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The lntertruck award, which leads the field with entries at this early stage, will go to the person submitting the best thesis on articulated fleet maintenance. This is a subject with which operators are particularly concerned. They are ceaselessly trying to cut downtime without adversely affecting mechanical standards.
With the eight-hour driving day next year, those responsible for distribution patterns will have to alter routes and the location of depots. National Carriers is co-sponsoring an award which will be made to the entrant who produces the most practical approach and solutions to pending problems.
We can't hide from the world's energy problems nor the
environmentalists. RollsRoyce Motors is in the forefront of engine development, and these factors very much influence its thinking. The company and ourselves both feel that somewhere in the industry there are people with design and development ideas — they only need to be encouraged.
That is why Rolls-Royce is co-sponsoring the award for "Engine Development in the Eighties".
Renault Trucks & Buses UK Ltd is looking well ahead to our hundredth birthday. It sees that as a time when vehicles will have made significant advances in style, power and configuration.
Aerodynamics and drag will grow in importance even beyond today's priorities. Weights will increase, or will they? Materials will be lighter. Plastic engine blocks, encapsu lated in as yet little known materials, will all be part of the basic vehicle. Brought together they could make an exciting concept for the RTB Award.
The Eighties and beyond will see developments in transport organisation over the Channel. Trade with our European partners must increase if Europe is to emerge from recession and remain a force in the world.
Transport people will have a big part to play, but how should our forces be marshalled, trained and deployed? P&O European Transport Services are co-sponsoring an award tc help us discover how the in dustry sees the development.
In addition to the £100C award in each class, there wil be opportunities for the winners to visit research and develop. ment laboratories, traffic ter. minals, and maintenance or ganisations in the UK and 0mainland Europe.
All entries will be acknow• !edged.