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The accounts of Douglas (I. of M.) Corporation for the past year show a surplus of £627 on the bus undertaking.
There are now over 120 towns in Great Britain and Northern Ireland where automatic traffic signals are in operation, * The corporations of Stockton, Middlesbrough and West Hartlepool are seeking powers to run bus services in south-west Durham.
According to a French contemporary, the average life of pneumatic tyres on the buses in Paris is now 27,625 miles, as against 24,500 miles in 1928.
Coventry Corporation is to abandon the tramivays between Broadgate and Annesley Old Road and to substitute a servide of buses running via Corporation Street. * * A conference of the Federation Internationale des Transports ,Commerciaux par Automobiles is to be held in Berne, Switzerland, on September 4th and 5th next.
The Parliamentary committee of Stretford Urban District Council has agreed to allow the lapse of the powers obtained some time ago for the construction of tramways.
Rotherham Corporation is to appeal against the refusal of the Yorkshire Commissioners to license a municipal hfis service, for the convenience of miners, to Thurcroft Pit.
Eastbourne Watch Committee reports that, so far this year, the vehicles parked at the central coach station numbered 2,261, as against 2,001 for the corresponding period a year ago.
The finance committee of Cheriton Urban District Council has approved a plan for the erection on the Sandgate Station site, Of a garage, 700 ft. long, for buses of the East Kent Road Car Co., Ltd.
For the year ended March gist last 57,182 motor licences were 'issued by Warwick County Council, being an in crease of 5.26 per cent., whilst 81,236 drivers' licences were granted, an increase of 5.5 per cent.
The highways committee of Isle of Ely County Council is notifying owners of garages on county roads that the.coustruction of doors opening outwards on to the•highway constitutes an infringement of the by-laws.
The highways committee of the Warwick County Council ha,s now completed the plans for the first section of the Coventry by-pass road between Green Lane railway bridge and Toll Bar End, the cost being estimated at 1105,500.
The body of the Morris-Commercial Dictator coach illustrated on-page 822 of our' issue dated' "July 28th was built by Caffyns, Ltd., Marine Parade, Eastbourne, which is specializing in passenger bodywork for this make of chassis. At the end of May there were 30,359 motor vehicles in Hungary, of which 4,424 were commercial vehicles.
The total amount of salaries and wages paid by the railway companies for the year 1930 was 1114,536,000, compared with 1115,284,000 in 1929.
Mr. C. E. Page has been appointed by Lissen, Ltd., as its representative for motor accessories in the counties of Gloucester, Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Devon and Cornwall.
The Wileot (Parent) Co., Ltd., which makes the 'Wefoospring cover, and itS associated company, Equipments,. Ltd., have removed to 152-156, Great Portland Street, London, W.1.
We regret to learn of the death of Mr. A. C. Buckland, senior representative for Messrs. R. Cadisch and Sons, Red Lion Square, London, W.C.1, the well-known motor factors.. Mr. -Buckland had represented this firm for 30 years.