• Sandy Glennie, marketing manager director of bus builder Plaxton,
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has been recruited as managing director of a sales operation set up by the newly-merged Volvo and Leyland Bus. He will keep a non-executive directorship on the board of Plaxton. Volvo and Plaxton have signed an agreement to co-operate on research and development.
• BRS will take number one spot in the trailer rental and contract hire market by 1992 with 8,500 trailers, claims former TIP man Colin Barr, who heads the new BRS Trailer Rental division, says the company will be spending 215 million on new trailers over the next three years.
• As Commercial Motor went to press, union officials representing BRS workers, who two weeks ago voted to continue industrial action, were about to meet with the management in an attempt to resolve the dispute over the company's proposed regional pay awards.
• The Attorney General has declined to intervene in the long-running London lorry ban controversy, despite recent appeals from the Freight Transport Association.
• Winner of the Commercial Motor/3M Portuguese Grand Prix competition is Lyle Noble, operations director at Hazlewood Distribution of Guildford.
Noble, 46, who has been with the contract food distribution firm for 18
months, is a motor sport fan. He will fly out to the Estoril circuilt in VIP style where he will meet the Arrows team drivers and visit the pits during the race on 25 September. The correct answers were: A,B,C,A,B,C.
• The Road Haulage Association has moved to a new address at Roadway House, 35 Monument Hill, Weybridge, Surrey, KIM 8RN, phone (0932) 841515.