Dedication Rewarded

The man to whom the Road Haulage Association's East Kent sub-area may well owe its continued existence received the OBE in the New Year Honours List. He is Pater Brazier, of C.......

Memory Stirred

Until I read Pat Kennett's new book, Seddon Atkinson, I had forgotten that Atkinson once dabbled in passenger vehicles. For some years up to about 1963 the company built bus and......

Speedy Sydney

According to Murray Clifford, a New Zealander on the staff of Truck and Bus Transportation of Australia, the standards demanded of British bus drivers are among the toughest in......

That's Precision

Any Lorry Driver of the Year 'who was able to halt a 142ft, 115-tonne-gross road train within 2cm of a given point behind him would unquestionably be hailed as one of the......

Tails He Lost

"As I drove back to London down M6 and M1 . . my admirat went out to the heavy lorry drivers, tail to tail, mile after we mile," wrote John Junor in the Sunday Express. • Lorry......

Country On Wheels

Fourteen tracks of country music originally written for American lorry drivers have been combined to make a cassette entitled Goodyear Truck/n' Music. As compensation for Jimmy......

A Long Trotsky

A Russian old-age pensioe is reported to have walk 6,250 miles across the So% Union from Riga to Vladi , stok. The walk took nea eight months but was pre.' able to a 17-week......

Deckers Going...

In Sydney, Australia, once a stronghold of the double-deck bus, Public Transport Commission has withdrawn all its postconventional rear-platform double-deckers and now plans to......

...to New Pastures

In Scotland an old double-decker bought for £800 is to converted into a play school for children under five in Dunferml Two social workers, Anne Scott and Margaret Skelton, are......