D ECAUSE of the high cost of manpower in any fleet it is, perhaps, ptoo easy to think in terms of absorbing rises in.this...

T HE South Western Metropolitan magistrate, Mr. H. C. Beaumont, finding a Folkestone car transport operator guilty last week of...

the first ever British president of the International Road Transport • Union when he takes office on January 1, 1965. The...

I N an effort to reach a compromise on the problem of weights and dimensions, the E.E.C. Commission has submitted fresh...

nUATE undeterred by the liner train rumpus, which must be throwing out his experts' calculations of the amount of freight....

C 0 . 114lVIENTI/NIG on thefts from ‘.--• parked Motor lorries, a •Liverpool police officer stated ' that the main...

motorists as a result of the use of trailer marker lamps are being investigated by the Traders Road Transport Association. One...

H EAVY penalties were imposed on a Longport (Stoke-on-Trent) haulier and seven of his drivers when they appeared last week...

sq.-ft. warehouse at Dennis Road, Balsall Heath, Birmingham 12, opened on Monday and will become Lep's main collection and...

B y E. J. MILLEN XC1TEMENT came to Crowland last Saturday. Rally driver Bill Banks' farm (up in Northamptonshire) for one...

by a forms of transport by 1970, with distinctly greater relative share accruin to road transport, is forecast in a traffi...

QPEAKING at the annual g eneral meet in g of North Western Tippers Ltd. at Chorley last week, chairman Mr. John Gilbraith...

G OODS vehicle operators in South Wales have set up a maintenance advisory committee, with the object of improvin g the...

IN Mr. William Foden, mana g in g director of Fodens Ltd., of Sandbach, Cheshire. Mr. Foden, who was in his 96th year, died on...

IT has been decided by Marks and 1 Spencer Ltd. to stop keepin g reports on the cleanliness of the hands and clothin g of...

into Labour's plans for road haula g e. " There is no field :n which the Labour Party's plans are more divorced from reality ",...

A SUGGESTION that lorry traffic should be discoura g ed on main roads out of lar g e towns at ni g ht was made in the Commons...

spent on the Scottish roads pro g ramme durin g the five-year period up to 1969, reported Mr. Michael Noble. Secretary of State...

I N spite of hi g her fares London's bus services brou g ht in £100,000 less in revenue last year than they did in 1962. This,...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT A FTER a lot of heart-searching and almost interminable argument the London busmen decided,...

G LASG OW CORP ORATION has 1 .- 1 approved the purchase of a 36-ft. Leyland Panther, rear underftoor-engined, single-decker...

the basis of a bus built by J. H. Jennings and Son Ltd., of Sandbach, and recently presented to the Nottinghamshire County...

the percentage increase since 1961 in the cost of getting to work in your town by public transport?" This was one of the...

H 0PES that the annual drop in traffic was now steadily declining were expressed by Mr. Raymond W. Birch, chairman of the...

B ULWARK UNITED TRANSPORT Li LTD. has had six vehicles on shortterm licences since October 1961, and now thought it justifiable...

W HAT was said to be Britain's first mini-bus stage carriage service was authorized at Northampton on Monday when the East...

A NEW bus 'link between Northamptonshire towns and the East Coast was forged when the East Midlands Traffic Commissioners...

A TIPPER driver told the new Western Licensing Authority, Mr. J. R. C. Samuel-Gibbon, at Bristol on Wednesday that shortly...

A ONE-VEHICLE Contract A licence rA to carry solid fuel for Keith Jenkins, fuel distributors, of Coventry, to run for one year,...

A JOINT application by A One Transport (Leeds) Ltd. and C.N.C. Transport Ltd. for 28 vehicles to be switched from Contract A to...

on Revocation 'Notice' IT NEED NOT TAKE ANY PARTICULAR FORM THE Geddes Committee should have been in attendance in Appeal...

—and a moral for Contract A Operators LIGURES entered in support of an application for additional facilities, or for the...

