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25th October 1986
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• Tomorrow, the questions on bus deregulation will start to

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

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No quick fix at Bedford as losses continue

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

Permits Iritain loses out

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

'No pull-our, says Guillaume

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

Daily on a slow boat to China

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

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RHA and FTA holding fire on 32-tonne rigids

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

No annual anti-spray test planned says minister

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

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London permit blast from LSPU chairman Williams

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

Jaguar bites 183

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

Surplus TNT LT45s sold

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

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A new municipa Dodge

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

Production versions of the 101kW, high-roof crew cab G16 Commando

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 maketh MAN

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

Lawrence David meets the British standard

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

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Canter at the post

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

It's 16 litres, 300kW, and it's a Volvo

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

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NFC buys Alpine

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

Trucklease invests £50k

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

Bodybuilders boost sales by 56%

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

Scania grows with European demand

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

Bowker carries for BASF

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

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Acco puts drawbars on its distribution

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

A giant leap for M-B (UK)

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

Heronfreights Gateway to the south

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

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Dutch success • Dutch truck operators support the plans to

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

Dutch hush • By 1989 Daf Trucks plans to be

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

German electric • After a successtul trial lasting 12 years,

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

German thefts

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

German bridges • Two hundred and fifty of the 2,128 road bridges in

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 bridges

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

Czech go - slow

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

Turkey torque • Cummins' engine plant at Darlington has won

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

Russian purchase • The Czechoslovak association Motokov and the Soviet

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

Russian DERV • Research done by the Solet Union and

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

S African trucks • Ford has entered the bakkie truck

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

Chinese know - how

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

Spanish robots • Pegaso has opened a new factory featuring

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

Swiss accidents

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

French limits • The French speed limit for coaches on

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

Frejus traffic • The Frejus alpine road tunnel is becoming

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

French cargo • More than two million tonnes of cargo

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

US cutbacks III General Motors is cutting spending next year

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

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Absolute discharge after wheel loss

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

• In another case involving loose wheels. Castleford magistrates granted

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

Ace Link fined on records

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

Harthill licence reduced

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

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Isle of Man FMA had no 0-licence

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

Dawson renewed after cut

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

Forrester gets centre

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

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Dereg dust up

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

LRT allocates 10 bus routes

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

IN BRIEF

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

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Manpower movements at Marley

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

Northern job for

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

Lothian man heads BCC

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

• BRS Western has announced the appointment of Mike Newbury as general manager of its Power Western operation.

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

IN BRIEF

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

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BUSINESS Export help

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

BUSINESS Bus and Coach Training

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

LEGISLATION Spray Amendments

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

MAINTENANCE Lead List

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

SAFETY Telephone traumas

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

DEALERS Ratcliff agent

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

PRICES

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

FERRIES A berth at Dover

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

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TYRES

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

PUBLICATIONS

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

COMPUTERS

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

ROAD NEWS

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...

ROAD WORKS

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...

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HEAV EN LY BODIES

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

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HAVING THE LAST WORDS

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

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ENGINEERING ELEGANC

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

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TURBOLINER BREEZES IN

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

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WHERE THE BOAT COMES IN

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

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NO TROUBLE

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

SAFETY SPEED III It there was any correlation between road

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

SCRAP IANES

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

MAN'S TNE MAN • The Hawk's normally keen Bird's Eye

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

ANYTHING THEY CAN DO • • .

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

P1EVER MINCI ME TORQUE • Andrew English's road test of the Maestro van had us at Perkins a little puzzled.

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

FORGOTTEN CV • [ have just heard the President of the SMM&T on

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...

COME IN, ROTINOFF

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

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II If you were in London's West End a couple

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

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WHY YOU NEED A CPC

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

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ISHOP TALK

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

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NEW CLEANERS AT MOTOR SHOW • KEW Industry of Penrith.

