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RECAPPING on some of last year's successes, the 1983/4 Number 3 edition of Timken Bearing News opens appropriately with comment on the Richard Noble 633 miles/hr Land Speed Record for Britain, secured in the autumn at Black Rock Desert, Nevada. Timken, it will be recalled, came in to supply Noble's Thrust 2 car wheel bearings. There had been trouble with wheels on the earlier Thrust 1 vehicle and Mike Chambers, British Timken's senior service engineer went to Nevada himself with the team to see all went well on the vital attempt — the culmination of Richard Noble's stoic seven‐year bid for the title.

A new all British light aircraft has recently been launched by ARV Aviation Ltd. The company is founded and led by Richard Noble, OBE, whose Thrust 2 jet car project took the World Land Speed Record in 1983. The Super2, a single engine, two seat aircraft which flew for the first time on 11th March from ARV's base at Sandown on the Isle of Wight, promises to reduce dramatically the cost of flying for both private owners and training schools.

Last month in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada, USA, Richard Noble (the British Land Speed Record Holder) was driving Thrust 2 to break the world land speed record of 622 m.p.h. that was set in 1970 by an American.

Mechanical and composite bearings developed for cushioning movement of bridge structures and pipeline supports due to weather, high loads or ground settlement.

This article uses the litigation in National Grid v. Laws to demonstrate two aspects of the law surrounding occupational pension schemes: the wide range of interpretations that are possible when construing pension scheme rules; and the enormous difficulties faced by scheme members when seeking to assert an interpretation of those rules that runs counter to an employer’s major commercial interests.