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• COACHING is always in the news and is still a changing scene. For our Coaching Special next week Noel Millier has been to the Channel Island of Guernsey to see what has happened since coach operating techniques were introduced to a traditional bus operation. The result is relevant to the mainland in the light of the current bus industry White Paper.
• One of the most dramatic looking coaches available in Britain is the Bova Futura. Noel Millier has taken a high-floor version round our Scottish test route. He found the Dutch-built vehicle well finished, comfortable, powerful and fuel efficient. His report appears next week.
• A three-way dogfight has broken out on the run between London and Newcastle since Tyne and Wear launched its "nonstop Clipper" against Blueline and Rapide last month. Jack Semple has tested all
three, and reports on problems and prospects for the carriers and their passengers.
• George Malcolm in Financial Market will be comparing road haulage on the Continent with the British scene; and Keith Vincent in Looking at Legislation will examine road transport legislation across the Irish Sea.
• Janus is concerned with tachographs next week. "At first glance the present instrument does seem bizarre in the electronic age," he writes. "A stylus scratching a wax covering from a cardboard disc might have been a good idea when the basic instrument was invented in the Thirties. But its survival into the forthcoming era of the paperless office would be an anachronism."
"Or would it?"
Read CM next week.