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A start will be made in the autumn on the Runcorn suspension bridge.
High Duty Alloys, Ltd., Slough, Bucks, have published a data booklet on Magnuminium.
The term of o• ffice of the Scottish Trans
port Users' Consultative Committee has been extended until January 31, 1954.
The overnight expense allowance for coach drivers of Plymouth Co-operative Society in Scotland has been fixed at 30s.
The Gamer industrial tractor (The Commercial Motor, August 28) will run for three hours under full load on a gallon of fuel.
The Institute of the Motor Industry are to hold a ladies' festival at the Park Lane Hotel, Piccadilly, London, S.W.1, on October 1,
The Liverpo• ol office of United
Dominions Trust, Ltd., will be moved on September 21 to Sefton House, Exchange Buildings, Liverpool, 2.
The Minister of Transport will be the principal guest at the annual dinner-dance of the Passenger Vehicle Operators' Association at Grosvenor House, London, WI, on October 5.
Lister Equipment, Ltd., 3 Charlotte Street, Manchester, 1, have introduced a new vehicle-washing dispenser known as the Foam-Master. It is for use with the maker's special brushes.
Oil-pressure gauges will not be fitted to nine Leyland Titan double-deckers being built for St. Helens Transport Department, as it is felt that drivers are apt to worry unnecessarily about oil pressure. Barton Transport, Ltd., have taken over the bus service operated by Mr. J. Randall, of Ashfordby.
The Firestone Tyre and Rubber Co,, Ltd., have donated £1,000 to the Nuffield nursing home appeal.
Thirty-five lorries made by Chrysler Australia, Ltd., are being sent to Indonesia under the Colombo plan.
It is stated that the American Ford and General Motors companies are planning to build manufacturing plants in India.
Thirty members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science visited Leyland Motors, Ltd., on Monday. * Keith and Boyle (London), Ltd., 80 Clapham Road, London, S.W.9, are to hold a Bedford service week from September 21-26.
Plans for a coach station at Westwooa, Scarborough, for East Yorkshire Motor Services, Ltd., have been submitted to Scarborough Town Council.
An economic survey of Denmark has been published by the Stationery Office at 3s. 6d. A survey of Belgium and Luxembourg is also available at 3s. 6d.
George Cohen, Sons and Co., Ltd., are now resuming publication of their catalogues of new and used plant and machinery. The first post-war issue has been produced.
Coach owners operating vehicles in the vicinity of Balmoral Castle are asked by the Scottish Licensing Authority to instruct drivers not to stop in the area during the stay there of the, Royal Family.