be answered. The industry will begin to learn for real just how many buses of what size will be needed or justified for...

• Bedford's decision to pull out of volume truck and bus production in the UK will not provide a quick solution to the...

• British hauliers have drawn the short straw in next year's allocation of EEC multilateral permits, and will find increasingly...

• Herve Guillaume, Renault Truck Industries' new chairman, is insistent that the Dunstable company's French parent is not about...

• Iveco has won what could well turn out to be one of the biggest single contracts — in terms of volume — struck so far between...

• After their initial enthusiasm for the proposed rises in two-axle rigid gross weight, and the adoption of a 10.5tonne drive...

• The Government has still to make up its mind about whether anti-spray devices should be specifically checked as part of the...

• The London Residuary Body's decision to introduce a simple London lorry permit renewal procedure has provoked an angry...

• Police from three forces organised a combined traffic check called Operation Jaguar last week which resulted in the...

I Light vehicle operators looking for a bargain were snapping-up virtually brand new Volkswagen LT451) vans from TNT this week,...

• Renault Truck Industries has developed a high-roof crew cab version of its G16 Commando 4x 2 16-tonner rigid specifically for...

will go on sale in January 1.987. sitioned to leave the top of the chassis clear for bodybuilders to fit longer bodies. The...

• Eaton and MAN have agreed to share manufacturing of the range of single-reduction drive axles which the two companies have...

• Lawrence David of Peterborough has become the second body builder to receive a quality assurance certificate from the British...

• Mitsubishi has become the first Japanese manufacturer to enter the British 15 tonne light truck sector with the Launch of its...

• Volvo has developed a new, 16 litre truck engine that will take it above 298kW (400hp) for the first time. The engine, an...

• Less than a week after it finally acquired Birds Eye Walls' distribution business (CM, Oct. 18), the National Freight...

Bristol Street Motors Group's Birmingham-based commercial vehicle contract hire and leasing division — Trucklease — is spending...

• Sales by British motor body builders have increased by 56.7% in the past three years to 2550 million, according to TCC's...

• Swedish truck and bus builder Scania increased its worldwide sales by 12% during the first eight months of the year to...

• Blackburn-based WH Bowker has won a new contract to supply transport services for BASF (UK), the British subsidiary of the...

• Office supplies company Acco Europe has reorganised its distribution system, based on a contract hire package from Ryder...

• Mercedes-Benz (UK) — Daimler-Benz's British commercial vehicle and car subsidiary — last year enjoyed a 156% increase in its...

• Gateway Foodrnarkets has opted to dispose of its vehicle fleet in the southwest of England, and has signed up Heronfreight to...

liberalise the EEC haulage market, where they have a market share of around 27% although the Netherlands accounts for only 5%...

able to manufacture medium weight commercial vehicles no noisier than the average family car with noise emmissions of less than...

Dusseldorf s electric buses are to be replaced by vehicles with an integrated battery unit built into them. The new sodium...

• Thefts from trucks in West Germany increased by 17.8% in 1985. Loads particularly hit were leatherwear and other clothing,...

Hamburg have been closed to 40-tonne trucks; 38 of these bridges may in fact be used only by vehicles with an overall weight of...

• Czech police are using mobile weighbridges at border crossings, paying special attention to foreign trucks. There is no...

• Repairs lasting till November 15 at the Cieszn border crossing between Poland and Czechoslovakia will considerably slow down...

a contract to supply Turkey's leading manufacturer of medium weight trucks with 2,000 B series units a year. Both the...

foreign trade organisation Avtoexport have concluded a major contract for the sale to the USSR of Czechoslovakian Tatra...

the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, an economic organisation for Eastern Bloc countries and also including Cuba,...

market in South Africa with the launch of the Courier, a range of Japanesesourced one-tonne pickups. Tom Williamson, deputy md...

