CE ext month Leeds truck racer Steve Fell will be making
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an attempt on the land-speed record for a truck at Elvington Airfield near York.
The attempt on 2-3 October will include standing and flying starts over distances of 500m, 1,000m, a quarter mile and the full mile, which Steve reckons has not been attempted before.
And what of the machine itself?Steve built it himself from a scrapped ERF C Series tractor unit to which has been added a Rolls Royce 265 engine, an Eaton Fuller nine-speed gearbox fitted with an extra overdrive gear, low-profile tyres, water cooled brakes and fuel cooling.
The weekend will include a range of other attractions, such as a custom truck show, Saturday night disco, hot air balloon rides and merchandise stalls. How can you afford to miss it? Well, you can't can you?
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2 ar transporter Silcock Express has been awarded the highest performance rating by Jaguar in its Carrier Quality Rating SchemeCQRS.
The scheme was developed by Ford, which snapped up Jaguar in 1989, to encourage defect prevention in the transport of cars. Losing a transporter load of the latest models, for example, will lose you a whole stack of brownie points.
Silcock's Coventry distribution centre received an "excellent" rating for its work in distributing 55% of Jaguar vehicles this year. Manager Susan Emms puts the staff's success down to the "care and pride in their work". aalking of strange vehicles I am indebted to the Northern Archaeology Group for this picture of what appears to be Fred Flintstone's original runabout.
The blunt design is based on a Beaverette armoured car c1940 but this snap was taken about 1959 when the vehicle had been cut down for use in retrieving glider winch cables by the Air Training Corps gliding schools. The setting is the RAF station at Usworth, Co Durham inside the geodesic hangar—now the centrepiece of the Nissan factory which has taken over the site.
0 n a recent article London newspaper columnist Peter McKay claimed his entertaining diversion while motorway driving is spotting lorries belonging to Eddie Stobart. Why? He didn't say.
However, a flood of letters from readers similarly obsessed with the red, green, white and yellow liveried vehicles followed. "I do not consider a journey a journey unless I have spotted an Eddie," wrote a woman from Lincolnshire. Maybe this is why our roads are so congested—thousands of people Eddie spotting.
giremen had to rescue a lorry driver in Bracknell, Berks who was overcome by vinegar fumes from a load of small onions he was carrying. Was it a case of a sting in the taillift or had the doors been left ajar? Just as well he wasn't in a tearing hurry.