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Stop the brake fakes

2nd February 1980
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A WARNING about counterfeit tors probably made in the Far operators and stockists.

Announcing this in the Commons, Parliamentary Secretary for Transport Kenneth Clarke said the NBC had confirmed that all its subsidiary companies were checking to eliminate any possibility of counterfeits being used.

He recalled that following the failure of a diaphragm in one of its buses, Hants and Dorset Motor Services discovered it was counterfeit. It was diaphragms for brake activaEast has gone out to all bus replaced with a genuine British-made part and the matter was reported immediately to the Department of Transport.

Engineers had conducted investigations in collaboration with Hants and Dorset and a British manufacturer of the brake activators of which the diaphragms were part. It had not been possible to identify precisely where the counterfeit diaphragms were made.

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Organisations: Department of Transport
People: Kenneth Clarke

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