• While the Chinese road accident rate is high, according to a German observer, they are more advanced in some of their road...

advanced technology at Barajas in Spain to build truck cabs. L'Officiel des Transporteurs, September.

• Despite the efforts of the Swiss authorities to improve road safety by introducing a 120km/h speed limit on motoroways and an...

motorways has been raised to 100 km/h as long as the vehicles meet certain specifications such as speed limiters. LVfficiel...

increasingly popular for heavy goods vehicles. The number of trucks using the tunnel tripled from around 234 per day in 1981 to...

passed through Cherbourg in 1985, a 6.3% increase on the previous year. Roads to Paris are being upgraded and and will achieve...

from the record 26.99 billion it is spending in 1986 to 25.59 billion.

• After Alferton magistrates were told of an alarmingly high number of unexplained wheel losses, Transport and Warehousing...

an absolute discharge to Morris Brothers (Bircotes), and one of its drivers after the company admitted using a vehicle in a...

• Drivers hours and record offences cost Ace Link Limited and a director of the company a total of £445 in fines and costs when...

• A series of convictions that led to Worcester hauliers Timothy and Robin Harthill, trading as Harthill Bros, being ordered to...

• The Isle of Man Fatstock Marketing Association has been fined £200 for operating a vehicle without an 0-licence. Lancaster...

• The licence of Middlesbrough haulier A V Dawson, for eight vehicles and 30 trailers, has been renewed by North Eastern...

• Whitchurch haulier L Forrester (Transport) has been wanted authority to use an additional operating centre despite protests...

II The Government has refused to intervene in the bus war that has broken out in Glasgow ahead of deregulation. The city's...

• The deregulation of London's bus services continues with the allocation this week of ten bus routes by London Regional...

• Wadham Stringer has fitted its new Wessex midisized bus body to the Dodge 50-Series chassis for the first time. This coach...

• Marley Vehicle Leasing (NIVL) has appointed Jim Brennan, 33, as national sales manager. Brennan, who spent seven years with...

Lowfield's Evans • Lowfield Distribution, part of the Imperial Foods division of the Hanson Trust, has appointed Alan Evans as...

• Lothian Region Transport's managing director designate, Charles Evans, has taken up the post of president of the Bus and...

Established six years ago by BRS Western as the major distributor within the region for Perkins diesel engines, Power Western,...

• Whittle International Movers of Preston, Lanes, has made P E Davis a director, to head up its warehouse and fleet operation...

• The British Overseas Trade Board has published a booklet designed to help small firms who want to export their goods or...

• The Bus and Coach Council's training organisation, Bus and Coach Training, has set up a business advisory service that can...

• The British Standard relating to spray suppression (BS AU200) has recently had two important amendments. The first concerns...

• The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) has published a list of the current petrol engined vans and cars that...

• Telephones incorrectly installed in trucks are causing problems that are potentially dangerous. This warning comes from...

• Ratcliff Tail Lifts has appointed its 50th agent, Silver Arrow Services of Swindon. Silver Arrow provides a 24hour emergency...

Cheaper Tadchurch • Tadchurch has slashed the price of its rubber suspension when fitted as original equipment by chassis...

• Dover Harbour Board is to build a new berth at Eastern Docks. It will be able to accommodate both conventional cross-Channel...

New Dunlop retread • SP Tyres UK (formerly Dunlop) has introduced a new retread tyre for vans. It is in the Dunlop SP LT2...

Coach costs • The Bus and Coach Council has published a 25-page booklet, Costing your Coach for Profit. Explains the booklet:...

Route planning • Freight Software Systems has a new route planning computer system called Micropath. It can plot the fastest...

London link road I 'Ile route for the proposed link road across North East London has been fixed. The 61(rn (3.8 miles) road...

is There is now just one more short but important section of the M25 to open. This is the stretch from the MI Eastwards to the...

• The commercial vehicle classes in this year's International Coachwork Competition, run by the Institute of British Carriage...

