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LDOY finals '86 • Next weekend more than 200 of the country's top truck drivers meet at the Cranfield Institute of Technology to compete in the Lorry Driver of the Year competition.
The contest is held on Sunday, September 7 and run on specially prepared sections of the airport adjacent to the Institute. All the drivers have won heats in 25 regional qualifying competitions.
William Madel MP for Bedfordshire South West will present the National Champion with the winner's trophy in a ceremony scheduled to begin at 5pm, Don Harris, whose report on overtaking behaviour caused such a rumpus recently, will be there as guest of the competition's sponsors United Transport. Harris will distribute copies of his overtaking questionnaire to commercial and car drivers among the 20,000 people expected to attend.
Details about the day's events are available from John Wells of the Lorry Driver of the Year Association on 090 66 5451.
IhiechE's fuel seminar
A two-day international conference, "Petroleum Based Fuels and Automotive Applications", is being held by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers at its London HQ, Birdcage Walk, on November 25 and 26.
As a result of various external pressures on the oil and motor industries, changes will take place during the next decade in the specification of fuel for gasoline and dieselengined vehicles, and also to trends in total vehicle design. These factors will have an impact on the behaviour of vehicles in relation to driveability, performance, fuel consumption, exhaust emissions, engine starting and noise.
The aim of the conference is to highlight the pressure on the oil and motor industries, both separately and jointly, that create the need for change; and the problems caused by these pressures and the changes that can be expected because of them, over the next ten years.
Speakers from a wide crosssection of UK and overseas companies and organisations in this field will contribute papers at the conference which is sponsored by IMechE's Automobile Division and cosponsored by the Institution of Petroleum. Telephone 01-222 7899.