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Depot for B.R.S.: British Road Services plan shortly to build a depot at Hove.
New Bus Station: Colchester Transport Department proposes soon to construct a bus station and car park at a cost of E55.270.
Import Restriction: Motor vehicles, chassis and bodywork are subject to import licensing which has been imposed by the Cuban Government.
Hire-purchase Sales:Hire-purchase debt rose by about £120m. in 1958 to a total of
£604m. Commercial vehicle business amounted to some £49m.
More Parking Meters: Manchester, Li verpool , Bristol, Birmingham and Sheffield have applied to the Minister of Transport for power to introduce parking meters.
More Room Now: The National Benzoic Co., Ltd., have moved their southern division offices to larger premises at Mercury House, 100 High Street, Guildford.
Dunlop in India : A £1,800,000 tyre factory has been opened by the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd„ at Ambattur, near. Madras. Output will include 134.000 giant tyres a year.
Yale Scottish Depot : Sales, service and repair facilities are offered for operators of Yale trucks at a new depot at Wilson Place. Nerstori Industrial Estate, East Kilbride, Lanark, Instructive Gifts: A sectioned gearbox and rear axle are antorig -components presented by Guy Motom Ltd., to the Government Trade Centre in Kano. Nigeria. for instructional purposes.
Thornyeroft Distributors: Merchiston Motor Works, 'Bryson Road and West Bryson Road, Edinburgh, have been appointed distributors of Thornycroft vehicles in Edinburgh and district.
Kingsway Underpass? London County Council are considering two schemes for the use of the old Kingsway tram tunnel as an underpass for traffic between the Embankment and Kingsway.
Bus Indicators: Until conclusions have been reached on proposals for the standardization of direction indicators, the Minister of Transport is not willing to make their use on buses compulsory.
Extra Carriageway : A second carriageway, 30 ft. wide and nearly 11 miles long, on the East Ham-Barking by-pass, was opened last
Friday. The work was completed five months ahead of schedule.
Flasher Glare: The Metropolitan Boroughs' Standing Joint Committee have submitted observations to the Ministry of Transport about the glare caused by brake lights and flashing direction indicators.
500 Cafés: Five hundred recommended cafés are listed in the latest edition of the " Drivers' Guide," published at Is. by the Road Transport Catering and Accommodation Joint Committee. 146 New Bond Street, London, W.1.
Costly Road Scheme: London County Council are to buy land in the neighbourhood of Old Street, City Road and Great Eastern Street, at a cost of nearly E2m., for a big road-improvement scheme to be carried out in 1961-62.
Thnpsou Fleet Additions: Ten long-distance tounng coaches, four of which will be based on the Continent, are to be added to the fleet of A. Timpson and Sons.t.t.d.. Catford. The A.E.C. Reliance coaches will have coachwork by Weymann and Harrington.
David Brown Service: The sales department of the David Brown Construction Equipment Co., Ltd., formerly located at Hanworth Park, Feltham, Middx, has been divided into northern and southern depots. The southern area, covering the south of England and South Wales, will continue to be operated from Feltham. The northern depot, covering North Wales, the north of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, will be located at Moll Springs Mills. Honley. Huddersfield.