• The British Motor Show, held every two years at Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre, remains the biggest shop window for...

New vehicles inevitably hogged the headlines but Tim Blakemore also found plenty of intriguing technical innovations behind the...

Higher power, higher roof, higher standards — the new Renault R340 Turboliner is a worthy successor to the R310 as flagship of...

The new £20 million Dartford International Ferry Terminal is marvellously positioned, within metres of the M25 and less than...

• I refer to an article on page 11 of the September 20 issue, regarding the Leyland Freighter Fire Appliance. To put the...

safety and speed limits then there might be logic in the No Need To Speed campaign. No-one lying on an operating table and...

• With the proposed deregulation of buses is it not time that bus lanes are also deregulated? I have said from the beginning...

View (October 4) missed the point that the Corporation of London's semistate coach is so delicate and valuable an item that a...

• [ was interested to read the article in your publication about News Editor Brian Weatherley's HGV course and subsequent...

He said the engine "lacked the torque of its [DI contemporaries". Not so. . leastways not according to the evidence of...

the radio extolling the virtues of the "Motor Show" at the NEC and I am not only mad but appalled that he did not once mention...

• I would like to contact readers regarding information and photographs of the vehicles made by the firm of Rotinoff Motor Ltd...

of weeks back you may have witnessed a convoy of Routernaster double-deck buses loaded up with various celebrities making their...

SPECIAL OFFER SPECIAL OFFER SPECIAL OFFER SPECIAL OFFER • Whatever potential changes in transport regulations are discussed,...

I It is depressingly familiar to read of perators being called to a Licensing uthority's inquiry, and their operating zences...

introduced a number of new cleaners at the Motor Show, including the 01V small hot water/steam cleaner designed for garage...

problems last winter should have a word in the ear of whoever buys the diesel. Workshop attended a presentation showing how a...

has been a customer of Morris Oils of Shrewsbury for 15 years now, and if it gets any problems with its Ford and Volvo...

has announced the acquisition by Tecalemit Garage Equipment Co Ltd of the garage equipment division of Laycock Engineering Ltd,...

offering price reductions on 19 pairs of fast-moving heavy duty filters during October and November. The lines covered fall...

expanding and upgrading its UK battery distributor network. The 42-strong Leda-Plus range was supplemented in May by the...

Kite Mark for its Clear Pass system. The firm is the market leader for rain flaps in the UK; around 75,000 trailers (and...

exhibitors have reserved stands at Autopartac '87 at London's Olympia, February 15-17, together with over 120 exhibitors from...

of 6 Hedel Road, Canton. Cardiff, to its distribution network. Autopride will stock all four refinish systems — Standox, KII....

West German subsidiary Inmont, previously known to the paints market as Bonaval. "Because vehicles are sold on an international...

(Shrewsbury), which has been making lubricants and associated products for over a century, more latterly from its Castle Gate,...

chart for treating electric shock victims. It is encapsulated in clear, semi-rigid plastic, and measures 130mm by 90rnm (5in by...

is contained in The Facts about Fume by N. Jenkins (L5.10; Welding Institute), which is a second edition. It gives guidance on...

tester, commonly known as the "Test Them All", is designed for axle loads up to 13 tonnes. To enable accurate readings to be...

guide that opens out into a large double-sided poster and includes specifications of tools such as Super Range benches, pliers...

importers, dealers and leasing companies to offer it as a promotional addition at just over 10 pence a week. Subscribers are...

Model DT-2235 is a direct contact type. It is supplied with various adaptors designed to allow the shaft to pick up friction...

DEFEATING RUST • LPSI was one of the first products formulated by LPS Research Laboratories when the firm was founded in...

• Two additives have been launched by ICI Autocolor for use with its two-pack paints t( help refmishers to operate during the...

system, the Vacurnig, extracts 98% of the welding fumes through the nozzle of the MIG welding gun. Thegun works in conjunction...

