IVA '79
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HAMBURG is planning t world's biggest internatior transport exhibition this sui mer, but road transport take only a comparatively r nor part And British COMM cial vehicle industry will pl only a minor role in that par However, a large number symposium papers will be pi sented, including one by D. Glassborow, from the Natior Bus Company, on technic and operational bus syste developments in Britain, June 19, one of two days d voted to public transpo technologies during the Sho. which is entitled IVA '79 al lasts from June 8 till July 1.
Preliminary exhibitors' lis reveal no plans for ax manufacturer to show lorri( but among the British exhil tors Leyland International w be displaying a London Tran port double-decker.
The organisers say th British exhibitors will be d monstrating computeris( road traffic management sy tems; control and supervisic systems for urban traffic, ; well as data collection ar evaluation systems; and ti motorway control syste • Autowarn.
• British participation will elude presentations by ti Department of Transpor London Transport; Metrt Cammell Ltd; Transport at Road Research Laborator: and Vickers (a mobile worl shop).
The exhibition is sponsorE by the German Governmei and Federal President Walt Scheel will officially open IV '79. One aim of the exhibitio is to put the industrialised nt dons' know-how in all sectot of transport technology at th disposal of countries from th Third World.
IVA '79 will fill the whole c the Hamburg Trade Fair Cer tre, with its 13 halls and oper air space.