Goodyear announces RED Driving School partnership
Goodyear has announced a new partnership with RED Driving School, through which the tyre manufacturer will disseminate safety information to learner drivers via a new website and social media campaigns. The new collaboration will run alongside Goodyear’s existing national driving academy initiative in UK schools.
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RainSport 3 adds performance and rolling resistance improvements
With the launch of the new RainSport 3 at the end of September, engineers at Uniroyal have developed what they call “a new generation of asymmetrical profiles combining the advantages of unidirectional tread concepts with those of asymmetrical tread concepts”. With its flow-optimized, asymmetrical tread, the Rainsport 3 offers a high level of protection against aquaplaning, precise handling on wet and dry roads, uniform abrasion, and comfortable driving behaviour.
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New Maxxis pages ‘more than just a website’
Maxxis International has launched a new website, which the company says is designed to showcase the many facets of the growing brand. www.Maxxis.co.uk offers new functionality, as well as opening the door to anyone looking to find out more about the fast-growing tyre brand.
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BEN’s royal visitor
Following BENs recent announcement of its plans to create a new residential and retirement ‘village, the charity was honoured by a visit from His Royal Highness Prince Michael of Kent GCVO who laid the foundation stone of the state-of-the-art care centre currently under construction on the site of Lynwood, BENs long-standing centre in Sunninghill, Berkshire.
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Manbat pleased with exhibition triple-header
Battery supplier Manbat has supported three consecutive events in Telford, Birmingham and Paris. “Despite the complication of the timing of the events, two of which ran simultaneously, Im delighted to say that all three exhibitions were a great success,” said marketing manager Myles Pemberton.
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First Line presented with Groupauto suppliers award
Borg & Beck brand owner and UK parts supplier, First Line was presented with the presented with the runners-up trophy in the trading group’s ‘Supplier of the Year’ at the Groupauto trade show. Commercial director, Alan Wood and national accounts manager, Ian Boyle picked up the accolade at the Telford International Centre hosted show’s dinner.
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Kumho names Cash for Causes 2013 winner
Kumho Tyres awarded Kindlington Guides £5,000 in its second annual Cash for Causes competition. More than 400 charities and good causes signed up for the tyre manufacturer’s online public voting contest, sharing a fund of £100,000.
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Honda presents Bridgestone with supplier award
Bridgestone has received the Honda of the UK Manufacturing (HUM) supplier award 2013 for delivery performance. The award was presented to Bridgestone at the HUM Annual Supplier Convention held at its Swindon manufacturing plant in the UK on 1 October. The tyre manufacturer supplies tyres to HUM for the Civic and Jazz models.
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Molinari joins Pirelli at customer golf day
Pirelli’s UK customer golf day included an exciting guest spot from two-time Ryder Cup winner Francesco Molinari at The Wisley, a prestigious golf course in West Surrey, earlier this month. Pirelli is supporting the golfer throughout this season, and in an innovative piece of cross-promotion Molinari’s club grips are colour-coded to correspond to the different types of tyres used by Pirelli in Formula One.
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CCTV footage highlights the inconvenience and peril of tyre failure
Compared with the material Facebook considers fit for viewing it is pretty tame stuff, but a video published by TyreSafe and the Highways Agency on the latter’s YouTube channel illustrates very graphically what can happen when tyre maintenance is neglected. The clip is one of a series uploaded in conjunction with October’s Tyre Safety Month and gives a motorway camera view of the moment a tyre fails on the front of an HGV, sending it into the central reservation at speed.
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