T HE Minister of Transport is an impatient woman. She told the Labour Party conference on Monday that this was so. Now...

I HAVE decided to review the general scope and detailed provisions of vers' hours to bring them into line with )dern...

['HE Road Haulage Association revealed on Tuesday that it had received a letter from the Einistry of Transport inviting views...

National council refers main RHA reorganization proposals to the chairman's committee for a second opinion; co-operative units...

RE than 500 operator members of the RHA, TRTA, and NAWFR on Tuesday heard a forecast by Mr. W. L. Baxter, senior engineer of...

ly John Darker, AMB1M M ENDIP tipper operators at an open meeting at Coleford last week were ;iven an extraordinarily...

M ANY British schoolboys will have reason to be grateful, or othe wise, to M. and S. Shipping Ltd. for a consignment which wi...

A GUIDE to the application to C-license( vehicles of the Food Hygiene (Markets Stalls and Delivery Vehicles) Regulations 1966...

THE East Midland traffic area advisor3 committee has appointed Mr. K. S. Robingm, of A. R. Marshall and Sons (Haulage: Ltd.,...

ROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT T HE strike of car delivery drivers of the Longbridge group of delivery agents in Birmingham...

TT was revealed this week that the East Midlands 1 Licensing Authority had refused the bids by 47 applicants to carry goods for...

Brigadier E. V. Molyneux as director of its new road transport service which will control activities of the NCB fleet and also...

THE North-West and the South-East of England accounted for nearly 30 per cent of the total tonnage of all goods moved by road...

AN attempt to force officers of the Scottish Transport and General Workers Union to put an end to the "blacking" of goods at...

R ATES and costs were a matter of some contention at Manchester on Friday when 16 B-licence applications were heard together by...

V IGMORE Transport Ltd. appealed to the Transport Tribunal on Tuesday ;ainst the decision of the South Eastern icensing...

A l application by G. Sweeney Transport Ltd., for a new A licence for six vehicles must fail in general, said the North Western...

licence grant N application fora new A licence by the Castle Storage and Forwarding Co., of Chapel Street, Liverpool, was...

A . FIRM of bus operators in Stanley, Co. Durham, was on Monday given permission to increase fares. cut out some buses, and...

THE Eastern deputy Licensing Authority, sitting at Wisbech on Friday, reserved his decision on the action to be taken over the...

A SIX months' suspension of its sole licence was imposed on Excelsior Transport Ltd., Riverside Drive, Dundee, in Dundee last...

CONTRACTIONS: add. additional: agric., agricultural art.. articulated unit; c., cwt.; g.g. general goods; GB.. Great Britain;...

APPLICATIONS (September 28 1966) Frank Thoburn, Newcastle Upon Tyne. A var.. add. 1 veh. (41). Walter Pick, Bellingham. New B...

APPLICATIONS (September 30 1966) A. S. Jones and Co. Ltd., Liverpool. A var.. add. 1 veh. Ii Oi-t1 (tipper/tank). A. Burgess...

APPLICATIONS (September 281966) Slater's Transport Ltd., Kirby Misperton. A var.. add. 1 art. (10-1-0. D. L. Lane (Metals)...

APPLICATIONS (September 29 19661 Sollis' Evesharn Road Transport Ltd.. Evesharn. A vs add. 1 veh. (4i-t). Fruit and vegetables....

APPLICATIONS (September 27 19661 R. Patterson, Hilperton. New A lic.. 1 veh. I7t). Mainl goods for Bath Cabinet Makers and Avon...

PPLICATIONS tootember 29 19136/ ohnsons (Air Freight) Ltd.. West Drayton. Middx. New lic., 2 veh. (40. Air Freight for...

rHAT NONSENSE VORMAL USER Part II I this second of his 2-part report, the writer analyses in .pth this bane of A licensees 1...

'ermine Ixpansion 1RDERS from Bermuda and Jersey as well as from municipal operators on the British tinland are a feature of...

V part of a big economy drive, Newcastle upon n Tyne Corporation is to attempt to delay the :livery of new buses for its...

A N important contract worth Zim. has been received by Metropolitan-Cammell-Weymann Ltd., for single-deck bus bodies for London...

T HE days of London's double-decker buses are not numbered, says Mr. E. C. Ottaway, member of London Transport Board...

A BUS chief told a conference last week that if the peak rush hours could be cut by the staggering of working time in...

W ITH success in their recruiting drive for more bus crews the Thames Valley Traction Company hopes that within the next few...

O o Tuesday the East Kent Road Car Co. Ltd, celebrated its golden jubilee with a lipcheon in Folkestone. East Kent Road Car...

