Palliard manufactures steering axles with calliper disc or drum brakes (using KNOTT brake technology) for self-propelled machines of up to 13 tons dynamic load capacity per axle.

The new collection How Real Men Do It (Palliard Press) will archive Barela's final episodes of the popular series.

In his day the crime reporter's column was full of exciting words such as palliards, clapper dudgeons, whipjacks, priggers and dummerers, not to mention the odd kinchin mort!

He said: "The Elizabethan and Jacobean equivalent of modern 'scroungers' were known as 'rufflers', 'palliards' or 'clapperdogeons' ...dangerous vagrants who allegedly plastered their bodies with fake sores to dupe the unwary into providing assistance.