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Tread Carefully
THE British Rubber Manufacturers' Association which represents Britain's tyre producers, has announced a simplified tyre grading system. Where new cross-ply and radial tyres......
Transport 'vital To Scottish Prosperity'
SCOTLAND — with the new boost of oil — could respond to become the key to European progress, Sir Daniel Pettit, chairman of the National Freight Corporation, told a meeting of......
Taskers
E 1 / 2 million AN ORDER worth some £500,000 has been won by Taskers Tra i le rs for 160 semitrailers for European operation by bra Inc. The contract, concluded during the......
Wheel Export
AN EXPORT contract has been won by the wheel division of GKN Sankey Ltd of Telford for the supply of truck wheels to the Truck and Coach Division of General Motors and the Ford......
Sparks For Continentals
A NEW range of "European" batteries suitable for Continental commercial vehicles has been introduced by Lucas. The range covers DAF, Mercedes, Volvo and Scania trucks.......
Decline In Petrol Demand
FIGURES published by the Institute of Petroleum for the first six months of 1974 show that the total demand during that period was down by 8.0 per cent over the 1973 return. But......
Eirf Accuses Mulley
of arbitrary cuts FRED MULLEY, Minister for Transport. was accused last week of increasing "arbitrary" cuts in the roadbuilding programme. The British Road Federation claims in......
People
Bill Scott has been appointed md of newly formed Alcan Transport Services, an operating division of Alcan Metal Centres Ltd. J. C. Clyno, formerly managing director of Jamaica......