If tipper operators fail to rise to the challenge of last weekend's Road Haulage Association convention they deserve whatever...

• One prominent Labour Member of Parliament who does not favour licensing restrictions is Privy Councillor Douglas Jay. He told...

by Derek Moses • A surprise announcement made this week is that Mr. R. L. R. HUlme, joint managing director of Strachans...

• So many factors have arisen during the past two years to make goods-in-transit insurance more costly and more difficult to...

• After "Container commentary" on page 60 had closed for press it was learned that the Southampton dock labour had refused to...

• Mr. Richard Marsh told MPs this week that he had varied the conditions applying to a large number of past consents for bus...

• An index to Commercial Motor Volume 128 (August 1968 to January 19691 is now in print. Copies are available, at 1s each, post...

• A High Court judge was told on Tuesday that a 20-ton diesel lorry was given diesel fuel adulterated with petrol when the...

IL Speaking to the Industrial Transport Association's Forth division on Monday, Mr. A. Havard, deputy director of freight...

• London meat carriers have stated that they cannot be expected to meet dock storage charges, no matter in what circumstances...

• An operation involving the carriage by road of 160,000 tons annually of limestone is being switched entirely to rail as one...

• A total expenditure of £62.5m is planned by the British Transport Docks Board over the next five years on new developments...

• McCall and Greenshields Ltd., Kilmarnock, one of Ayrshire's independent road transport companies, has purchased the haulage...

• As Commercial Motor reported last month (April 4) a new training group has been started in the North West, On Monday the...

• Closer collaboration between local cooperative groups or units of tipping vehicle operators is planned and the RHA is to...

• The recommendations made last month by the Freight Transport Association—they include an increased margin of tolerance for...

• Mr. Geoffrey Page was re-elected president of the FTA at its agm last week. Mr. Page, who has been with J. Lyons and Co. Ltd....

• A special sub-committee has been set up by the Freight Transport Association to consider the A. D. Little report,...

• Sir Reginald Wilson, chairman, National Freight Corporation, has agreed to chair the panel of judges for the essay...

• Goods vehicle operators applying for an appointment for plating and testing are reminded by the MoT of the importance of...

• Plans for spending £2m or, the expansion of production facilities for Albion trucks in Scotland were revealed by Mr. Ronald...

In association w;th Commercial Motor, siness and Industrial Tralning Ltd is ganizing two one-day seminars w exPla , n the...

by Carolyn HyaMS • Liverpool has at last got a new champion driver. For the past four years J. C. Kendrick (Paraffin...

• Racehorses and professional sprinters are up at the crack of dawn for training sessions in order to hide their form until...

by R. D. Cater, AMInst BE • With the introduction of a fully automatic gear-changing version of the Atlantean double-decker,...

• Orders pieced by Teesside Municipal Transport for 15 new buses have been split between Leyland and Daimler. Five Leyland...

• Free bus services were introduced by the Port of London Authority on Monday. April 28, serving the Royal Docks (two routes)...

• To avoid confusion with Passenger Transport Authorities, frequently referred to as "PTAs", the Public Transport Association...

• London Transport's 36ft standee single-decker buses are in the news again. This time it is the Autofare buses running in...

• The Government is to look again at the limitations set on express feeder services in the Transport (London) Bill, promised...

• Government claims that the travelling public of London would determine—by their votes—whether they accepted the transport...

• Further congestion and waiting time for road transport in London docks would be caused by the proposed closure of the western...

• In a written judgment the Transport Tribunal has allowed the appeal by Purle Waste Disposal (South Eastern) Ltd. against the...

• D. L. Blake and Co. Ltd., of Merthyr Tydfil, was granted two additional artics on A licence at a public inquiry in Cardiff...

• Mr. C. R. Hodgson, chairman of the North Western Traffic Commissioners, asked the general manager of Leigh Corporation...

• The West Midland LA, Mr. J. Else, warned an operator in Birmingham last Friday: "Don't use this vehicle for another moment on...

• The Silver Jubilee luncheon of the National Association of Warehouse Keepers will be held at the Savoy Hotel, London, on...

• An operator who had been warned in March 1968 about operating from Learnington Spa when he was authorized from Leominster had...

S. L. Stepley, 51, has been appointed General Manager of Coast Lines Group Road Transport. Mr. Stepley advises the managing...

Two companies, A. and J. R. Davison Ltd., Brighouse, and its wholly owned subsidiary 11 miles away in Hipperholme, Charles Wood...

