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Playing A Key Part
• Parts availability and back-up support are deciding factors when buying a commercial vehicle, according to a survey of 4,000 0-Licence holders in the Nottingham/Sheffield......
Rospa Does It Safely
• About 10 bodyshop employees are killed and 340 are seriously injured every year, says ROSPA. And estimates that there are another 12,000 workplace injuries which keep......
Policy Covers Bums
• A new insurance policy covering serious injuries to employees in the motor trade has been launched under the name of Extra Benefit. Besides the normal benefits, the policy......
Speedy Tools
• Stalthville tools will soon he available to fitters via a fleet of vans following a successful trial by CK Tools. Customers will be able to spread payments by a 'tool club'.......
Bristol Receiver
• Engine reconditioner Bristol Engineering has gone into receivership and will be sold as a going concern by Ernst & Young. Turnover is put at £1.5m.......
Silent Service
• More than 200 exhaust and pipe parts have been added to Bainbridge's Truckmaster range in its new catalogue. Parts references are listed under manufacturer, model type and......
Braking Records
• Bendix's is giving out tokens with its Kit-Plus repair outfits, which can be exchanged for pre-recorded music cassettes. Kit-Plus contains an axle set of brake shoes, wheel......
Running Paint
• Paint manufacturer PPG has added another two mobile demonstration trailers to its fleet. The trailers are equipped with a Deltron mixing scheme, scales, microfiche viewer,......
Kwik Profit • I Kwik-fit's Pre-tax Profits Fell In 1989-90,
from .£18.45m to £15.12m. However, turnover in the year ending 28 February was up by just over £38m to £193.41m. During that period 107 centres were opened and 16 closed......
:n The Charts
• Roadlink International. the UK concessionaire for Beral friction material, is issuing its distributors with a brake lining wear pattern analysis chart. The A3 full-colour......
Clever Fit
• The Institute of the Motor Industry is urging employers and teaching organisations to adopt its Certificate and Licentiate Automotive Engineers qualifications in an effort to......