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

CURE FOR WAXING • Engineers servicing fleets which had waxing

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

TECHNICAL BACKUP Ralph's Coaches, which terries passengers for Heathrow airport,

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

SIEBE GROWS • Siebe, the fast-growing group of engineering companies,

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

PAIRS PROMOTION • Crosland Filters is running a "pairs promotion"

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

DLTA UPGRADE • Deta, the West German battery manufacturer, is

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

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MONSANTO AWARD • Monsanto has been awarded the British Standards

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

NEW NAMES AT AUTOPARTAC '87 • More than 20 new

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

BERGER IN WALES IS Berger Industrial Coatings has added Autopride

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

ICI BUYS INMONT I ICI has acquired from BASF its

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

UPGRADED DIESEL • The Oil Division of Morris & Co

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

SHOCK TREATMENT • Focal Displays has restyled its pocket guide

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

FACTS ABOUT FUME • A great deal of new information

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

'TEST THEM ALL' • Claydrum Engineering's HH 4000 K2 brake

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

BRITOOL GUIDE Britool has now produced a pocket sized product

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

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KEY TO RECOVERY • A key recovery service enables manufacturers,

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

DIGITAL TACHOMETERS • Two types of digital read out, hand-held tachometers have been introduced to the market by Foundrometers.

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

WORKSHOP PROFILE

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

WINTER PAINTING

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

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FUMES EXTRACTOR • Interlas claims that its MIG fume extraction

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

TUG WELDING RECTIFIER

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

3M COMPOUND GLOSS IN SINGLE STEP • Since 3M entered

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

SIDE-LEVER GREASE GUN FROM LUMATIC • Lumatic has added "a

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

LINT-FREE WIPE WITH WET STRETCH • From Industrial Cleaning Papers

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

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PRICING OUT A WORKSHOP

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

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• You can tell operators that if they did everything

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

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WRENCHES

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

BODY SEALERS

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

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MANCHESTER BODYSHOP

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

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MUREX TRAINING COURSES • Murex Welding Products is running welding

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

WASHER DEALS WITH ASBESTOS DUST • To minimise dangers from

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

HOTBOX ENTERS CV MARKET • I lotbox Heaters has entered

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

• WORKSFIOP TEST

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

HOTSHOT THROUGHPUT IS THE BIG POINT • Debiquip, a wholly

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

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BEAMING IN • Partco has added 43 new models to

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

QUICKER DRYING IN H. Marcel Guest has brought out a

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

WAX UNDERSEAL • Supra's Black Wax underseai has been tested

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

ADMISION PROMOTER Synthetic Adhesion Promoter 200-23 is aimed to improve

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

PIGS BEAT CHIPS • PIGs can do the same job

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

BATTERY CHARGERS CAN BE CUSTOMISED • Fully automatic battery chargers

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

REMARKABLE NEW FOAM • A new high technology thermoplastic foam

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

ARROW UPDATES PRESSURE WASHER Arrow has updated the Professional Pressure

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

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SPEEDY FUEL DRAINS • A fuel tank drainer made by

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

MIGATRONIC ADDITION I An addition to the Migatronic range, the

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

WASTE OIL HEATERS • P. G. W. Engineering reckons it

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...

III WORKSHOP PROFILE

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

DAMP OUT THOSE WINTER PROBLEMS • Damp-Out spray, aimed at

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

PLASTPAIC In ICI Autocolor has added an anti-static cleaner and

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

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FASTEST SELLING MODEL IN WEST GERMANY • Its fastest selling

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

ANOTHER WAY TO SAVE SPACE • Space can be saved

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

GLOWING START • Lucas CAV Dieselstart Glowplugs were launched initially

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...

BEL WIDENS SPHERE OF SERVICE OPERATIONS • BEL (LRT Engineering

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

HUNTING'S BOLD GAMBIT PAYS OFF • The bold gambit by

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

NEILL UPDATE • Neill Tools has brought out a new

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

WHAT ABOUT BRITISH INDUSTRY?

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

MUCH CLEANER ROUTE • Swains of Telford garage manager John

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