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BARGAINING POWER

• "We're heading for a hell of a recession." Not much of a New Year's greeting is it? Still, that's the response from one of...

CM BUYER'S GUIDE 1990

• Our 330-page Buyer's Guide combines the familiar — and invaluable — Tables of Operating Costs with comprehensive CV...

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Racing dates agreed

• The European Championship truck racing meetings have been provisionally arranged for 21/22 April at Brands Hatch; 12/13 May...

RHA chairman named in New Year honours

• Roy Bowles, Road Haulage Association chairman and managing director of Roy Bowles Transport, is among road transport figures...

Rates squee; for hauliers in 1990

• Half of the hauliers questioned in the latest exclusive Commercial Motor survey have been unable to increase their rates over...

MP hits at M42 slip-up

• A new motorway slip road linking the M40 with the M42 has been condemned as "an invitation to suicide" by a local MP —...

Big wait on truck lengths

• A Freight Transport Association survey reveals that almost 60% of artic operators said they would take advantage of the 16.5m...

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Staff strike threat at Traffic Area Offices

/ Industrial action by Traffic Area Offices staff is likely if the Government refuses to follow industry recommendations about...

New tech rules OK

• Government plans to use new technology to enforce road traffic law have been largely welcomed by the Freight Transport...

Wilkes departure / Seddon Atkinson managing director Vic Wilkes is

leaving the company. He will be replaced by Michael Vargas, currently vicepresident of the defence and special products...

• Volkswagen has signed a deal with East German manufacturer

VEB IFAKombinat Personenkraftwagen to jointly produce light CVs. VEB has been making VW engines under licence since 1988.

Buying waste • Attwoods is to spend £3.79 million to

acquire Taskmasters Cleansing Services, which holds waste collection contracts with several local authorities.

Depot dropped • Hays Chemical Distribution is closing its Huddersfield depot. The nine employees have agreed redundancy terms.

Job cuts • Only 16% of transport operators plan to

take on staff in the first quarter of 1990, says the latest quarterly survey from employment services company Manpower — and...

Renault's Gee-up / Renault is to introduce a more powerful

lower-revving 38-tonne tractive unit in its G range. The G320 is almost identical to the current G290 except that its 9.8-litre...

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RHA calls for tax cuts

• The Road Haulage Association has called for the return of capital allowances and the raising of the corporation tax threshold...

Green Christmas

• On Christmas Day the level of carbon monoxide in London's air dropped by over 65% compared with the previous Monday,...

Talking traffic

• Transport Secretary Cecil Parkinson and Environment Secretary Chris Patten are meeting to discuss the effect of traffic...

Four managers cleared of British Rail swindle

• Four former managers of that defunct NH: subsidiary Fleetcare have been cleared of swindling "enormous" sums out of British...

Severn shortlist • Two construction consortia have been shortlisted to

build the second Severn Crossing which is due to open within five or six years. Transport Secretary Cecil Parkinson is expected...

Fleet deal for VL

• VL Bus & Coach has won a ,2.5 million order from South Yorkshire Transport for 50 Citybus single-deck 5.5m chassis, which...

Licences for waste moves

• Hauliers transporting any kind of waste will have to apply for a licence from the Waste Regulation Authority, under tough new...

LBTS to appeal

• The London Boroughs Transport Scheme has launched its appeal against last year's High Court ruling which criticised the...

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New length concessions

• Legislative delays will prevent operators from using 16.5m artics until mid-February at the earliest, says the Department of...

Saudi truck decision soon

• Leyland Daf expects to learn within the next eight weeks if it has won a 5,000truck deal with the Saudi Arabian army. The...

Green partners • lveco and Nissan Diesel plan to develop

a range of sixto eight-litre diesel engines. The two companies aim to minimise noise, pollution and fuel consumption, but the...

Cummins power • Cummins says that it closed the year

with over 21% of the UK HGV mar ket and that 23.8% of the trucks registered here in November had Cummins diesels, a record for...

Trailer Train signs Scandinavian deal

• Trailer Train has signed a technology licence with Norwegian State Railways and one of its major suppliers, EB Strommens...

