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WE'VE a pot-pourri of articles in our Christmas number — some of immediate importance and others looking at the transport scene.
• Bill Brock has carried out a back-toback drawbar test. The models selected are those of a West country operator, both 16-tonners, performing in an unusual trunking operation.
• Graham Montgomerie's last Drawing Board feature for '82 is on tachographs. What will drivers call a system which verbally suggests that they should change gear? Eurocruise is developing such a device which is intended to improve mid-range fuel economy.
• In Financial Market we look at the dangerously stagnant second-hand market. Disposing of used cvs is so difficult that companies are building up graveyards of still roadworthy vehicles.
• Looking at Legislation ponders on the lack of progress in EEC transport policies, and in particular the failure of the Council of Ministers to push things ahead. Why are things so slow?
• Now for nostalgia. Our Christmas road test this year comes from the psv scene. Noel Millier goes charabancing, goggle-eyed, in a 1926 Thorneycroft.
• "The good old days ..." Were they? Leslie Oldridge has researched the restrictions placed on hauliers around the turn of the century. We also have features on transport and the fields of showgrounds, opera and carpet exports! It's a varied bag in CM next week.