F ROM what Sir Philip Warter, chairman, said on Tuesday (page 34) the Transport Holding Company had a good first year. But the...

BY H. BRIAN COTTEE THE belief that an ,,all-embracing "new deal" plan for pay and conditions will form part of imminent...

A " CORROSIVE FRAUD" in which In lorry drivers signed invoices for dery they never received, and pocketed 3s. for every...

F OLLOWING close upon the evidence of the Traders' Co-ordinating Committee which (as recorded last week) stressed the...

I N its first full year of operation, 1963, the Transport Holding Company made a profit of over £12-} m.—an all-time record for...

From our - Industrial Correspondent L 1NER trains, the railways' chief hope 1 -4 of winning back substantial quantities of...

R OAD hauliers and transport users were invited to Marylebone goods fard, London, yesterday, to study and comment on...

DY a majority of 59 votes to 13, with 10 abstentions, the E.E.C. Economic and Social Committee has approved a resolution that...

road haulage offer as good a service. Proof of need would also lead to considerable administrative waste: either existins...

M R. R. DURHAM, chairman of the Northern area of the R.H.A., claims that intensive rate-cutting in the haulage industry is...

gallons of petroleum products has been built by Mobil Oil Co. Ltd. at the company's Coryton terminal in Essex. In addition, a...

L E BOURGET airport authorities have LA announced that its frozen store—said to be the first at a European airport— will open...

INCREASED competition in order to i promote better transport facilities and lower costs is the prime aim of a Swedish...

A GREEMENT was reached in Sheffield last week concerning the legal position of the city's 175 railway delivery drivers, and the...

A S recorded briefly two weeks ago, the 1964 edition of the C-licence Year Book published by the Traders Road TranspOrt...

rTh. A NEW branch at Rowley Road, Coventry, will be opened next Monday by B.R.S. (Parcels) Ltd. The transit shed covers an area...

THE Liverpool eliminating round of the Lorry Driver of the Year Competition will be held on June 14. Organizing secretary is...

THROUGHOUT Europe goods traffic I carried by road has increased at least as fast as the total national product; public road and...

A S1X-CAR rigid Carveyor transporter has now been built by Carter Engineering Co. (Tamworth) Ltd. The equipment is fitted to a...

THERE were nearly lg m. motor I vehicles in use on the roads of Great Britain during the third quarter of 1963, when the annual...

From John F. Moon, Amsterdam. Wednesday THERE is a distinct passenger-vehicle 1 influence at this year's Amsterdam Commercial...

T HE Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. Maudling, stuck firmly to the timehonoured formula of not anticipating his Budget when he...

L ICENCES for lorries of 10 tons and over probably bring in about 000,000 a year—but that is not enough to satisfy all IVI.P.s....

A SKED to make mud flaps compulsory on all vehicles, Mr. Marples said in the House this week that he would wait until the Road...

FROM OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT nESPITE Mr. Marples' declaration that he would let Bristol Commercial Vehicles Ltd. be sold...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT N . agreement has been reached yet in the three-poInt claim for higher pay, shorter hours...

From our Industrial Correspondent W ITH the public hearings concluded. the five members of the Phelps Brown Committee of...

33 garages operated by the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co. Ltd., will hold a one-day strike tomorrow (Saturday) in...

QUNDERLAND TRANSPORT COM MITTEE, which decided some time ago against the policy of building a municipal bus station, is being...

L AST Saturday, United Automobile Services Ltd. placed in service the first of its new fleet of 36-ft. rear-engined coaches for...

A DECISION on an application for a Contract A to A switch for 11 artics by George Tait and Son Ltd., of Leith, was deferred by...

T HE demand by the public for feeder services from the North. Wales area to link up . with extended tours was stressed by Mr....

THE contracting firm of P. Merriman, Thurrnaston, Leicestershire, was given permission by the East Midland Licensing Authority...

T HE Transport Tribunal, sittin g in London on Tuesday, referred an application back to the Northern deputy Licensin g...

T HE Transport Tribunal on Wednesday reserved its decision in an appeal by Sam Lon g son Ltd., hauliers of Chapel-enle-Frith a...

A N appeal by Ralph Charles Cropper. transport consultant, a g ainst conviction for makin g a false statement to obtain a...

A HAULIER, said to have received PA a warnin g in 1962 for carryin g unauthorized loads, was told by Mr. C. R.' Hodgson, the...

of the Hargreaves Group Ltd. on June 30 this year and will be succeeded as chairman by Brig. Kenneth Hargreaves, managing...

I N his presidential address to the Society of Engineers on Monday, Mr. Donald W. Tull expressed dismay at the views expounded...

Steering Terms and Problems TRACK AND TOE-IN are well-known words in the vehicle repair trade. But other words closely allied...

and Publications Route Planning "TWO maps just published by the Ordnance Survey are J. designed particularly for...

H AVING made a whirlwind three-week tour of North America in true political " whistle-stop" style, I found myself in possession...

BY FRANK BURRAVOE R OAD transport operators, passenger or goods, need not be apprehensive about the new legislation which is to...

R.H.A. secretary-general gives his views to Institute of Transport; calls for long-term wage contracts FOR , professional road...

IN recent years the major United States goods-vehicle I manufacturers have been taking increasing interest in a type of light...

By The Hawk Architects and planners, doubtless, will note with some interest that Mr. Marples has once again turned down...

Reinforced plant fleet aids Northumberland in fight to keep traffic moving in conditions of snow and ice BY ASHLEY TAYLOR,...

be less than precise about road transport?" I T is easy to understand that road operators should be annoyed as well as baffled...

L ABOUR is undoubtedly a major factor in any transport undertaking, if only because of the numbers employed and the cost...

SYSTEM TO PROVIDE AUTOMATICALLY-GUIDED BUS FURTHER to the views of Mr. K. Woods and "Expatriate Novocastrian " published in...