Battery of Sevels

• An electric-powered version of the Sevel van, sold in this country as the Peugeot Talbot Express, the Citroen C25, and the...

DTp tightens control

• Tighter vehicle emission controls are on the way. Department of Transport regulations will require operators to keep engines...

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MMC blocks ferry giants

1 Plans by Sealink and P&O, he two biggest cross-Channel ?.rry operators, to operate a int service to compete with he Channel...

;RS secures Co-Op ;cottish contract

1 Scottish Road Services has on a contract with Co-Op tores in Scotland. To service the contract it as acquired 29 liveried...

iew buying terms

I Rockwood Holdings has ltered the terms of its proosed acquisition of shipping nd freight forwarding group lterfreight K (CM...

Corfield swallows Tooth

• London-based removals company Tooth Transport has been acquired by Corfield in a deal which combines the two companies'...

Double Dutch Securicor

• Securicor Express Parcels has merged its Dutch operation with two transport and express parcels companies in the Netherlands,...

Rail plan

▪ The Government's three-year plan for the railways forecasts an increase in profits at Railfreight from 22 million a year to...

Going East

• United Parcel Service (UPS) has launched a document and package delivery service to five East European cities: Moscow in the...

Crossroads site

III Volvo truck dealer Crossroads Group is building a £2 million headquarters and workshops on a 3.4ha greenfield site near...

Fuelling cards

• Following its successful trial of Fuelink cards in the East Midlands, British Fuel Company (BFL) is now promoting the use of...

Dover plan

MA .23 niillion, 4,000m 2 cargo terminal is planned for the South Jet t y Berth at Dover's Eastern Docks to attract more...

Deal complete

• Hadleigh Industries, the Ipswich automotive and engineering group, has completed its acquisition of the Lynton Group.

Hunting profits

• The economic climate is likely to have a "disadvantageous effect" on Hunter Distribution's activities during the company's...

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DTp turns tough on LRT

• The Government has set tough service targets for London Regional Transport, which has been ordered to tighten up on the...

Eastern Javelin

• The first Dennis Javelin buses to be fitted with air suspension have joined Eastern Counties in Norwich. The five-vehicle...

Western Scanias III Following service trials, West Midlands Travel has

ordered 40 Scania doubledeck buses worth 23.6 million for delivery during this summer.

CJG bus ban's back

• Welsh bus operator Clayton Jones Group has had a revocation order on its licences reinstated by the Transport Tribunal (CM...

East London tries NC-bodied PI1100

• A Northern Countiesbodied Renault PR100 has started service trials with East London Bus and Coach, a subsidiary of London...

Less licence

• Maintenance problems have led to the number of vehicles on Aintree-based Powney Coaches' PSV 0Licence being cut from 27 to 20...

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Bid dropped

• A bid for a new licence by Susan Carolyn O'Neill, of Elinesthorpe, near Earl Shilton, Leicestershire, has been withdrawn....

Appeal withdrawn

• Darnsden-based owner-driver John Berry withdrew his appeal against his conviction on tachograph offences at the last minute,...

Set aside

• The decision in the case involving P&A I laulage and one of its drivers has been set aside (CM 14-20 December 1988). It is...

Senior's service check

1 a An unsatisfactory fleet inspection, and the unathorised use of vehicles, have led to the licence of Harrogatebased Derek...

Six months to find somewhere to park

• If Shadwell Construction cannot find a suitable operating centre for its 24-tonne vehicle within six months, it will be...

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Quota hits Taro imports

• Volkswagen's attack on the one-tonne pickup market with its Taro, a badged version of the Toyota Hilux, will after all be hit...

Multi deal

• Ford and Volkswagen are investigating the feasibility of collaborating to develop a multi-purpose vehicle along the lines of...

Citroen record

• Overall sales at Citroen are expected to rise to 27.13 billion this year; setting an all-time record for the company....

Leyland Daf lists choice of bodies

• Leyland Daf vans has produced a new SVO brochure illustrating the many body styles and options available on its 200 and 400...

EPIC pumps from Lucas

• Electronically-controlled diesel pumps should be available in light commercials within the next five years. This is...

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• Transport managers are not generally known for the way

they skip about laughing and joking as they keep track of an entire fleet and a mountain of paperwork. Then there's Allan...

