Daily Archives: October 21, 2024

Monday’s Friday Reads – 21 October 2024

• Possible Scope of Sadiq Khan’s plans for Oxford Street (On London) • TfL Invites Bids for New London Trams Fleet (Rail Technology) • The Rise, Fall, & Rise Again of the Leeds Tram (Railway Technology) • How NHS England is planning to decarbonise its transport & travel (FleetNews) • Historic Swindon Railway Village Transformed ‘No-go Area’ to Heritage Neighbourhood…

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Survey, Auto Suppliers View Net Zero as Short-Term Threat

More than two thirds of UK automotive component makers (68%) see the transition to net zero as a short-term threat, but almost all (93%) recognise that meeting the challenge of decarbonisation will be vital for their long-term business prospects. The findings come from a BDO poll of C-suite executives at 100 UK automotive component manufacturing companies with turnovers of more…

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Wider Wantage Wanderings (maxi)

The Bible Book Of Ecclesiastes? The occasionally remembered song by the Byrds was released in 1965, but was a Pete Seager composition from 1959; when fbb was 14! It is taken directly from the book of Ecclesiastes in the Old Testament. It is a book which many Christians find difficult to take on board because it suggests that everything is…

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