11-13 Double At Motor Show '90

• Mercedes-Benz will launch two 17-tonners at next year's Motor Show in October. In addition to a re-cabbed 1617, designated the 1717, Mercedes will be courting the high-power......

Eastern Manoeuvres

• Having won the £155 million contract to supply the British Army with 5,350 fourtonners, Leyland Daf is hoping to make inroads into the Middle and Far Eastern military markets.......

L135s To Move Glass Mountain

• Everest Double Glazing ha taken delivery of nine adapted Volkswagen LT35 diesel vans for use as installation vehicles. The LTs are all high-roof long-wheelbase models with the......

Sleepers To Pull Beds

• Leyland Daf is supplying six new drawbar vehicles to bed manufacturer Silentnight. Four of them are FA2100s which will go into Silentnight's own fleet to be driven by their......

Nissan Base

• Nissan Motor of Tokyo is to spend .E31 million in the next year buying land, buildings and equipment for Nissan European Technology Centre Co, the company's European R&D......

Awds Go West • White Weldon Construction Of Swansea Has

bought three AWE) TL13-16s to work on a new contract. They have Perkins-Phaser engines and 5.35m 3 Withey Maxilite dropside bodies which allow a payload of almost 8.5 tonnes.......

Ryding On

• Ryder has spent £10 million on a 685-vehicle replacement programme, with Iveco Ford, Leyland Daf, Mercedes-Benz and MAN. The vehicles will be used mainly on existing......