Illi Special express coach services will he operated by Crosville Motor Services Ltd. between Llandudno and Aberystwyth to...

• According to the Transport Tribunal's annual report for 1968, during that year 45 new appeals were lodged; eight were not...

pressure piston engine by Paul Brockington • A piston engine having a gas-turbine-type combustion chamber external to the...

• A ring of corrugated rubber of minimal thickness is the special feature of a new hydrodynamic rotary oil seal announced last...

• Four new Albion Chieftain I 5-ton-gross four-wheelers ordered by Heavy Transport (ECC), Par, Cornwall, are to be equipped...

Combustibles and spontaneous heating Safe and unsafe storage (5) • Spontaneous heat can also be generated by reactions other...

Maintenance Q and A • A great deal of interesting technical information, as well as useful guides to vehicle maintenance, is...

BOOKS IV and V of the series "Related Subjects for Motor Vehicle Mechanics" by D. Keen, senior lecturer, Motor Trades...

REPORT BY JOHN DARKER, AMBIM, AND PAUL MOODY Consultant slams Transport Act's obscurities A WIDE FIELD of topics was covered...

*Racing back Due back in London on Sunday is T. J. Addis, the haulier from Lambeth, after having sprinted across the Atlantic...

Also involved in racing, but in a different element at a different time, is South London haulier Ralph Hilton, who runs the...

Boat and Yachting, the July round-Britain race will in fact provide some interesting motor industry rivalry. As well as the...

I was interested to learn last week of developments in high-speed brake testing which are expected to bear fruit next year. The...

Not having had much to do with Lex since the days when it simply owned garages in London, I was suitably impressed to learn...

This seems a time for jubilees and celebrations. Last week K.J. Motors Group, of Bromley, Kent, held a very lively party to...

Drivers and conductors from the Northern General Transport Co. Ltd. depot at Washington, Co. Durham, are taking karate lessons...

A member of the Merseyside PTA complained at the authority's first meeting that there was nowhere for him to park his car. The...

W fvfcLucas (Scottish I Oliver ' tipper as Ks or more by Ashley Taylor, AMIRTE, Assoc Inst T. NECESSARILY the third RHA...

comparisons and recommendations Although co-ordination and integration of urban transport are themes to be studied at length...

THERE IS considerable consternation among container men about the swing away from the standard ISO recommended cross section...

THE CAT was certainly let out of the bag at the conference which ran in conjunction with the recent Ports and Terminals...

NOT that Tilbury isn't busy, containerwise. US Lines are still loading and unloading containers from across the Atlantic, and a...

IT IS NOT only PLA. OCL and ACT who are suffering because of the labour disputes at Tilbury. The National Freight Corporation...

LAST MONTH, I disclosed the fact that a new hopper/tipper container was to be displayed at the Ports and Terminals Exhibition,...

THREE hearty cheers for the National Freight Federation (NFC) for supplying badly needed guidance for hauliers for securing...

A SIGN of the times in this new container age—hauliers figuring prominently in the affairs of a port. The port is Felixstowe...

Uncertain future AFTER a long struggle many years ago Parliament agreed that its debates should be heard in public and later...

PERHAPS because of the nature of their job tipper operators seem to be more articulate—they are certainly more vociferous— than...

The next seven days from May 9—May 15 FRIDAY Start of 10-day International Motor Exhibition. Helsinki. Start of two-day loTA...

completing a recognized apprenticeship and at present am employed as a design engineer in the commercial vehicle industry....

have been doing some practicing and have been tested on the lines of the proposed heavy goods vehicle drivers' licence scheme....

(CM April 4 1969) that police officers do not have powers to inspect commercial vehicles under Section 183 of the Road Traffic...

46ff ' and Holland in order to take a look at road transport in general and distribution and vehicle maintenance in particular....

tax a Land-Rover as a private vehicle if the folding back seats are fixed and it is used to pull a trailer in which goods are...

a Scammell 25ton tractive unit used with a drawbar trailer and an articulated semi-trailer also taxed as a locomotive. Will...

A The maximum permissible width for a 1– • normal load is 9ft 6in. but the load must not project more than 1 ft on either side...

engines and have heard that it is possible to cool the cylinders with the exhaust gas. This sounds absurd. Can you enlighten...

TT IS PLEASING to report that the second year of the Institute of Traffic Administration's examination scheme shows encouraging...

PEOPLE often say to me: "If I read traffic regulations I just cannot understand them," and I have to agree that the law is...