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22nd November 1986, Page 24
22nd November 1986
Page 24
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• Sweden Asbestos Ban Trucks And Buses With Asbestos Brake

and clutch linings will no longer be available for sale in Sweden after 1989. The same ban will be introduced in 1988 for cars and road construction vehicles sold in Sweden.......

• Germany Truck - Tech The Truck Of The Nineties Is Likely

to be 'computer-controlled' if West German research in this field is anything to go by. Both German vehicle manufacturers and electronics companies such as Siemens and the Dutch......

• Netherlands Video Compared With Many Of The Video Text

systems used by transport operators in the Netherlands, the Transportplan system is reputed to be user-friendly. It is very easy to access information on freight movements......

• Belgium Hard - Line The Eec Commission Has Ruled That The

Belgian system of on-the-spot fines for foreign drivers who infringe Belgian traffic laws is not anti-European and has thus ignored the protests raised by several European MPs......

• Eec Freight Growth The Total Tonnage Handled This Year

by freight transport firms in the EEC countries excluding Spain and Portugal is expected to be around 478.8 million tonnes, a 5.2% increase on last year's figures. The most......

• Czechoslovakia Trolley

Last year the Czechs started a big trolleybus production scheme, which will supply 30 major towns with trolleybus systems. In order to implement this project, improvements were......

• Hungary Oil Deal The Petroleum Company Of Komarom In...

motor oil with the consent of its British partner Castro!, which is supplying small quantities of additive. Hung - aroPress No 19......

Mi Hungary Ignition

The Municipal Precision Mechanical Company of Budapest has started regular production of a novel type of electronic ignition for Barkas vans, which have twostroke,......

• Saudi Arabia Neoplans A Total Of 1(x) Combined Units

of the Kymax road speed governors and alarm and shutdown units have been fitted in Saudi Arabian bus company Neoplans as part of a contract with Kysor Europe Marketing, of......

• Usa Truck Sale America's Sun Company Plans To Sell

three of its big trucking subsidiaries through a public stock offering. St Johnsbury Trucking, Jones Truck Lines and Milne Truck Lines — their revenues in 1985 amounted to $483......

• Ussr Super Truck Production Has Started In The Soviet

republic of Byelorussia of the new MAZ64-22 high-capacity truck. It is capable of carrying 35 tons of freight 1,000 km, without refuelling, at an average speed of 100 km/h. The......

• Japan Rubber Buy Sumitomo Rubber Industries Of Kobe,...

is to acquire the majority interest in the Dunlop Tire Corporation of Buffalo, USA. Gregory Wand, director of sales and marketing for SP Tyres UK (Sumitomo's UK subsidiary)......