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A new ambulance station is to be built at Blackpool, at a cost of £3,000.
The Surrey authority is to reconsider the question of a 10-m.p.h. limit at Share.
Motorbuses have been substituted for tramcars on the adlesley Old Road route at Coventry.
Glasgow city engineer is to prepare plans for the extension of the garage at the Govan refuse works.
The Saurer Co., of Arbon, is reported to have supplied a fleet of 50 oil-engined buses for service in Wilna, Poland.
Burnley Corporation is to co-operate with Nelson Corporation in running a bus service between Rosegrove and Nelson.
At the end of November, 1931, there were 4,442 commercial vehicles, 663 motorbuses, and 1,913 taxicabs in use in Hungary.
Rollo Products, Ltd., which specializes in concrete floor dressings, has removed its offices to the works at 154, Albany Street, London, N.W.1.
The watch committee of Newport (Mon.) Corporation is to obtain a report regarding a suggestion for the provision of a bus station near Mill Street.
Yarmouth Corporation is taking steps to obtain powers to prescribe the routes to be taken by public service vehicles entering the borough, and to regulate parking. Barrow-in-Furness Corporation is to make an amended application for sanction to borrow £31,827 for the replacement of trams by buses.
A toll is not to be levied on vehicles using the road through Raineliffe Woods, subject to the rights of Scarborough Corporation beingobserved.
The Ministry of Transport and the borough councils in London are in negotiation with regard to extensions of automatic traffic control throughout the metropolitan area.
Last year East Ham Corporation issued 17,471 motor licences, bringing in £46,262, as compared with 18,983 (£48,912) a year earlier. Drivers' licences numbered 6,623.
A new garage of steel construction is to be erected at Milehouse to accommodate 64 of Plymouth Corporation's buses. The tender of A. J. Main and Co., Ltd., London, at £11,078, is favoured.
We have been asked to point out that patents have been applied for in connection with the new system of construction incorporating standarized units, which has been developed by H. V. Burlingham, Ltd., Newhouse Road, Marton, Blackpool.
The businesses of Hans Renold, Ltd., Didsbury, Manchester, and the Coventry Chain Co., Ltd., Spon End, Coventry, have been taken over by the Renold and Coventry Chain Co., Ltd., which will conduct its operations from the addresses hitherto used by the separate concerns.