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184 The year of the lorry

T FRIDAY members of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders are to have a le viewing of our video presentation "Drive...

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Quota stalemate

FOR THE SECOND year running there will be no increase in the EEC permit quota in 1984 and Britain's allocation will remain at...

Leyland few

A FOUR PER CENT rise in mercial vehicle output next will not be enough to talc( industry out of the del& that it has been in...

Progress on hours? Hope in Brussel;

NEXT YEAR might at last see some belated progress in the review of the EEC Regulations on driver's hours and tachographs,...

Ulster tachos

TACHOGRAPH and tyre regulations in Northern Ireland are being altered. The maximum penalty for failing to install or use a...

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flassey Ferguson's 'historic' deal

Perkins pines 'ROPOSED takeover of :oyce Diesels by Perkins es' Massey Ferguson company (CM. December le "most important...

Traffic increase says Dip

A BIG JUMP in the amount of heavy goods traffic on Britain's roads has been recorded by the Department of Transport,...

Dual key security

TWO COMPANIES with adjacent premises in Essex have become partners in a £90,000 security package to give comprehensive security...

Military orders

ORDERS worth around £25 million have been confirmed by the Ministry of Defence for 1,500 Bedford M-type lorries. The latest...

Jrkish ports congested

STION in Turkish ports has caused an increase in demand land freight, according to Whittle International Freight. c levels to...

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Turvey turns on cowboys

COWBOY OPERATORS came under renewed attack last week from the Freight Transport Association. Such operators brought the whole...

NFC

contracts WE TWO NATIONAL Frei Consortium subsidiaries won three contracts to su vehicles and trailers contract hire basis....

RTITB levy unchanged

THE ROAD Transport Industry Training Board levy remains at 0.8 per cent of hauliers' wage bills, following a Board meeting on...

Wages add 2.5pc to cos

THE CURRENT ROUND of wage settlements looks like adding 2.5 per cent to hauliers' operating costs, according to the Haulage...

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/limo° battle starts...

BATTLE over Strathclyde ; plans to operate special ces for the disabled — Re: Microbus services feeding V Metroliner coach — ad...

Competition ups subsidies bill

INCREASED competition for private operators on express routes and contract hires has meant a reduction in profit for Scottish...

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Flight licence cut

DRIVERS' HOURS convictions last July led to Flight Coach Travel having four of its 24 vehicles suspended for three months by...

Joint tours

INDEPENDENT coach opera Smith's of Reading, Surrey, ternational of Cranleigh (1 rey), and Victory Tours II collaborated to...

Commercial

LONDON TRANSPORT ha: tered into a commercial ser agreement with the Tram and General Workers' Unior This will enable it to...

National buys Futuras

NATIONAL TRAVEL London has ordered 10 Bova Futura FHD coaches from the Moseley Group of Loughborough. They will join 16 Bova...

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Cool way to split

ELOPMENT of an insulated ovable bulkhead, by body!der Lawrence David, rborough, allows insulated 3in-siders to offer benefits...

Automatic fuel heater

LUCAS CAV has introduced an in-line fuel heater suitable for all distributor pump applications and systems fitted with in-line...

Safer tail lift

HYDRAULIC engineering company Telehoist has introduced a new cantilever tail-lift called the Tellift. There are three sizes...

Scammell lift-off

SCAMMELL MOTORS has installed four Trepel double hydraulic scissor lifts in its newly opened automated paint shop. The scissor...

Budgets for bread line

SH BAKERIES has specified Dover Budget doors for 16 Leyland boxvans being built by Scottish bodybuilder Aitken CoacharS....

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A NEW stow-away lifting device, the Task-Haacon 1889, is now

available from Craven Tasker (Sheffield) Ltd. It has been designed for transferring containers, or portable cabins, to and from...

Stopping hijacks

AN ANTI-HIJACKING package, derived from a system first used with petroleum delivery fleets, has been marketed by First Security...

Top of the cableform

ELECTROFIT has been am ted the official distributoi Cableform products and ei ment. It is now offering a repaii spares...

tional has placed orders wi £600,000 with Belgian menu turers Van Hool NV.

The first 50 12m tri-a flatbeds were delivered f Van Hool's Lier factory to UK/Continent freight operatc early November. PTI...

