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battery electrics • The Ministry of Technology has agreed to back the development of a zinc-air battery designed to offer the performance of a conventional lead-acid battery but......
: The First Two • Ldoy Dates
• Two Lorry Driver of the Year competition • centres have arranged their 1969 venues and dates. • The new South Wales event will take • place at RAF Station Sr Athan, Barry, Gla......
National Road Safety Council Disbanded
• The Minister of Transport has decided to discontinue the National Road Safety Advisory Council, set up in 1964 to review the road accident situation and methods of accident......
Moving To New Premises
At Billingham • Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, Northern LA, opening the new 14-acre transport and storage depot of R. Durham and Sons Ltd. at Billingham on Wednesday, urged a policy of......
Aec Paris Show Award
• AEC was awarded the Automobile Club de France cup for driving-cab design at the Paris International Motor Show. The prizewinning Ergomatic cab was featured on an AEC Monarch......
No Fiat/citroen Merger
by Tony Wilding • Disappointment and discouragement are reported to be the main reaction among officials of the EEC in Brussels at the stop put on a possible Fiat-Citroen merger......
Boc Raises B And H Offer
All eight members of the board of Bain and Hodge Ltd.. the 700-vehicle hauliers, unanimously agreed this week to recommend acceptance by share holders of an increased offer from......
Trouble At T'mill?
• Eight hundred lorry drivers and mates in Bradford are threatening an unofficial pay strike from November 1. They are demanding rises similar to those granted in Liverpool and......
Conference On Manpower
• Sir Norman Kipping, vice-chairman of the Fulton Committee. Dr. C. G. Williams, of Ricardo and Co., and Mr. H. H. Gott. managing director, Associated Nuclear Services, will be......
Rootes Out Of The Red
• Rootes Motors Ltd.. has announced its preliminary results for the year ended July 31. Operating profit before taxation etc., is £2.7m as against a loss of £9.6m for the same......