Strato Tour

Seddon Atkinson service 'staff have been on a tour of parent company Pegaso's Continental factories to improve their knowledge of the Strato range.......

Eagle Hovers

• Perkins still has not set a date for the launch of its uprated TX Eagle engine, the 298kW (400hp) 400Tx (CM 30 August-5 September).......

Plasti-baeten To Set Up In The Uk

• Luxembourg reefer bodybuilder Plasti-Baeten is setting up a sales and marketing company in the UK and plans to follow this with an assembly plant. It already has a sales......

Awd 7.5-tonners Switch Over To Lipe

• AWL) is to fit Lipe clutches as standard on its 7.5-tonners — they are the last of AWD's range to convert to clutches from the Rossendale-based manufacturer. Lipes are already......

Eurotunnel Prototypes

• Commercial Motor has obtained pictures of Eurotunnel's new prototype Channel Tunnel railfreight wagons. They are the final designs and will almost certainly be used when the......

Boalloy Front-running Rails For Liverpool

• Boalloy has built five Tautliner semi-trailers with a Ushape rail that enables the curtains to be pulled around the front of the bulkhead when the vehicle is being loaded. The......

Cold Out In Africa

• Wincanton Engineering has built five milk tankers for the Dairy Corporation of Kampala in Uganda: two 24-tonners and three 13-tonners The vehicles are unusual because they......