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Seddons at Reliance

JOHN SEDDON has succeeded Trevor Seddon as managing director and chief executive of Reliance Tankers, the Altrincham,...

Meet Janet ...

JANET DAVIES is BRS Truck Rental sales executive at BRS Midlands' Morton's branch at Coventry. She is the only woman occupying...

Women in transport

A TWO-WOMAN team takes over next week in charge of Transport 2000, the pro-rail public transport and environmental lobby...

Mersey's reps

Bob Crossley, managing director of William Harper and Sons, haulage contractor, Liverpool, a subsidiary of the Transport...

Dow contract

A NATIONAL CARRIERS n ager has switched to D Freight Services, the Stockp based motor industry distr tion specialist. He is...

BCC winners

WEST MIDLANDS PTE's E neering training centre app tices have won the Bus Coach Council's 1983 psv prentice competition. Team...

Obituary

WE RECORD with regret the deaths of Colin Smith and Susao gaily. Mr Smith, 46, who had been ill for a year before his death on...

West Brom changes up

BROCKHOUSE MAXWELL Bus Transmissions now has its full team working on the production of gearboxes at West Bromwich. Chief...

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I had it coming to n!

3 Peter Thompson's lucky iber? It may be, but there ; no element of luck in the ional Freight Consortium irman's presence at...

)bin turns into a ? horse

READBARE joke confuses oyal Horse Artillery and the Haulage Association in the Is RHA. They could now I for Race Horse iation,...

Pickfords plays Santa Claus

FIRE and looting in an Ulster warehouse caused the loss of Christmas toys for the 900 children in Dr Barnardo's care in the...

An idea better late than never

A DRIVER who was struck by a car while changing a wheel was later struck by a bright idea while he was lying in hospital. He...

Sand makes vehicles last longer

ALTHOUGH it is hardly credible, sand seems to be one of the best preservatives for vehicles. I learn from The Daily Telegraph...

This idea was a washout

A RAILWAYMAN had a bra inwave that is expected to save British Rail £100,000 a year. Wash dirty high-visibility clothing...

Hauliers are such reasonable people

THE ETA has decided that hauliers are not such bad chaps after all. It is positively indulgent towards the latest RHA...

London Transport goes up the wall

THE TRAM has returned to London but happily only as part of a mural to enliven the exterior of the London Transport Museum...

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rvhat can't le hands do?

;anybody beat this for iciency? On Wednesday, 4, 1983, I broke down with _eyland (401 engine) outside . change Truck Services...

Quota corrections

THERE are a number of inaccuracies in Woodward's Way, CM November 19 you may wish to be aware of. • (Column 2, paragraph 3). A...

Taking the Mick

I HAVE just read with interest Mike Rutherford's article in your November issue of CM, in which the LDoY was telling tales of...

Seoul impressions

WITH reference to the article by Mike Rutherford on the Hyundas's pick-up (CM, November 26), it is so utterly biased it is not...

Too close for comfort

I WONDER if those drivers who annoy and frustrate J. Eastman (CM December 3) by driving with their high-intensity rear fog...

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Stately van for home and abroad

The Ford-based Asquith is a vintage replica in twenties style that makes for cheap advertising at a small operational premium...

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oot Express '1300

'ESTERS were kept busy ear starting on January 1 le Talbot Express 1 300 van our new light , van test The Express is a twin to...

Daf 2500 DHS

Des 2500 DHS was one of many 32-tonners to be offered this year with a power unit rated at around 250bhp. This power to weight...

Volkswagen Transporter

A second radiator grille on the front of the Volkswagen van and a D suffix to the Transporter badge indicated that the panel...

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Scania P112

Although built to a design weight of just under 46 tonnes, our Scania P112 4x2 tractive unit was put around the CM Scottish...

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land Terrier

'land's ageing 7.5-tonne 3r model was given a facevith aerodynamic aids by Windfoil. Superficially, the roofmounted deflector,...

Seddon Atkinson 301

In March Seddon Atkinson provided us with a double bite of the cherry in its new 301 tractive unit, powered by and designed...

mis Delta 1618

h the greater part of Hesennis's production devoted fuse vehicles and fire ng equipment we were reed in March that the cornalso...

