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TIR Compass Guides, are available from W. H. R. Godwin, 36 Swains Lana, London N6, at £4.00 each (£15.00 for all four) or direct from the publishers, TIR Verlags AG, 4123-Allschwil, Switzerland, price SFr 15-.
PUBLICATION of the last two volumes of the TIR Compass Guide, information-packed paperbacks designed to help shippers, operators and drivers in international haulage, completes the set of four which cover the following countries: Middle East and countries en route from Europe (No. 1); Portugal, Spain, France, Switzerland, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt (No. 2); the UK, Ireland, Benelux and West Germany (No. 3); Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland and the USSR (No. 4).
The guides, published in Switzerland, represent the first comprehensive coverage of essential information such as passport and visa requirements, health and inoculation rules, public holidays and traffic restrictions for commercial vehicles.
Vehicle weights and dimen sions are set out clearly for all permitted truck /trailer combinations.
A list of foreign diplomatic representation in each countrty is supplemented by details of first-aid and vehicle recovery services available. Full details and addresses are given of the service facilities for most makes of vehicle and there are outline maps showing through routes in each country with the more important frontier crossings.
Documentation and permit requirements, opening hours of Customs posts and currency regulations are included as is a reference to bilateral agreements in force.
Each guide has an introductory key in German, English and French. B.C.-H.
International HGV Driver's Handbook, compiled by Jeffrey Johnson, and published for Crane Fruehauf by Kogan Page Ltd, 120 Pentonville Road, London, Ni, at £1.00.
YOUR DRIVER is in Germany and is looking for somewhere to park "Wo is der .Parkplatz fur. Lastwagen bitter he says, with the aid of his phrase book,
which is sectioned — "Through Customs"; "A puncture"; "Food and Drink"; and so on.
"Bed and breakfast"; "Quisiera una habitacion para una noche" he says in Spanish or he can also ask in French, Italian, Dutch, Swedish or Turkish — one that's more tricky, admittedly. "I'd like a room for one night" is "Bir geceligine bir oda istiyorum". It's less than a pocket-size book and very handy, with a dictionary, with words like "inner tube," plus Fruehauf addresses in the UK and Europe. J.F.D.
Daimler Buses in Camera by Stewart J. Brown is published by Ian Allan, Teimina! House, Shepperton, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, at E4.95.
THE HISTORY of the Daimler marque in the bus world is explored and ably illustrated with photographs from the early part of the century to the present day is this attractive volume, Daimler buses operating as far afield as South Africa and Hong Kong are shown in the volume which gives the complete story, although not necessarily in chronological order, up to the marques final sinking to obscurity within the Leyland group. N.M.
Rust & Rot, by R. M. E. Diamant, lecturer in Chemical Engineering at Salford University, published by Angus & Robertson (UK) Ltd, 2 Fisher Street, London, WC1 at £2.50.
THIS little book is illustrated and tells you "what to do to treat two major enemies of modern living". Besides dealing with vehicles it has chapters on domestic boilers and heating systems and on materials other than metal and wood.
It's down to earth advice includes, for instance, comments in dealing with rusted in bolts. Nuts, it says, can often be released by the use of paraffin or commercial easing oil. Finally, virtually all rust can be dislodged by leaving the affected part in the following solution overnight: 1 part stannous chloride, 20 parts concentrated hydrochloric acid. This solution effectively dissolves all rust, but does not attack steel overmuch. Care must be taken in handling it owing to the corrosive nature of the acid. J.F.D.