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• When the London Bakers Buying Association decided it would no longer make do with trucks and bodies not designed specifically for high street distribution it turned to Daf and Besco. The result is an altogether nore efficient distribution operation. To find out how and why, we have been road testing one of the LB BA's drop frame Daf 2100s with Besco Eurowall body. The first road test report of a truck of this type is in next week's issue.
• A mixed bag of topics, all related to high street distribution, were dealt with at the recent Mercedes-Benz Transport 100 seminar. We have been looking more closely at two of the Mercedes drawbar outfits which were on display, one operated by London Carriers, the other by Clarke Packaging.
• Since Bedford launched the Midi back in 1984, the spotlight has been taken off its much longer-serving panel van — the CH. In next week's CM we put that right with a road test of the big-volume CF280 model, which is also the first of a new series of Commercial Motor long-term evaluation vehicles.