MOTOR VOLUME 121 Nn, 3116 , May 7, 1965 V alue for Money IT is no idle boast to describe British commercial vehicles as world...

The next seven days, May 7-13. NO1111 of Scotland round Lorry Driver Competition. Al the Corporation Transport Depot, Elgin...

A STRONG attack on the Minister of Transport's inquiry into inland transport is made in the Road Haulage Association's annual...

for the half year ended December 31 last was up by 10 per cent, and net profits 12 per cent. The board hopes for a minimum 10...

IMEXT Wednesday the national council IN of the Road Haulage Association will consider the Government's reference to the...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT A QUESTIONNAIRE from the National Board for Prices and Incomes will go out this week-end to...

FROM \A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT r.L10ENSED transport should be included in a road transport training board; it would be quite...

From Our Industrial Correspondent COLLOWING the go-ahead received from the Minister of Transport, the British Railways Board...

Li ATTER rothers (Grays, Essex), I through their subsidiary, Hatter Shipping Services Ltd., have recently acquired a Dutch...

the last remaining bottlenecks on Al he opened on May 14 by the Minister of Transport. Constructed at a total cost of some £61...

pRITIStl. ROAD SERVICES rates for general haulage are to be increased by 5 per cent from June I. This follows the recornm...

C ARTER ENGINEERING CO. ‘-.0 (TAM WORTH) LTD. is now licensed to manufacture American Anchorlok spring brake equipment in this...

HE familiar green of Ulster Trans" port Authority freight vehicles is soon to disappear. Northern Ireland Carriers Ltd., who...

T TRADE-PLATE drivers in the Midi lands—the men who deliver new commercial vehicles and cars to distributors, commercial...

acquired the firm of Phillip W. Smith (Nottingham) Ltd. and its subsidiary companies Phillip Smith (1947) Ltd. and Phillip...

THE Traders Road Transport Association and the Road Haulage Association are jointly sponsoring a meeting to be held at the...

British-built Perkins diesel engines are to be produced at the Kaiser Jeep of Canada plant at Windsor, Ontario. Two models will...

A ROUND 50 people have booked for the £1. transport management course at Luton College of Technology, whose opening day,...

From 4. J_ P. Wilding, Pyatigorsk, Tuesday evening THE Ford 10,000-mile endurance run 1. with new fl-Series lorries is now well...

Labour signed the order giving his approval to the increase in haulage employees' pay proposed I” the Road Haulage Wages...

division of the industrial Transport Association in Edinburgh last week, the chaitma FI, Mr. ' A. Raeside, extended a welcome...

R FCENT statistics reveal that 59 per cent of Belgian haulage concerns own only one vehicle and 23 per cent two-three vehicles....

1 of Transport said he hoped for an improvement in commercial vehicles' intaleuards. - 1 he Road Research Laboratory's report...

D RAS - M' changes in public transport are likel■ to result from the land tise - transport studies now being undertaken in most...

A FULL-SCALE trial of rear-engined L - 1double-deck buses is to be made by Edinburgh Corporation Transport, following the...

L EADERS of London's 15,000 busmen are to concentrate on getting higher pay for their members, writes our Industrial...

S EVEN of the new CM.6 coaches being built by Midland Red for motorway operation are now in service. This was reported by Mr....

A T the annual meeting of Midland Red reported above, Mr. Wills condemned the unofficial Saturday strikes being conducted at...

vXPERIENCE is being gained by BEA from the operation on actual passenger service of the Routemaster; luggage trailer...

PSV introduced by Dennis Bros.. succeeds t h e Falcon. It has a Perkins 5-litre engine of 89 15.11.p. and a Dennis UO 5-speed...

O N two recent Scottish public holidays 1April 5 and 19) Edinburgh City Police introduced a very severe ban on parking in the...

Omnibus Co. Ltd. and its associate companies. Notts and Derby Traction Co. Ltd. and Mansfield and District Traction Co. Ltd.....

Omnibus Services Lid. for the year ' ended March 31 last amounted to £751,873 . compared with £682.750 in the previous year....

two Avariation applications by a Cheadle haulier to add a total of seven artics to a fleet of 15 vehicles, the West Midland...

A T Hexham (Northumberland) this week, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, the Northern Licensing Authority, granted Road Services...

D ESPITE strong opposition from British Railways—the sole objector— an application by Distributor Deliveries Ltd., of Plymouth,...

T HE S.E. Licensing Authority, Maj.Gen. A. F. J. Elmslie, put some challenging questions to the principal customer witness at a...

