On The Line To Hong Kong

A contract to supply more than 200 74ft-long passenger cars for Hong Kong's billion-dollar underground railway development is keeping several people in Britain busy. Overseas......

Fiddlers Three

About three in every hundred passengers on Greater Manchester Transport buses swindle the authority. They may be making £2 million a year in this way and no doubt regard it as a......

Backfire

"If you want labour trouble, buy a Merc" could be a valid slogan. An operator who recently bought a Mercedes-Benz 1626 model with sleeper-cab has locked it in his warehouse......

Instant Reaction

Harry Heywood, writing in Practical Motorist, pays tribute to a "lorry driver who lost his coolant but didn't lose his cool." The driver of a foreign-registered Fiat car waiting......

Local Colour

A telephone kiosk was shipped from Ashford, Kent, to its West German twin town, Bad Mun streifel, in Townsend Thoresen's European Enterprise. The German town wishes to show off......

Taste Of Life

A senior master at Birmingham secondary school is to spend a year with National Carriers to learn what industry is like. Half his time will be spent on manual work. If while......

Ee The World

Phil Siret, a mechanic at National Carriers in Oxford, has won a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship. He is visiting France, Holland and Germany to look at road......

Keep Hold C The Good Ell

ERF B-series 32-ton-g tractors with Gardner 8LX engines are appar denting the British mark high-quality foreign veh The independent testii of British Car Auctions, have 14.......

Assault By Smolil

A magistrate in Sydney, raiia, has held that for passenger deliberately te smoke into the face of one an assault. The plaintiff anti-smoking activist. Would it be assault to the......

Hugh Th4 Dreamer

"My dream is that wet British-based, British-o motor industry," Hugh Ion, the retiring presidi the Amalgamated Uni Engineering Workers Leyland students. He doesn't need to d He......