Shop talk • The Vehicle Builders and Repairers Ass
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Shop talk • The Vehicle Builders and Repairers Association will host its annual conference at the Peebles Hydro in Scotland on 25-27 June. Contact (0532) 538333.
US Distributor • Adams Ricardo of Yate near Bristol is the UK distributor for the US-made Gardner Denver 1.4 bar screw compressor.
Elite trio • AAH Environmental Services has taken delivery of three Dennis Elite 6x4 chassis with Phoenix XM17 waste collection bodies for contract work in east Herts and Crawley, Sussex.
Food fleet • Sealane has added eight Montracon 13.6m ti-axle tilt and curtainsider to its fleet of 300-plus trailers. They will be used on just-in-time deliveries for the food and drinks industry.
ELC Scania • Scania has signed a licensing agreement with Blackburn bodybuilder East Lancashire Coachbuilders to produce its N113CRL-based MaxCi low-floor bus.
Hoyers quartet • Hoyers (UK) is adding four single-wded 17,000-litre LAG tanker trailers to its Esso lubrication-oil distribution fleet The SAF air suspended axles are steered via the Hosta hydraulic system.
SAF axles • Wincanton's latest batch of double-decked trailers from Don Bur (CM 25 Feb-3 Mar) have SAF air-sprung running gear and Parcelforce's Tidd-built twin-decker (CM 28 Jan-3 Feb) uses SAF axles on Weweller air suspension; not RO-R components as stated previously.
Courtauld deckers II Four new York 13.71m curtain-sided trailers with fixed secondary decking are being used by Transfleet Services to distribute Courtaulds products