HC Purchases NYONE who feels alarmed about the announcements on the next two pages concerning the take-over of Tayforth Group...

SEPTEMBER 12 Lorry Driver of the Year Competition Final. 16-26 Frankfurt Motor Show. 20-24 Municipal Passenger Transport...

OADSIDE checks by 19 Ministry examiners on A7, A8 and A9 on the outskirts of Edinburgh recently, resulted in immediate...

L EADERS DERS of the National Union of Railwaymen are to put new proposals on liner trains to the British Railways Board. The...

l'HE Chief Constable of Buckinghamshire is anxious to see established a vehicle observer corps to take action against lorry...

in the Federal Republic of Germany have now been closed to TIR traffic: Lampertehim (Frankfurt); Visselhovede (Hannover);...

New Service Centre : On August 13 the chairman of the North East Development Council is to open the new commercial vehicle...

and link with Leyland that frei HE State-owned Transport Holding Company is expected to succeed in a bid to acquire control of...

P E news that agreement had been reached for the Transport Holding Company to acquire a s controlling interest in Tayforth...

'HE agreed exchange of shares between 1 the THC and the Leyland Motor Corporation "on the basis that will lead to a development...

istol and ECW NO SPENDING SPREE By ALAN HAVARD, M Inst T the Leyland-AEC merger deal). Leyland has an option to extend its...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT B ETWEEN one and two weeks could I- , be cut off the transit time taken by goods for export,...

INFORMAL discussions are now being I held between HM Customs and a special sub-committee of the British Shippers' Council for...

FROM OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT T HE Tayforth and Leyland deals (as detailed on pages 20-21) have the full approval of the...

FROM OUR PARLIAMENTARY CORRESPONDENT T HE Minister of Labour is to discuss the operating speed of lorries with the trade...

TRADERS have clearly shown their preference for road transport in the carriage of export car g o to the docks, the National...

V T1CKERS-ARMSTRONGS LTD. are now V known to be fittin g air-cushion e q uipment to a low-loader trailer for CEGB so that the...

B RS PARCELS have now issued their new tariff g ivin g effect to the decision, followin g consultation with the Government,...

its kind in the UK, was launched on Tuesday by the paint manufacturing company of Lewis Berger (Great Britain) Ltd. The company...

F ROM Monday next a new fleet nameCorrall Transport Ltd.—will be seen on vehicles in London, East Anglia and South East...

PONFIRMING arran g ements for the k--• 1966 national conference at Eastbourne on April 20-23, the Traders Road Transport...

nUICKER hire-purchase repayments and a damper on the road building p;ogramme were among the measures announced this week by Mr....

ISES in bus fares will not be referred to the National Board for Prices and Incomes. Economics Minister Mr. George Brown, who...

IVIR. FRASER does not feel that he could direct the Bristol Omnibus Co. — part of the Tilling Group—to operate...

WHEN the Minister of Transport drafts VT regulations for the use of the Severn Bridge he will bear in mind requests that there...

T HE report of the local inquiries and experiments in rural bus services — to be published early next week--shows a number of...

B US companies described Cheltenham's disc parking scheme as " marvellous " and bus drivers had written to the highways...

" I AM satisfied that the solus system in the petrol trade as now operated is in some respects contrary to the public interest....

THE licensing committee's views on the 1 Geddes Report were discussed by the Road Haulage Association executive committee on...

THE Eastern Traffic Commissioners, sitting in Cambridge last week, said that to prevent inconvenience to the members of the...

A N appeal by R. and C. Transport and Engineering Co. was dismissed by the Transport Tribunal in London on Tuesday. The company...

THE A-variation application of East I Riding Transport Co. Ltd., of Hull was resumed at Leeds on Monday before the Yorkshire...

G RANTING applications for short-term B licences to sub-contractors working for G. and W. Morris Bros., Stanwell, Surrey, the...

O NE haulier had a vehicle removed from his Contract A licence and six others had one vehicle suspended for up to one month...

A N application by a Great Yarmouth firm to transport coloured supplements to local provincial newspapers throughout the...

TT was announced late on Wednesday that IBritish Road Services Ltd. had bought George Read (Transport) Ltd., of Mitcheldean,...

ffiBE removals and transport firm of -L J. Selly and Sons Ltd., established in 1863, was taken over last week by Tingeys of...

