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Thomas Tilling, Ltd., is to erect a bus garage in Whitehawk Road, Brighton.
Plymouth borough engineer is to report on the use of mechanical road sweepers, methods of -street sweeping, and other matters.
A sub-committee of the Eastbourne authority is to consider a request from the local ratepayers' association for unilateral parking in the town.
The transport committee of Rotherham Corporation is in negotiation with Whiston Parish Council and Rotherham Rural Distria Council regarding transport facilities in those areas.
The first double-deck bus—a Leyland Titan—to undergo an exhaustive trial in Durban, South Africa, has been placed in service by , the municipal authorities of that town for a six months' test.
Arrangements are to be made for withdrawing Bradford Corporation's trolley-bus service on the Frizinghall and Bolton Woods section. This follows the agreement of the West Yorkshire Road Car Co., Ltd., to cease its bus service to Clayton, if the corporation took such action.
Owing to a misunderstanding, in the article entitled "Brazil and its Demands for Mechanical Transport," . which appeared in our issue dated December 1st, the method of interpreting Brazilian currency was incorrect. The amounts given in dollars should be multiplied by 1,000. For instance, $540 should have been written as 5408000. Gloucester Corporation has in view replacing part of the tramways by a system of buses: Liverpool Corporation has appointed a special committee to inquire into the transport services of the city.
• The Ministry of Transport has made an Order extending to December, 1936, the restrictions As to the use of motor vehicles on Chine Hill, Shanklin.