Thuggery At A Firework Party

I WAS shaken when I heard the reason why Ron Boyce, dedicated chairman of the Lorry Driver of the Year Association's National Council, was absent from the annual general meeting......

Daf To The Rescue In Ethiopia

TO MENTION Ethiopia and Christmas in the same breath is almost obscene but that, felicitously, is when eight DAF 330bhp 6 x4 tractors and Nooteboom platform trailers are due in......

Tiller Shuttles Into Posterity

SHELVOKE and Drewry's famous 1927 Tiller-steered freighter is now on permanent loan to the Shuttleworth Collection at Old Warden, Bedfordshire. See photograph, below. The......

Too Close To The Edge For Safety

CLOSE to the Edge, the title of a television film made for the Department of Transport's campaign to reduce road accidents to children in the 1013 age group, has a wider......

Cheap, Easy Ways To Cut Accidents

CHANGES in vehicle design are by no means the only way of making pedestrians more clearly visible to drivers. In West Brompton, the stop lines on the road have been moved back......

Illegal Tapes Walk The Plank

MORE than 2,000 pirates were crushed beneath the wheels of a 1924 John Fowler steam engine in a builder's yard in Dublin. The pirates were not the seafaring kind but illegal......