CASEBOOK BY JOHN DARKER Close Customer Liaison Can Yield Dividends A T a recent public inquiry at Hanley I was interested in...

THE spotlight directed on low quarry 1 rates in the West Country has moved to the West Midland and Northern areas. The rates...

THE legal profession is now engaged I in a much needed examination of its structure and practices and some progressive ideas...

NORTHERN APPLICATIONS Only 21, 1965) Thistle Transport Ltd., Carlisle, A var., add 2 art. (120. delete 1 veh. (410. Lnad and...

lic., iftance; tow-ldr., low.loader ; mats., materials N.U., normal user ; ST., spacial type : r, tons; T., tipper; trl.,...

A NET surplus of £103,828 resulting from the year ended March 31 last for Manchester Corporation Transport compared...

Fleetline rear engined doubledeckers has been placed by Western SMT Co. Ltd., which is currently introducing a batch of 55...

U NDER a Leyland/Transport Holding Company share exchange scheme, Leyland Motor Corporation is to get a 25 per cent share in...

in the Derbyshire Peak District has refused to increase its fares by as much as another larger company operating on the same...

XTORTH SEA FERRIES LTD. have II announced the following fares list for motor coaches on their roll-on/roll-off ferry service...

tier" bus travel may be introduced by Leeds City Transport. Normal stage services would be operated by rear entrance...

20 MCW-bodied Daimler Fleetlines took place on Friday; 10 have detachable tops and 10 fixed. These are the first Daimlers that...

N ET surplus: of Bradford City Transport of LI16,832 for the year ended March 31 last was the best figure for some 30 years....

Grimsby and CIeethorpes Deficit: The financial return of the Grimsby and ace thorpes joint transport committee for the rter...

of British Road Services. us succeed Mr. R. W. Miller when the latter retires next August. Mr. J. W. F. Mann, building...

BY THE TECHNICAL EDITOR N EGOTIATIONS are, I understand, being carried on between C. L. and H. L. Blundell Ltd., of...

T HE latest in the line of American " trucks of the future" was unveiled recently by the Chevrolet Division of General Motors....

. 1– % A NEW hydraulic overrun brake actuator for trailers, developed in conjunction with the FVRDE and based on units...

" - TN - W hoards of The British Motor Coripotation Ltd. and Pressed Steel Co. Ltd, announce that agreement has been reached in...

- pUTURE trends in materials handling equipment, the in-transit handling 'of containers and other unit loads are among the...

New Tyre Station: A new tyre station was opened last week in Kendal by Tyre Services (Carlisle) Ltd. Sited on the Mintsfeet...

Remember Steering Box Lubrication VERY much like a new engine, the V first-life of a steering box can he long and...

Have you an idea that is worth passing on to other readers ? It must relate to maintenance practice. hr a panel, on which...

and Publications Trailer Lighting Relay Unit A TRAILER signalling and lighting relay unit designed to 1 - 3. meet the Ministry...

Retreading Business As the quality of retreading improves, so the sale of reconditioned tyres increases steadily year by year...

Keep Pace By A. J. P. Wilding, A M I Mech E, IV1 1 R TE A STUDY of back issues of the "Tables of Operating Costs" published...

BIRD'S EYE VIEW State of the El In the House of Commons last Wednesday, Mr. Roger Gresham Cooke raised a question about the...

CHOOSIN !YRES than simply buying a well make that fits By R. DI CATER A M Inst B E C NOOSING tyres can be a frustrating...

By ANTHONY L. COURT M Y experience of tyre fires over a great many years has convinced me :hat some instruction should be...

Equipment tyre servicing Useful aids to reviewed by Derek Moses • TOTAL of 19 manufacturing companies of tyre-servicing...

D ETAILS of several important road schemes were announced on Friday, while today the Minister of Transport is due to open the...

S UPPOSING that the report of the Geddes Committee were accepted and the British licensing system abolished. Many of the...

Persistence 1 Systematic tyre maintenance can save you money T YRE costs constitute an appreciable proportion of the total...

R. J. Ross (Contractors) Ltd. Cap. EI,000. Objects: To acquire the business of a haulage contractor and aenetal merchant, etc,,...

By George Wilmot Lecturer in Transport Studies, University of London The Difficulties of Parttime Study THE part-time nature...