Rescue demo
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• This years AVRO Expo stand at CM's Truckfest features a rescue demonstration of a laden car transporter and overturned double-decker bus, plus over 30 manufacturers' stands. Strong man Geoff Capes will be on hand to give a lift and sign autographs.
Water gear
• Anglian Water has bought six Leyland Daf 60.180 rigids fitted with GB Bodies' steel tipping bodies. These have two pivoting partitions for carrying a mix of materials and spoil, selfloaded by Atlas 3006B cranes with Kinshofer rotating clamshell buckets.
Air-sprung trailer
• 1VI&G Tankers and Trailers is showing its latest 13.6m air-sprung lightweight trailer built to accept bolt-up curtained, dry freight or insulated bodywork at this year's IRTE exhibition at Telford.
Tough trailer
• Tendercuts Meats of Eastleigh has brought Klege Europ's first Klegeplexpanelled, 26-pallet reefer trailer into the UK for contract work via Hallmark Contract Hire of Caine. Klege claims five times the strength of GRP and total rejection of water vapour ingress for its new panel.
Better refuse • Laird Municipals has launched a 26m3 version of its VarioPress refuse collection vehicle for 8x4 chassis and second generation RotoPress models which feature improved capacities and down-line service costs.
Contract refuse
• BFI Wastecare has invested £1.65m in 21 Dennis Eagle waste collection vehicles to serve an existing and renewed Kensington and Chelsea refuse collection contract up to April 1998. The order includes nine Phoenix TwinPack recycling bodies on standard Dennis chassis and four Eurobin lift systems on Dennis Elite chassis.