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RYLAND TANKERS has been in business for 20 years building two and three-axled rigid tankers for major oil companies and authorised distributors alike. Eighteen months ago it re-established itself in Redditch and has slowly begun to reassert its presence in the bulk distribution market. Bryan Jarvis visited Ryland and reports next week. His feature is part of our special bulk number. • A bulk commodity that tends to pet forgotten among all those tankers is timber. Moving "round timber" out of the forests and away to the mills is a job that calls for some specialised plant and equipment. David Wilcox reports on two timber hauliers who work in among the trees of Europe's largest plantation, Kielder Forest.
• ICI Mond of Runcorn is a major buyer and operater of bulk tankers. Jack Semple has been to Lancashire to discuss the company's transport policy.
• Earlier this year (CM July 7) we reported on the British Army Equipment Exhibition at which the new Bedford TM 6x6 attracted a lot of attention. Now that the dust of that and other exhibitions has settled, Tim Blakemore has had time to take a closer look at the new military vehicle from Luton which may find some civilian application. One of Bedford's major objectives in the development of the TM 6x6 was to make it easy to drive, without losing any off-road ability. Read how successful the Bedford engineers have been. It is in next week's CM.