PIKE'S transport authority, CIE, is to oper luxury coach tours next year to take in 1 only all Ireland, but England, Scotland a...

SIR DONALD STOKES, deputy chairman and managing, eiirector of Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd., will be in a seven-man London...

VERY one of the new Bedford "heavies" —the 14/22-ton KM range—that the Dunble truck plant can produce in the next six ,ntlis is...

IOAD transport requires an internationkh. ally uniform method of testing diesel iaust smoke, according to two German )erts...

From A. J. P. WILDING, Paris VRENCH manufacturers have made the -11; most important introductions in the commercial vehicle...

A T a new factory at Oswestry, Salop, a long established manufacturer of railway airbrake equipment is producing air-pressure...

n . road tankers OM OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT REGULATION increasing the permitted capacity of road petroleum tankers to...

A N economic development committee for motor vehicle distribution and repair has been formed under the aegis of the National...

ITITH the load-carrying platform now V on the semi-trailer in ever increasing mbers, covered winter parking is a rity between...

dent during the 1965/6 winter that brought this fact home in a most expensive fashion. At one end of an articulated trunk...

AN American trade mission arriving in London this month will include Mr. J. V. Thurmond of Pak-Mor Manufacturing Co., San...

g adhesive that cures inside the joint but remains sufficiently soft outside the joint to be wiped off has been developed by...

D EVELOPED for general industrial and domestic use, the Clamcleat Junior is designed to secure a rope by jamming. It permits...

D ESIGNED for carrying a cable weigh 8 cwt. and having a diameter of 3 6 in., the prototype of a special two-whee drum trailer...

rese items attracted the attention of six members of during the closing hours to make a final round-up of MMERC1AL MOTOR'S...

nearly Elm. worth of goods were stolen by robbery and theft from commercial vehicles. The Metropolitan Police are seriously...

of transport are problems which every operator has to grapple with and never more so than at the present time. Newcomers to the...

this year's exhibition Jat Earls Court there was one piece of uipment that caught my eye as being of :at use to the fleet...

tests of commercial vehicles become effective, operators are going to have to send their vehicles to Ministry of Transport...

of the bodywork !accessory and tool stands at this ar's Commercial Motor Show I was ompanied by three bodybuilding shop...

View BY THE HAWK All Things To All Men T HE older brethren at this year's MPTA dinner in Dublin were perhaps in the best...

Just before the Earls Court Show opened, COMMERCIAL MOTOR editor Alan Havard, and technical editor Tony Wilding, sat down with...

A PETROL-ENGINED VERSION OF THE USG/ PITT R35 OUTFIT PERFORMED WELL WHEN RECENTLY TESTED BY THE AUTHOR BY R. D. CATER A M I...

ot the First R. JOHN R. BILLOWS is wrong in thinking that the Scaniabis was the first turbocharged vehicle to be tested by your...

/iN open invitation to operators to give A their opinions on how transport and stribution productivity might be improved, ad to...

O NE-TINIE Conservative spokesman on transport Mr. Enoch Powell has had the courage to speak up against the prevailing misuse...

Inevitably the railways were represented at the London conference. So far as can be judged from reports of the discussions road...

Liquid fuel was one of Professor Buchanan's examples. He might have gone on to point out that in practice fuel rationing was...

Much to be commended is his picture t Oxford Street as an existentialist Hell. ' _simply refuse to believe," he said, - that if...

THE FIRST STEP! AFTER a long interval since a declaration of intent was first made, the order constituting the industrial...

A Possibly in due course, but not for many years yet? In fact it is unlikely that diesel engines will be produced in this form...

A The basic "The Motor Vehicles (Construc tion and Use) Regulations 1963" is obtainable from HM Stationery offices or...

ability of fitting an exhaust brake where this is available as an optional extra? One is given to understand that they can be...

on prices and incomes and what are the main features of the appropriate Act? A These are set out in the Prices and Incomes Act...

near future in the application of the demountable-container type of refuse collector? A Yes, the compacting type is certainly...

my traffic controllers, particularly in the use of telephones? operate 60 vehicles and the time taken and the nervous energy...

ber of trailers are used in conjunch with vans and pickups that each trai should be covered by a carrier's licence a should the...

munici passenger transport undertakings in urbations such as Merseyside into la, regional transport units. The reason givei...

THE Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co. has announced an unchanged interim dividend of 2 per cent. The total distribution...

Lecturer to" Transport , MMEDIATE PROBLEMS FOR TRAINING BOARD r HE announcement of the members of the Road Transport Training...