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uly British Justrial tyres
ECENT PRESS release Tred to Avon Rubber Plc as being the only wholly ish totally independent tyre lufacturer. Whilst we would eve this to be true cerning pneumatic tyres, we 'Id claim that Watts is the ( wholly owned totally ?pendent British tyre lufacturer of resilient and industrial tyres.
rats industrial tyres are lufactured in Lydney and Drted to around 30 countries ie world. At the present time USA is a major market. om the figures available to ve believe that Watts have argest share of the ace ment market for
istrial resilient and solid s in the United Kingdom. ?ere are other tyres sold in narket by British companies, many of these tyres are not i..rfactured in the United idom.
atts Industrial Tyres Ltd is of the long established ete Watts Group, which has employees and a turnover of n.
e hope that Avon will inue in business in the arnatic sector for many s, as we intend to do with strial tyres.
NC. THURSTON ctor and Group General ager stria! Tyres iey, Gloucestershire
Ii cabotage
'ER to an item printed on 3 under the heading der case settled" in your on October 8. As far as I ware, the question of the Customs officials being mended did not arise, since ifficulties arose due to .ing interpretations of the ,tage Article in the
agreement between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.
I should also clarify that the practice of some hauliers is to obtain clearance for their vehicles, leave the trailer in the Republic and return home overnight with their tractor unit, returning the following morning to the Republic and continuing their journey.
D. W. GREEN International Executive Freight Transport Association Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Saving on tyre costs
I READ in the press about the small businessman who was able to repair the Lord Provost's Rolls Royce for £542, when a Rolls Royce agent had quoted £1,500.
We are a small company which could save Glasgow District Council perhaps 30 per cent on commercial vehicle tyre costs. We provide a tyre regrooving service which results in the worn tyre being reconditioned to around 50 per cent of its original tread depth. Briefly, the process involves cutting a new tread into the base rubber of the tyre with a special machine utilising a heated blade. When the job is done, the tyre tread looks like new as the original pattern is followed. The process is entirely safe and legal and can be done with the blessing of the tyre manufacturers, who indeed design their tyres to have this done. On the sidewall of tyres nowadays are moulded the words, "Regroovable".
With a fleet the size of the council's the possibilities for economy are considerable. A. G. McHARG Proprietor, A. G. McHarg and Co On-site tyre regrooving service, Glasgow G14 9AN
An appeal from Holland
ALTHOUGH I am a lawyer I am since several years very interested in the economic and historical development of major manufacturers of commercial vehicles.
Together with the technical evolution of the lorries produced by the established manufacturers, I am studying the influence of the technical and economic quality (performance, economy and reliability) upon the type of equipment which the users desire.
Moreover, I am very seriously occupied with the collecting of original metal or plastic logos (marks) and names in letters attached by the manufacturers at the front of their lorries during the past five decades.
For several years I have regularly visited dealers, but also scrap handlers and private owners.
Till now I have succeeded in finding the following marks and names in letters of manufacturers in different versions: AEC, Atlas, Albion, Bedford, Berliet, Berna, Borgward, Bussing, Commer, DAF, Dennis, Deutz, Dodge, Ebro, ERF, FBW, Fiat, FK, Foden, Ford, Ginaf, GMC, Hanomag, Henschel, Hanomag/Henschel, International, lveco, Kaelble, Krupp, Leyland, Mack, MagirusDeutz, MAN, Mercedes-Benz, Mol, Nissan Diesel, OAF, OM, Opel, Oshkosh, Pegaso, RABA, Renault, Saurer, Saviem, ScaniaVabis, Steyr, Tatra, Terberg, Titan, Unic, Verheul, Volvo, White.
At present I own 139 different marks and names in letters of 54 manufacturers of lorries.
Much to my regret I miss several famous British makes in my collection, for example: Guy, Scammell, Seddon, Atkinson, Seddon Atkinson, Crossley, Austin, Maudsley, Thornycroft, Morris, Karrier, etc.
Furthermore, as you can understand, I don't nearly have all versions of the makes I already have in my collection.
My request is if you have the possibility to help me by giving me the addresses of readers with the same hobby; I can tell you that I have several marks to exchange. J.B.M.J. VAN DORT Kolenbranderstraat 8 4813 CL Breda The Netherlands
Reprints, please
I REFER to John May's letter in -your issue of October 15. I fully endorse his suggestion of a book of reprints from past issues of Commercial Motor, particularly from the early days. I have collected the magazine since 1968 and find it most regrettable that it is impossible to buy earlier issues and also house magazines such as AEC Gazette, without paying exorbitant prices.
I. G. BUGLASS Todmorden Lancashire