• For TIG welding, also capable of manual metal arc welding, the new Touch TIG DC 130 welding rectifier from Arcos Lincoln is...

the UK compounds market in 1983, it has made a considerable investment in its product development laboratory at Ay

budget-priced" grease gun with side-lever action to its range of hand tools for the application of bearing grease to NLGI Grade...

comes a disposable wipe, 799 twin-ply, with the necessary lint-free characteristics needed for surface preparation. It is a...

Brochures can be bewildering to the extent that an operator may spend too much on took that are under-used, so concentrate on...

it says on the service schedule they wouldn't have half the problems they do." So said one of the fitters at Mercedes...

Britool's top-quality Super Range, which already includes screwdrivers, pliers, torque drivers and tool chests, has been...

• The Automotive Trades Group of 3M has extended its range of sealers for the body repairer to include new solutions to the...

The Vehicle Builders and Repairers Association show was used by many firms as a launch pad for new products • Big, bold and...

training courses at its company training centres in Aston, Manchester, Tyneside and Glasgow. Murex aims to provide training...

asbestos dust, Kew Industry has introduced a washer designed to clean parts such as brake assemblies and clutches without...

the commercial vehicle market with its Suburban range of propane fired warm air heaters. Most models require a 12v de supply...

PACIFY NOZZLES • The sereenwashers fitted to light and car-derived vans are often not as efficient as they could be: in...

British company, says its new Hotshot pressure washer is red hot in performance but still blue in colour and is offered in all...

its range of replacement headlamps. There is increased coverage for commercial vehicles, both for heavier trucks like the Ford...

base paint that it says dries and can have masking tape applied in just four minutes instead of waiting the more usual 45...

to British Standard 3900 water fog test and ASTM B117-1964 salt fog test with no corrosion or loss of adhesion after 1,000...

adhesion between existing paintwork in good condition and subsequent coats of Paint. ft has been brought out by the commercial...

as one metric tonne of clay and that's to clean up liquid spillages, making workshops safer from sump oil and other fluid...

— the Chargemaster range — are available in forms that make them suitable for all types of lead acid and nickel cadmium...

material having remarkable physical and chemical properties has made a manufacturing breakthrough into the motor industry,...

Washer, its lightweight coldwater pressure model. It now has a seven-metre hose with push on rather than screw on attachment,...

Drester and much used in Sweden removes dery or petrol at eight litres a minute and is now being marketed in Britain by...

Automig 185X, is a combined MIG, resistance and shrink machine, specially developed to weld thin plate and eliminate...

has opened up a wider market for waste oil heaters with its Oi[miser range starting at £230 for a 50,000 Btu per hour from...

SPECIALIST WELDER In A survey of firms specialising in the reclamation of diesel engines indicates that cracked and damaged...

ensuring trouble-free starting on damp winter mornings, can also be used to lubricate and protect locks, hinges, cables and...

a texturing base for two-packs to its range of Plastpak products designed to solve the problems involved in painting plastics....

model in West Germany — that's the claim of Hofmann Balancing Techniques, 48 Sutton Park Avenue, Reading RG6 1 AZ, for its GE...

in a different way with the SEFAC mobile column lift marketed by Colindale Equipment, of Unit 1, Lowther Road, Queensbury,...

in the United Kingdom and West Germany. Now an extended range of 26 is to be sold worldwide. They are said to give 95(.4...

Ltd) has become distribution and servicing agent for the full range of Butec/Dudley automotive electrical products. All PSV and...

Hunting Lubricants & Specialised Products in taking on the likes of Castrol and Duckhams with its Tyne Tees and Yorkshire...

full colour catalogue technical data on over 3,000 products from the Neill Group, divided into 12 chapters each with a...

• This advert spotted on the Daily Mail motoring page seems to come from the heart — and the advertiser surely has a point. It...

Clee unsuccessfully tried a variety of cleaning solutions on the firm's curtainsiders, which get grubby on Continental runs....