• Sometimes life can be an uphill struggle — as

some kids from Derby found out when Lynx drove a simulated mountain into town. As part of an activity day which raised £300...

• Makers of big trucks can have big hearts too.

Glasgow schoolboy Christopher Campbell was given a powered wheelchair when he visited ERF's stand at the Scottish Motor Show....

II If any dealers are finding business a little slow,

sell it with music. According to one Anglesey Volvo car dealer, a few bars of Beethoven acts like magic on potential customers,...

• Richard Branson has given the thumbs-up to a kerbcrawling project soon to hit the streets of Sheffield.

lveco Ford has supplied Branson's eco-organisation UK 2000 with a truck to scour the city for recycled waste. Up to 8,000...

• Regulars at the Gredington Arms public house at Llan-ypw11

near Wrexham, Clwyd, have a message for the driver of an articulated lorry which jack-knifed on the A534, demolished the wall...

• Mr Parkinson certainly has a way with words when

it comes to the Chunnel. Following his recent reference to crossing a bridge (see CM 30 November-6 December), he now promises a...

• Anyone stuck behind a line of 25 lorries on

their way into Gloucester a couple of weeks ago will be comforted to know that they were witness to the transportation of the...

• Despite being general manager of Silver Arrow Services, Barry

Ming is the biggest crawler in the firm. But loved and respected for it, because Barry's sponsored charity crawls are...

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BUSINESS MOVES

TRANS GLOBAL IRISH BASE • A Dublin, Ireland base has been set up by airfreight forwarder Trans Global on the Ballymun Estate....

RELIEF FOR DRIVERS • Bin ningham-based Relief Driver Services plans

to open three new temporary driver offices by next March in Warrington, Stoke, and Bristol Contact Relief Driver Services, 537...

CITY UNK AT YORK • City Link Transport, part of

the Securiguard Group, has opened a new branch in York — the 50th in its UK network. Contact City Link Transport Holdings,...

City Link

YORK TO LONDON • York Transport Engineering, the service arm of York Trailer, is closing its Watford branch and expanding its...

RK

DIALUNG RO-R • The telephone number for Rubery Owen-Rockwell in Llay has changed. Phone the company on (0978) 852141 or (0978)...

DEALERS

AICZO COATINGS APPOINTS THREE • Sikkens paint manufacturer Akzo Coatings has appointed three agents to bring its distributor...

GOOD DEAL • Wisbech agricultural dealer H L Hutchinson has

been appointed a dealer for Multicar. Contact Barry Shearman on (0945) 61177.

SERVICES

WARSAW GROUPAGE • P & 0 Ferrymasters' Dutch subsidiary, GTW, has been appointed as the UK groupage agents for Pekaes Transport...

REDUCED RISK • Seaboume is offering an allrisks insurance cover

for consignments worldwide. Premiums start at £3.00 for a consignment up to £1,000 per airwaybill. Contact (0628) 75171.

ONE PRICE FOR ALL • Securicor Express has introduced a

new tariff system called 'The Easy UK Tariff' which means customers now have one standard price for all service levels. There...

VIVA ESPANIA MI Sea Route Ferry, the Eastleigh-based international freight

forwarder, has launched a new groupage service to Spain. Contact Sea Route House, Tower Industrial Estate, Chickenhall Lane,...

EVENTS

FREIGHT DATE • The Eurofreight Exhibition, to be held in Brussels from 911 April 1990, will be a showplace for companies...

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW • The Institute for International Research is hosting

a two-day conference, "Liability Under Environmental Legislation," at the New Connaught Rooms, London on 27-28 February. At...

PUBLICATIONS

WINTER HAZARD MAP • BRS Western has published a map of the UK highlighting stretches of motorway and major trunk roads which...

LOAD STRAPS CODE • The Association of Webbing and Load

Restraint Equipment Manufacturers has produced a guidance leaflet for operators to encourage them to choose safe load straps....

TRAINING

TTTA TO THE FORE • Teesside Transport Training Association has won BS5750 covering all its training activities. Contact (0642)...

