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20th October 1931
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Cardiff Corporation is to try out an oil-engined bus.

Dundee Corporation is considering replacing further tram routes by motorbus services.

Glasgow Corporation is to make another effort to obtain permission to build its own bus bodies.

Alnwick Urban District Council has been recommended by the Traffic Commissioners to convert the ancient market-place into a bus station.

Watford Watch Committee recommends that no refunds should be made to bus proprietors returning hackneycarriage plates. The National Omnibus and Transport Co., Ltd., asked for 2s. per plate.

The Motor Show plans of the Ford Motor Co., Ltd., include a series of demonstrations with commercial vehicles. These will be given at Dagenham on Tuesday and Thursday of this week, whilst on Wednesday the company's dealers are being invited to an exhibition of Ford films at a cinema in the vicinity of Olympia. The Devon port Mercantile Association is asking Plymouth Watch Committee to provide a bus station at Devonport.

The tramways committee of Douglas (I.o.M.) Corporation reports a net loss of £2,176 on the transport undertaking for the past year.

Christchurch is the first city in New Zealand to have a fleet of trolley-buses. The Tramway Board has now seven such vehicles in operation and all have British chassis.

Plymouth's borough engineer has been elected by the Institution of Municipal and County Engineers to collaborate with the Ministry of Transport in its experimental road work.

Sir William Morris, Bart., has presented £300 to Oxford Corporation for the provision of up-to-date equipment in the engineering laboratory of the City Technical School.

As an experiment for three months, a service of motorbuses is to be operated instead of trolley-buses on the Frizinghall and Bolton Woods section of Bradford Corporation's system.

The death occurred last week of Mr. Thomas Miller Sleigh, who was in charge of the Glasgow branch of Rossleigh, Ltd., and a director of the concern.

A special sub-committee of Newcastle City Council has decided in favour of the Haymarket, as against a site in Liverpool Street, for the proposed new !bus station.

Plymouth Corporation's transport manager proposes to withdraw, within the next few weeks, the trams on the Beaumont Road and Prince Rock section, and to replace them by double deck buses.

"The Characteristics of a Successful Garage in 1940" is the subject selected by the council of the Institute of the Motor Trade for this year's paper; members compete for the gold medal presented by Lord Wakefield.

Portsmouth Corporation's transport committee has now accepted the tender of Mr. F. A. Freer for the supply of 30-cwt. tipping lorries with drivers at £1 7s. 6d. per day, in place of a 'withdrawn quotation of £1 5s. per day.


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