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the wrong tree, Sheffield MEP Roger Barton has delivered a leather-clad protest to the European Parliament against plans to restrict motorcycle power.
Labour MEP Barton says the restrictions could hit newly revived Triumph which is challengingJapanese supremacy at the hairy end of the market He explained this to the crusty Eurocrats in his leathers during a parliamentary session— before leaving them eating dust as he roared away on his powerful steed (that's enough biker cliches—Ed). Golditrucks rownie points accrued on a competitive basis between Parcelforce depots result in gold-liveried units for the top depot. These Leyland Daf 7.5 and 3.5tonners were bodied by Marshall SPV of Cambridge; they have just been supplied to the parcel operator which is still awaiting privatisation. In the meantime, only the cream get the gold blend...
The pen is naughtier than the road?
Of you saw this flashing by you on a motorway would you be shocked or tickled? European and British Truck Racing Champion Steve Parrish is still awaiting a court date after pleading not guilty to having a numberplate with the wrong spacing, size and configuration.
Tm going to tell the magistrate that my mother always told me size didn't matter," says Steve, but he's not joking when he adds that its ludicrous for the kw to waste time on such a trivial matter— especially as he has used the plate without complaint for five years The copper who nobbled Steve last month hoped to prosecute him for having an obscene plate: it turns out that no such kw exists. The sentence is unlikely to be a shff one. Memo to the Hawk: that's enough schoolboy humour for one issue —Ed In the meantime, you can watch Steve Parrish in action at Brands Hatch on 4-5 April in the European Championships, throwing around a Mercedes 1450S for Team BP Mercedes If it has a numberplate, chances are you won't be able to read ie British Coal on board rifish Coal has joined bosses' union the Engineers and Managers' Association in its TUC-backed convoy taking aid to Bosnia.
Three BC lorries will join convoys leaving this month two will carry coal, the other food on the journey to Split. The vehicles are driven by volunteers from the electricity companies. Surely BC's involvement demonstrates a very worthwhile outlet for any coal surpluses before shutting any pits? Just a thought..
Before time began ard to believe that there were lorries before CM, the two are now so inseparable. But British Lorries 1900-1992 by SW Stevens-Stratten proves there were, in a pictorial history featuring all the great marques, many sadly abandoned to the fortunes of time.
Whither, for example, Albion, Armstrong-Saurer, Bean, Beardmore, Caledon, Fowler, Garner, Garrett, Halley, Hallford, Karrier, Lacre, Latil, McCurd, Maudslay, Pagefield, Peerless, Sentinel, Singer, Thornycroft and Trojan? They are all here, and many more, with brief histories and working pictures of some classic wagons.
The Hawk has three copies of this £16.95 hardback. I'm giving them away to the first three readers who can tell me the year CMbegan publication. Answers on a postcard please by 12 March.
British Lorries 1900-1992 is published by Ian Allan on (0932) 855909.