TNECONOMIC contract carrying "‘. 1 rates were the main bone of contention in last month's important Fast Freights (Road...

G UIDANCE on how to present applications for facilities that are required to meet a future demand was given by the Transport...

There were special reasons behind the granting (or perhaps "regranting " would be a more correct term) of an excursions and...

Transport and Warehousing Co. (Manchester) Ltd., to take over as managing director of Europa Express Ltd., a company with...

Reorganization . T HE Tilling Group is to sort its companies into six regional groups, so that although the operating...

'THE Minister of Transport has • " proposed changes in driving-licence application procedure, and has circulated his...

THE bulk of orders worth £900,000 placed with Leyland Motors Ltd., by Coras Iompair Eireann is for passenger vehicles with...

marketed by Lectra Merchandising Ltd., 633 Old Kent Road, London, S.E.15, include increased power, improved fuel consumption...

IT was announced on Monday by the 1 British Railways Board that it is to spend £2.5m. on replacements for its road haulage...

IMPROVED forward visibility through La deeper and higher windscreen, the 'ming of a new front grille and a - estyled instrument...

TWO additional versions of the I Daimler-Benz OM 352 5.675-litre, lirect-injection diesel engine, which was Itroduced in...

A NEW engine oil has been introduced by the Mobil Oil Co. Ltd. Called Improved Mobiloil Special, it is an S.A.E. 10W/30 oil but...

D EvELOpmENTs to the range of Dempster containerized equipment under consideration by Powell Duffryn Engineering Co. Ltd....

Arc Welding Hints—Positional Welding "Vertical-up" L'OR quick and easy repairs on the I vehicle, it is necessary to master...

is Mr. M. C. L McGrath, of Fennhurst, nr. Hastemere, Surrey. His idea concerns the assembly of Girling 5 in. and 6 in. brake...

and Publications Four Tyre Maintenance Machines A T demonstrations held recently by the Grantham Rubber Machinery Co.' Ltd. a...

By The Hawk Lnother Good One The job of speakers secretary a club is never enviable, yet the Transport Managers :lub in...

wige Far and Wide By S. BUCKLEY ASSOO.INST.T. R EMOVALS in Australia, U.S.A. and Europe, domestic problems of licensing, area...

DUTCH R.A.I. EQUIPMENT EXHIBITION A WELL-DESERVED SUCCESS I By A. J. P.WIlding I F proof were needed of the practicability of...

By JOHN F. MOON A.M.I.R.T.E. ROAD TEST: SD Pakamatic 20 Refuse Collector E VER since the horse started to disappear from the...

W HEN an ambulance is standing at the. scene of an accident at night, the continuous current drain on the battery will probably...

D URING the past decade consistent advances in mechanization have been apparent at each of the successive vehicle...

A SKED to expound his party's plans for nationalization, the leader of the opposition, Mr. Harold Wilson, referred the Prime...

By P. A. C. BROCKINGTON, A.M.I.MECH.E. A FTER visiting or corresponding with seven authorities who practise and preach...

R EPLACEMENT of four Thames 4-tonners, which have attended 10,000 fires in the past 10 years with great reliability, by four...

By Ashley Taylor, A.M.I.R.T.E., Assoc. Inst. T. C HANGE is constant, a fact well illustrated by the history of public...

SPECIAL SERVICE VEHICLES ARE BEING DEVELOPED TO MEET THE NEED FOR A FRESH APPROACH TO EMERGENCY AND MAINTENANCE SERVICES ON...

L AST year Cpl. D. M. Headman won Class S at the Coventry eliminator with a loss of 127 penalty. points and in the run off for...

A COMMON complaint regarding mass-production commercial.velticle manufacturers has been with regard to their inability to...

T EN years ago the country was divided into two camps of coordination in transport, said Sir Reginald Wilson, deputy chairman...

I N past weeks in this series conditions under which the provision of commercial vehicles on contract hire could be...

Power-to-weight By John F. Moon, IT WOULD appear that Britain is fast reaching the point where its Ministry of Transport will...