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The following events are scheduled for May and early June.
May 2-10 Barcelona Motor Show.
3 Historic Commercial Vehicle Club. London-Brighton run.
6 Chartered Institute of Transport. 7.30pm, County Hotel, Canterbury. B. R. King, Ribble Motor Services on passenger transport co-ordination.
Freight Transport Association. Anglia members visit Vauxhall, Dunstable.
Institute of Road Transport Engineers. Rochester police station. T. Green, Norde Suspensions.
!RTE. Stoke-on-Trent. L. Kilbourne, Dalton and Co on fuel economy.
11 IRTE. West Scotland visit to British Rail high speed train.
12 IRTE. Beds and North Bucks. Brian Walton, Allison Transmissions.
FTA. Solent members visit Marconi, Portsmouth Airport 1 pm.
CIT. 6.30pm, Thompsons Arms, Sackville Street, Manchester. T. Simpson, Opinion Research Centre.
CIT. 6.30pm, Queens Hotel, Leeds. Malcolm Banks, Littlewoods.
Institute of Transport Administration. 7.45pm, Bristol Omnibus Company, Lawrence Hill, Bristol. Peter Smart, Michelin Tyres.
13 IRTE. South London. Brian Veale on historic commercial vehicles. !RTE. Swindon. Bowr earthmoving hydraulics. !RTE. Worcestershire. Gas Ltd speaker on Autoblend as a fuel for vehicles.
14 loTA. 7.20pm, visit to Fl Oil Ltd, Cross Green In rial Estate, Leeds.
14/15 !RTE. National Confer Solihull.
15-17 Association of Vehil covery Operators, exhi and conference, NEC, mingham.
16-24 Turin Motor Show.
18 !RTE. Surrey Hants Bordi Col Wessendorff, Army repair and maintenanc, armoured vehicles on battlefield.
19 loTA. North-east centre to DFDS ferry Wins Churchill.
IRTE. Midlands. Midland midibus talk by R. Har Midland Red and G. Hills partment of Transport.
20 IRTE. West London. L speaker on electric veh and batteries.
21 IRTE. East Midlands. Lt Wessendorff on armo fighting vehicles.
IRTE. Huntingdon. C. pley, Ratcliff Tail Lifts commercial vehicle trans sions.
24-29 UITP. International gress of public trans' Royal Dublin Society, Dul 27 'RTE. Woolwich and So east London. M. Gilt Voith Transmissions.
28 IRTE. Ireland North. C Gourley on role of the engineer.
28-31 Road Haulage Ass( tion. Tipping Convention exhibition, Harrogate.
June 1-5 International Road Fed tion. World mee Stockholm, Sweden.
3-6 Royal Bath and West St Shepton Mallett, Somers' two vehicles, one of which eing delivered to China r Bus and the other to KowMotor Bus, are 12m long. CMB vehicle is fitted with seats and has provision for tanding passengers a total city of 168. It is powered by of the first turbo-charged lner 6LXCT engines rated at ■ hp at 1,950rpm and derated iur per cent.
e KMB bus has 124 seats provision for 34 standing angers, giving a total capeof 158. It is powered by a ;-Royce Eagle Mark Ill enrated at 230bhp at 1,900rpm ted by three per cent.
ith of the transverse rear-end buses are fitted with the -proven Metrobus driveline faith D851 three-speed torconvertor gearbox.
1th vehicles have two en and both, with the exion of axle loading and all length, comply with all ent and proposed EEC reguns.
ie new body structure is ular in concept and has mon body sizes using only ?. types of main structural linium extrusions with two