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I As the end of the year approaches, le hear that all 650 BedfordNauxhall eaters in the UK will be provided with next-day emergency parts service 7om January. General Motors Service 'arts Operation UK is bringing in a 6pm rder deadline applicable even in Northm Ireland — a first for the automotive idustry, the company believes.
GMSPO-UK has awarded a three-year ontract for the new service to National :arriers Contract Services, a National 'reight Company subsidiary. The conact provides provides a new consignment trackig which traces parts and deveries on each leg of the journey. Some 80 artics with specially designed ouble-deck trailers will be employed in eliveries; the annual business is valued t £350 million.
I Another look at the immediate future: dkkens Paints manufacturing company duo had has launched a customised reair system called Programmed System `echnique for individual bodyshops. It is personalised graphic workshop display howing the Sikkens system in use in fly particular bodyshop.
By studying the workforce, layout, quipment, type of repairs and throughut of an individual workshop, Akzo's eps develop the most profitable system ar that shop.
I The Garage Equipment Association urrently holds the secretariat of the ktropean GEA and held a product Habil:y seminar during Automechanika, which as addressed by legal adviser Adrian Vatts.
This should please Society of Motor 4anufacturers and Traders president 4/non Foster, who took up his appointlent in July, believes in fostering links Ath Continental industries, and as one his first engagements attended a "Get a know us lunch" with the GEA, being lelcomed by president David Thomson. Watts is now with Leyland Daf — one I our closest links with Continental inustry . . .