PETER LANE ON ME DEFENCE • A new defensive driving

course is being offered by Bristol-based Peter Lane Transport, The one-day course, run by institute of Advanced Motorists...

COMPETITION

DESIGN FOR THE DISABLED • A steel company is offering cash prizes for vehicle designs to help the disabled, in three...

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PRODUCTS

DIRTY WORK • Forward Chemicals has produced a reformulated heavyduty bactericidal hand cleaner, called Hand Over Fist. The...

PRODUCTS

MERC OIL ▪ A new HGV engine oil for Mercedes-Benz SK trucks has been launched by the oil division of Morris and Co...

ROAD NEWS

B LACKBURN BYPASS I The public inquiry into proposals for the M65 Blackburn southern bypass will be held on Tuesday 13...

AUSTRIAN PARKING

• The Austrians have built parking areas at the main border crossing points for lorries waiting to continue their journeys...

ROADWORKS

• LONDON AND THE SOUTH EAST MI London: Reduced widths on slip roads at Junction 5 (A41). MI Buckinghamshire: Various outside...

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HIGHLAND REGION SNOW CLEARING

The first civilian Foden 6x6 26-tonners to go into action have joined Highland Regionai Council as snow clearers — a job which...

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THREADING ROUND THE PROBLEM IN Re your Page 3 Lost

and Found (CM 30 November-6 December) I believe that nine times out of 10 you will find it is the nearside wheels that come...

TERRITORIAL TRAUMA • In your article headed "Chart in new

territories" (CM 7-13 December), there appears to have been a misunderstanding. You state that Chart Dis tribution Services...

VILLAGERS' REASONING II Responding to Mr Watkinson's letter (CM 7-13

December), "Roads over Railways", the villagers of Spettisbury feel the disused railway line along the village would be most...

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CONTINENTAL

DRIFT Norbert Dentressangle is one of the fastest-growing hauliers in France, and its UK business is booming too with 33,000...

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TRUST ATA PREMIUM

• Not everybody is honest — even in the haulage industry. So the need for some form of insurance which guards against financial...

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ERF was one of the first manufacturers to specify the Perkins' Eagle Tx engine, which supersedes all other Perkins engines.

Judging by the El 2-3251 we have tested, it was a wise choice. • The rights and wrongs of the Foden family feud in 1932 have...

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GREEN CLEAN EAN MACHINE

Engineers at Navistar in the USA have redesigned the familiar D-466 diesel engine to meet the new US particulate emission level...

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For road haulage the 1980s was a decade of extremes

— from devastating slump, to record-breaking boom. But what of the new decade, bringing with it the Single European Market, a...

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• EXEL LOGISTICS WOOD Andy Wood has been promoted by

Exel Logistics to the role of divisional IT director, responsible for information technology throughout the company's...

• TRANSFLEET SERVICES READING/FIDLER Transfleet Services has recruited two new members to its operations division in Coventry.

Jim Reading joins as quality assurance manager, responsible for implementing quality initiatives. Before this he worked at TDC...

• TRAFFORD VEHICLE LEASING LAMBERT Peter Lambert has been appointed

general manager of Trafford Vehicle Leasing, part of the Quicks Group. He leaves Ford Credit's Bristol office.

• ENDEAVOUR TRUCKS MANNING A new truck area manager has

been appointed at Endeavour Trucks in Portslade, E Sussex, following the recent division of the company's van and truck...

• CITY UNK TRANSPORT BRAZIER/ALDER City Link Transport has promoted

Duncan Brazier to national transport development manager. He was formerly transport manager at the company's London branch....

• PPG AUTO REFINISH KRUEGER Bill Krueger has been appointed

market manager, heading a European team for PPG Auto Refinish. The new organisation will have representatives from France,...

• NAWDC WILLGOSS Dick Willgoss, chairman of S Grundon (Services),

has been elected vice-chairman of the national executive committee of the National Association of Waste Disposal Contractors....

• KAGE ROGERS David Rogers has joined Kage of Irony'Ile,

Notts as field sales manager in Scotland and the north of England. He has worked in the automotive industry for almost 20...

• TRIO CONTAINERS HADLEY Terry Hadley, formerly Birmingham area sales

manager with Trio Containers, has been promoted to national sales manager.

