Antilok brakes on US buses
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• The Fiat Antilok brake system, whicl the company has been working on for sorni years, has recently been adopted by thi Greyhound Bus Company in America.
The system, which is said to be suitable fo either hydraulic or full air systems, IA eventually be built under licence in the USA Anti-lock braking systems becomt mandatory on new commercial vehicle: from September 1 1974 in the USA Fiat is reluctant, writes Gibb Grace, to give date when the device can be specified as factory option on its own trucks, but Anti lok-equipped vehicles will be released u certain operators for evaluation in thc near future. Fiat has had 30 of its owr inter-factory trucks fitted with the systen for some time, experiencing very fey problems.
• Pay rises of between £42 and £170 NI year have been agreed for administrative clerical and supervisory grades of employee: of the National Bus Companies. A meeting last week of the National Joint Council foi Non-Manual Staffs agreed that the increaseE should take effect from the first full week of August.