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Fiat Ducato

Fiat's Ducato one-tonne van is a lighter version of the Talbot Express with which we started our road test programme. Fiat's...

Peugeot 504

A 2.3-litre diesel engine was fitted to the Peugeot 504 rear wheel-drive pick-up we tested in April. Peugeot was expecting...

Seddon Atkinson 401

To coincide with the uplif maximum weights we tested first 38-tonner of the year, Seddon Atkinson 401 4x2 t tive unit. It was...

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IF 31R4

RF's C-Series eight-wheeled er powered by a Rolls-Royce 51_ was tested round CM's gshot circuit. Rated at .5kW (261bhp), the...

Scania P82

Scania's eight-wheeler, the P82 8x2 RSI, provided a useful combination of power and drive line specification. The DSi8 7.8litre...

Ford Cargo 3220D

With an air-cooled Deutz engine, Ford was able to claim that the 3220 gives the highest payload of any 32-tanner. The payload...

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ercedes-Benz 1633

he most powerful right-hand ye tractive unit from Daimler-1z is the 1633, and we tested s in July. Its turbocharged vee ht...

lveco 165-24

In mid-July lveco with its 16524 tractive unit improved on the best recorded fuel consumption at 32 tons, returning 37,82...

Bedford TM 4400

The Detroit Diesel engine fitted to Bedford's 38-tonne TM 4x2 tractive unit had a relatively modest power output compared to...

Scania R112

Scania bided its time before entering the "intercooled" club with its 11and 14-litre engines. The wait was worth while for the...

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Leyland 17-28 Roadtrain

At 38:tonnes gcw, the Cummins E290 driving through a Spicer SST10 10-speed constant-mesh box was not found wanting in Leyland's...

ERF M16

ERF chose a non chargecooled version of Perkins's T6354.4 for its new M16 16-tonner. The sacrifice of a little extra power and...

MAN 10.136F

MAN's 10.136F does not look like a 10-tonner and does not drive like one either. It uses the MAN-VW MT cab, and although badged...

Bedford 1300S As1

Bedford's 1300S Astra var snappy performer. With a payload of 525kg, excludinc driver, it took only 11.5 sec( to accelerate...

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V LT28D

Aswagen's new 75bhp sixder engine has livened up performance of the LT van. ts new form, acceleration top speed are improved....

Bedford TL

Light turbocharging for Bedford's 5.4-litre engine gives it a maximum power rating of 80kW (107bhp). This is the optional...

Bedford CF250

Specifying GM's 2.3-litre fourcylinder diesel engine in Bedford's CF250 increases its kerb weight over that of the petrol...

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Bedford TM 3800

A careful qhoice of gearing by Bedford's engineers to match the power and torque output of Cummins's L10 engine enabled the TM...

lveco 159.17

lveco's 16-ton rigid, the 159.17, has been type approved for drawbar operation at 25.61 tonnes but we tested it solo. With a...

Volvo F10

Just as we were beginning to think that Volvo had gone to ground, we were able in November to publish a report on the slimmer...

Leyland Cruiser 16.23

The last vehicle to be tested i 1983, the Leyland Cruiser 16.2: was outwardly little differer from the 16.21 Cruiser which w...

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n memory of Mark

LAST SUNDAY we presented The Mark Vane Memorial Tom Curran of Roadline with the Mark Vane Memorial Awards for 1983. Tom...

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Statutory defences to traffic offences

With the best will in the world an operator in some circumstances may find himself seeming to break the law. Say a speedo fails...

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;afety leadlamp

HE WOLFLITE safety headlamp ould be a useful addition to ecovery Operators and mergency Services equipment. owered by...

II-round ehicle washer

Powerforce hot-water d steam cleaner is now priced £1,099 and offers full cold, hot d steam cleaning facilities. Designated the...

Batteries to rely on

OLDHAM BATTERIES has rationalised its car and light-van battery range to give a wide choice of performance options. The...

Adjustable truck mirror

ACUTE-ANGLED road junctions can often create problems of vision for drivers using normal, fixed position wing mirrors. To...

Exhaust removal

PROPER REMOVAL of exhaust gases should always be maintained when running vehicle engines in workshops and service bays....

Inspecting below

TO AID fitters inspecting the underside of vehicles, Jakdor introduced a new electronic inspection lamp. Resistant to oil and...