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• France Cheap Motorways
The French Motorways Association conducted a study last October to investigate the comparative costs of running a 38-tonne truck on a road or on a motorway. The tests were......
• Spain Iberica Losses
Motor lberica, Nissan's Spanish commercial vehicle subsidiary, cut losses by 21% last year to Pta 8.5 billion (S65m) Financial Times, March 13.......
• Italy Trucks On Trains
Heavy goods vehicles could travel on trains in Italy if new plans to speed up railways are implemented. Ente Ferrovie, which runs the Italian railway system has acquired 1,000......
• West Germany Home Counties
C W Shipping, of Hayes Freight Terminal, Middlesex, has formed a partnership with FIEGE International Spedition to operate a guaranteed twice weekly road-train service between......
• Sweden
ELECTRIC CHAIR Tests have been made on an "electric chair" by a leading Swedish insurance company, Skandia of Stockholm, following an alarming rise in vehicle thefts. A person......
Artic Buses
LinkOping's Trafik AB has ordered ten complete artic buses type Scania CN112A from Motorcentrum in Linkoping, Sweden. The order is one of the largest ever received for this type......
• Hungary New Buses
A total of 1,140 new buses and eight trolleybuses were added to Hungary's public road and city transportation fleets during 1985. The Herceghalom/Biatrobagy section of the M-1......
N Soviet Union
AUTO WAREHOUSE Eureka Elecyronic Identification equipment was chosen by Davy Marris Systems for the identification and tracking of finished goods in an automated warehouse near......
• South Africa Pot Plants A Pot Plant Used To
an ideal environment and regular attention can suffer during a removal that involves both transport and storage. Fortunately someone has at last recognised a need in the market......
• Usa
MEDIUM WEIGHT ENGINES Ford has stopped buying Detroit Diesel Allison's 8.2 litre, vee-eight diesel engine for use in its medium weight (Class 6 and 7) North American trucks.......
• China Volvo Buses
The Shanghai Transit Company has signed a contract with VIS Transportation Systems, a Volvo Group company, for the rationalisation and streamlining of Shanghai's bus network.......