Friday quiz: JCB goes to town | Who will head the ERA? | Nixon Hire’s new motto

1) Why was JCB driving a backhoe loader past the UK parliament building this week?

• As part of an urgent enhanced maintenance plan to repair parts of the grade I listed Palace of Westminster threatened by fire and flooding

• To highlight a change in legislation that allows hydrogen-fuelled construction and agricultural machinery to use UK roads

• It took a wrong turn on the way to a celebratory parade of historic JCB backhoe loaders marking the millionth machine being produced

2) Who has been named as the next secretary general of the European Rental Association (ERA) after Michel Petijean announced plans to step down at the end of June?

• Arne Severin

• Carole Bachmann

• António Costa

3) What is UK-based Nixon Hire’s new motto?

• Committed to your success

• Experts in sustainable sites

• Nixon: Helping you with fixin’

4) Manitou, Kiloutou Group and Bouygues this week put the first the first retrofitted telehandler into operation. Where is the initial trial underway?

• Europe’s largest hospital construction site in Nantes

• ITER, the international nuclear fusion research and engineering project under construction in southern France

• The Grand Paris Express metro expansion project

5) How much is Japanese construction machinery manufacturer Komatsu forecasting operating profits will fall in 2025?

• 2.5%

• 27.3%

• 273%

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