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WHEN Leyland Bus closed the Charles Roe bus plant in Leeds down last September it signalled the end of a 70-year-long era.
But that was only another beginning for some of the workforce. Thanks to a remarkable worker/management arrangement, a new company, Optare, is making things happen again at the Cross Gates Carriage Works, Leeds_ Bryan Jarvis reports next week.
• Coach safety is a topical subject at the moment; coach manufacturers and trade bodies are currently replying to a Department of Transport "safety package" that is set to become law sooner rather than later. The subject is reviewed in next week's CM, with emphasis on the major point roll-over protection. • This year's Local Authority, Plant and Vehicle show, to be held at the Cranfield Space Centre, promises to be bigger and hi. than before with over 70 exhibitors.
All will be vying for the attention of authority officials, fleet engineers and plant managers from the public and private secto Bryan Jarvis will be reporting next week .