A N application by Peter McCallum and Sons Ltd., of Airdrie, for an A variation to add 12 articulated units of 131 tons, was...

A S this picture shows, production of liner train (or " express freightliner ") containers is going ahead at full speed in BR's...

J. Wharton and Sons Ltd. and others against a 30-vehicle B-licence grant to Merchants Mutual Association (Fleetwood) by the...

At"`" . !GH the Transport Tribunal president advised an appellant to withdraw his appeal or request an )djournment so that he...

The Cminiterciai Motor, we stated that a giant 01 550 vehicles had been made by the North Western deputy Licensing • Authorit...

the applicant may lose one or two vehicles, and I am quite prepared to grant an adjournment," said Mr. Else, the W...st Midland...

I N a reserved written decision, the Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner, Mr. D. I. R. Muir. has refused the application by...

Omnibus Co. Ltd. for variations on two express services between Southend and Victoria Coach Station. and one express service...

Requests in Six Areas NORTHERN APPLICATIONS (April 28, 1965) Haley Bros. (Cimpweil) Ltd., Chopwell, A var., add I art. (100....

A PROGRAMME of standardization of its low-loading trailers and semi-trailers has been started by Crane Fruehauf Trailers Lid....

THE South African Railways and Harbours Administration has ordered 10 luxury buses from Datsun Motor Vehicle Distributors, and...

T HE. vec-engine production agreemeat bemeen Jaguar Cars Ltd., Covemi and ( 'unimins Engine Co. Inc., of Columbus. Indiana,...

THE fourand six-cylinder diesel engines developed from existing units by the Ford Motor Co. Ltd. for the new D range are to be...

T °provide standards of braking exceeding the requirements of the latest C. and U. regulations, ERF Ltd. twill use actual...

use of rubber in sound and vibration reduction, and aspects of traffic noise will be among the subjects dealt with in papers to...

include more than 200 of the four-wheel-drive R-type. Of these, 56 have been ordered by the Public Works Department of Kuching,...

and p.s.v. in March this ,year showed a marked increase over February's figures and those for March, 1964, both production and...

TYPICAL of the trailer equipment manufactured by R. A. Dyson and o. Ltd. for export mainly to the oilfields 3f the world, this...

"Things about Rings" A T some time during the middle-life n. of an oil engine action has to be aken that at times eventually...

worth passing on to tither readers? It must relate to maintenance practice. If a panel, on which Handyman sits, considers your...

and Publications Close-coupled Four-wheel Trailer ,N NEW trailer, the FB-1-RS, with a capacity of one ton, is to r - k. be...

By The Hawk Standing Ovation To the obvious delight of the popular TRTA president, Mr. K. C. Turner, his principal guest at...

Vital Role of AnciIlar ransport Examined T HE second national conference of the Traders Road Transport Association, held last...

A T the first meeting of the new national council, on Saturday, Mr. K. C. Turner was re-elected president of the TRTA for the...

Removers 'discuss current topics at Leamington By S. BUCKLEY, AssocInstT INDUSTRIAL training was a major topic at the Annual I...

At the AGM of the NAFWR held last week, the following officers were elected :—president. Mr. A. II. M. Walker: senior...

FOR BEDFORD IT'S WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL COPENHAGEN' —AND VICE VERSA BY NORMAN H. TILSLEY DENMARK is, without a doubt, Bedford...

By A. J. P. Wilding A NII Pei ech E, MIRTE ROAD TEST: Leyland Bonneted Super Comet B R ITISH vehicle makers in general have...

wide range available By P. A. C. BROCKINGTON, A M I Mech E KNOW YOUR FILTERS A HIGH concentration of dust in the atmosphere...

NEW FORD '0' SERIES TRUCKS BREAK NEW FRONTIERS IN TOUGHEST ENDURANCE TEST! LONDON TO LONDON VIA SOCHI-10,000 MILES! At this...

the Tariff Barriers British friction material makers benefit from long export experience F OR more than 50 years British...

Who would ever have expected that a Labour Minister of 'ransport would appear to support independent hauliers against trade...

but almost all the important newcomers are missing A REVIEW OF ROAD TESTS BY THE TECHNICAL EDITOR A s is usual in a...

• • • S • • • • • • • • • • • • • Off-beat Costings V ALIDITY of costing comparisons was the subject of an article in this...

O N SUNDAY I was treated to a free ride to Brighton with the Historic Commercial Vehicle Club. As guests of Ernie Quinton, the...