• MORRIS ALTON John Alton joins Shrewsbury lubricants manufacturer Morris as chief executive of its lubricants division.

• TRISTAR LEASING CAPE WELL Fred Capewell becomes director of

Tristar Leasing's vehicle rental division. He was formerly rental operations manager at Cowie Interleasing.

• S JONES CRITCHELUSAYCE

Mat - tin Critchell is appointed transport manager at Walsallbased transport specialist S Jones. He was previously depot...

• KING TRAILERS ETTY/SMART Leicestershire-based King Trailers announces two promotions

to its sales operation. Richard Smart becomes area sales manager for the East and Midlands after three years with the company,...

• OBITUARIES BOB BLACKVVELL Bob Blackwell, commercial manager at A

S Jones, died suddenly on 17 December. He had worked for the company for 42 years and was appointed commercial manager in 1974.

IAN THORPE Ian Thorpe, 32. sales representative for Holt Lloyd,

has died in a car accident. He joined the company in 1988 covering the North East and Cumbria. He leaves a wife, Yvonne, and...

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SHOP TALK

• This month we introduce a new-look Workshop magazine with an editorial front cover. This reflects the importance we attach to...

The crunch ears ahead

• NOW that we have entered the last decade of the 20th Century. Workshop with a new look, it is appropriate that we attempt to...

Davair expands oven range

• POOLE-based Devair is expanding its range of commercial spray low-bake ovens. The company, better known in the UK market for...

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'The FSG feels that quality will not be a marketing

edge in the future — it will simply be an expected requirement' Factoring Services Group ESC chairman Arnold Parker says: /...

Two tools for clutches

• SPICER is introducing two tools specifically to improve the adjustment and set up of its 14 and 151/2 inch twin-plate...

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Spicer opens new recon facility

• A NEW all-models commercial vehicle transmissions reconditioning unit has been set up by Spicer Transmissions-Dana at its...

im workshop

• PLANS have been unveiled for a multi-million pound workshop and office complex for waste management vehicle specialist Trio...

New regs on brakes sought

• THE EUROPEAN Transport Maintenance Council is to try to get the EEC braking legislation amended to overcome compatibility...

Oil filters: 'No progress' says fleet engineer

• A modern lubricating oil has to be multi-functional — in short, required to lubricate engine parts, protect against wear and...

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Waller leads H&L in 90s

• The South Humberside-based H & L Tyres group has a new management team to lead it into the 1990s. The group's main operation...

• Transfleet Services has a new workshop services manager, Mike

Clissett. Based at the company's hq in Sutherland House, Coventry, Clissett is responsible for implementing new service...

• National accounts sales manager Roger Bateman, 44, has returned

to Motorway Tyres after 12 months' absence working for a company in the car auctions field. This follows the recent appointment...

• Nigel J Palmer, Cummins service marketing manager and Mike

English, Cummins automotive sales manager have presented James Isaac, managing director of West Midlands Travel with a...

• Bill Faragher, managing director of Injection Pump Repairs (1PR)

in Kilburn, donated £1,000 to the Marrow Environmental Fund, St George's Hospital, Tooting, courtesy of Lucas Automotive. The...

• IM Communications, the recently launched cellular communications offshoot of

the IM Group, has appointed Robert Taylor, 29, as general manager. Taylor has worked for the parent company for 10 years and,...

Mansfield congratulates Souriau distributors

• Trevor Mansfield, general manager of Souriau's Auto Division, told the annual Souriau Distributor Dinner that the distributor...

• Two weeks after five customised Ford Fiestas were ordered

by British Airways they had been turned round by the Quicks Group body and paint shop headed by Bob Goodhal and delivered....

• Entrepreneur Carl Ager, launching a new company called Home

Buy, has chosen 10 Bedford Midi personnel carrier window vans with a special seat conversion by Whitacre's of Stoke-on-Trent,...

• Wincanton Engineering apprentice Lee Batson, 20, has won a

national competition organised by the Institute of Sheet Metal Engineering for part of his college project, making a tool...

• The aftermarket association, IMPACT, is to inaugurate an annual

trophy to honour its last chairman, Graham Platts, who died last May. The trophy is open to young people (below the age of 25...

