• CGL Truck Services of Manchester has won Renault Truck's
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dealer and sales award for 1987, which is battled for by over 30 dealers throughout the country.
Runner-up was Renault Trucks London and third was Skipper Truck Centre of Leeds. All three managers and their wives have won trips on the Orient Express.
• CityBus strikers in Plymouth got a slightly nicer cut when a butcher travelled all the way from Monmouth in Wales to give them free pork chops. Keith Howard — an exTransport and General Workers Union member — was determined to help the busmen when he heard of their protracted dispute.
• Striking Land Rover workers picketing the company's Solihull plant, have been ordered by management to clean-up an "eyesore" of tents, firewood and old boilers after complaints by local residents about the mess that accumulated during the dispute.
• Three men escaped to West Berlin last week by driving their 7.5-tonne truck clean through the fortifications on the Glienecker Bridge. Guards parted in their path. All in all, you're just another brick in the wall.
• "Why didn't you mention us? We were in on the act too," said Tidd Strongbox this week. The company rang to complain that our report two weeks ago on the TIP trailer auctioned in aid of the RHA's benevolent fund omitted to mention that the unit was made by Tidd. Well, it was, and now you know. It looks a jolly nice trailer too. Err . . . OK? • If life really starts at 40, this Land Rover is a bouncing baby. It is the first production Land Rover and will make a rare public appearances at Of( Road England at Donnington Park from 18-20 March.
In July 1948 it was sold to a Warwickshire farmer for the princely sum of £450 — extras such as the full hood and perspex side windows increased the price to £540.
Based on the wartime Jeep, the Land Rover had an aluminium body, caped with galvanised steel, mounted on a 150mm-deep chassis and equipped with three P'TOs to drive farm equipment. Its 1,595cc petrol engine, rated at 41kW (55hp), has an unusual JOE (inlet over exhaust) configuration. With a four-speed synchromesh gearbox, two-speed transfer box and free-wheeling front hubs, the Land Rover won export orders almost from day one. . happy birthday, and pass the Sanatogen.