Wot? No Independents?

RUMOURS that the Bus and Coach Council does not wholly represent the needs and interests of its independent members have been encouraged by its What Price the Bus Bill? response......

By Appointment To Small-firm Champion

DAVID TRIPPIER, Minister for Small Industries, was so impressed by AbeIs International's headquarters at Watton, Norfolk, that he immediately asked the company to undertake his......

Return Of The Keystone Cops

A SARDONIC Terry Law, chairman of NALGO's national transport committee, paints a primitive picture of the effects of legislation based on the Government's White Paper, Buses.......

You'll Be Excellent — Or Else!

"THE PURSUIT of Excellence," a campaign by which British Road Services is seeking perfection in all things, is, says the group newspaper, Hotline, "not all a nine-day wonder —......

£12m Drive To Save Battered Children

THE MOTOR industry, led by Ray Horrocks, BL's group chief executive (cars), is lending its weight to the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children's campaign to......

World Tram Hopes In A Garden Shed

THE SCOTTISH International Tramway Association has been formed to look after a garden shed. This began life 80 years ago as an open-top doubledeck tram operated by Paisley and......

£215,000 Return On £25,000 Gamble

GEOFFREY Pygall, managing director of British Road Services, has every reason to enjoy Christmas. The £25,000 that he staked in the National Freight Consortium about three years......