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The finance committee of Nuneaton Borough Council is to consider the question of the municipality operating its own bus services.
During last year Nottingham Corporation's trolley-buses made a net profit of £4,900, whilst the loss on the buses was reduced from £9,000 to £5,022.
In the advertisement of the Associated Equipment Co., Ltd., appearing on the front cover of our issue dated October 7th, the name of the company operating a large fleet of Regent buses should have been given as Thomas Tilling, Ltd., and not as stated.
H. G. Burford and Co. ha .s removed to larger works at Norfolk Works, Princes Road, Teddington, Middlesex.
During the seven months ended July last 2,039 olid tyres, valued at 18,454, were imported into the Irish Free State, as compared with 2,490 and £12,320 respectively in the corresponding period a year ago.
It is stated that negotiations are proceeding between the Southern Railway Co., the Aldershot and District Traction Co., Ltd., and certain other interests for the construction of a large bus station in Aldershot.
Eastbourne Corporation is seeking sanction to borrow £8,000 for the development of the Central Motor Coach Station.
The chairman of the tramways committee of Manchester City Council has intimated that the council may run one or two crude-oil buses as an experiment.
Richard Garrett and Sons, Ltd., Leiston, Suffolk, has just issued No. 5 of the first volume of "The Garrett Gazette." In the main it contains details of users' experiences, which point to the success of Garrett wagons in different classes of service.