of the subjects discussed at the autumn conference of the National Association of Furniture Warehousemen...
This subject was discussed at the Folkestone Conference in May and it was on the basis of suggestions then made that Mr....
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A NEW series of single-axle 12 ton r-1 NEW semi-trailers has been introduced by the York Trailer Co. Ltd. There are two basic...
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T HE Annual Reports of the Traffic Commissioners for the year ending March 31, 1962, record a total of 5,249 passenger...