• Maggie Walker becomes secretary/personnel assistant to John Bullin, managing

director of Aquilla Plastics, supplier of self-adhesive functional and decorative materials to the automotive industry. She was...

• Gareth Chambers and Chris Reynolds have joined gasket manufacturer Payen's sales team. Neil Taylor is now customer service manager.

• We record with regret the death of Derek Hopkinson, managing director of Granning UK.

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SECOND LIFE NOT SECOND CLASS

Reconditioned clutches need not be the expensive horror story often imagined, writes Colin Sowman W hen a report reaches the...

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OPERATION STRIP DOWN

Stripping down and overhauling an Eaton ninespeed gearbox is within the capabilities of any well equipped operator's workshop,...

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CERAMICS REDUCE CLUTCH ABUSE

New clutch materials have almost taken over as OE fitment. Colin Sowman looks at the advantages W hen it comes to friction...

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Number: 1527 10/89 E-SERIES STEERING LOCK LIMITS — E-SERIES The

preceding table for steering lock limits is that arrived at for all E-Series trucks. The angles stated are those the steering...

Number: 1508 8.89 E-SERIES ENGINE IMPROVED EXHAUST ADAPTOR — CUMMINS

L10 — VERTICAL STAINLESS STEEL EXHAUST An improved exhaust adaptor is now available for the vertical, stainless steel exhaust...

Number: 58 1 0/8 9 ALL MODELS RENAULT-DODGE — DE

CARBON DAMPERS All Renault G-Range, R-Range and Midliner vehicles have been fitted with De carbon pressurised gas dampers. This...

Number: 89 171 11/89 SELF SEALING VALVES ON AIR SUZIES

— ALL VEHICLES When fitting self-sealing valves to EEC Directive 85/647 with female couplings, under no circumstances must any...

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Bosch's handy sander

Workshops have seen many advances in technology, but some items like the humble sander have hitherto remained unaltered. Now...

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3-point measures for large diameter

• Two self-centring internal micrometers to measure largerthan-average bores have been introduced by Bowers Internal Gauge....

Waterproof the workshop

• Easilay, a waterproof floor screed for workshops and garages has a compressive strength of 70N/mm 2 (twice that of comcrete)...

Circuit testers come to hand

• A new range of electrical circuit testers is now available from Longs. The digital volt meters, it says, made by SOAR, are...

G&A re-equips Murex welds

• Chassis-less refrigerated trailer manufacturer Gray & Adams, which places great reliance on the quality of welded assemblies,...

Ravaglioli lifts for CV mart

• Samefa UK, has expanded the Ravaglioli range of workshop equipment to include mobile column lifts for the commercial vehicle...

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Flatmate tackles tyres and fires

• Associated Tyre Specialists has launched Flatmate, a tyre inflater and fire extinguisher in one, The cylinder is filled with...

'Sausage' saver

• For less wastage on vehicle bodybuilding or repair tasks, Stag Polymers & Sealants is now packaging its one-part paintable...

Action-based project plans

• "Action-based, practical programmes to assist manager plan, or organise implement and control their own health and safety...

Silencer Strip cuts to length

• It's new 3M Silencer Strips, says the company. are high-tack material, easily cut to length for installation on door panels,...

Quick-change shot-blaster

• A shot-blast cabinet introduced by Compair AutoPower provides for a change of blasting media within a minute using a trap...

VIS Itronic is attraction

• V1S1systems, part of the Carter-Parrett Group, estimates potential business from its stand at Motorfair '89 at over half a...

Graffcoat can control graffiti

• For the control of graffiti, Environmental Products offers Graffcoat, a moisture-cured light stable aliphatic polyurethane...

Safety signs...

• From Focal Displays comes an updated, fully colour illustrated safety signs wall chart, which opens up to 580x78Omm wide, and...

Catalyst myths

• A Catalyst, the Earth and You is an explanatory pamphlet for the trade produced as a customer relations aid by Bainbridge...

Dish the dirt

• Biodegradable Powaclene Tfr from Forward Chemicals, for removing heavy dirt, oil and grease, can be diluted up to 200 parts...