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21st July 1931, Page 43
21st July 1931
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By the end of the year Middlesbrough Corporation proposes to displace the trams on the Norton-Stockton route by motorbuses.

During the past municipal year Portsmouth Corporation buses recorded a loss of £6,091, compared with a loss of £6,064 in the previous year.

During the last two weeks in July Morris-Commercial vehicles of different types are being exhibited at 12 agricultural shows in various parts of the country.

Several publications relating to its metal rectifiers have recently been circulated by the Westinghouse Brake and Saxby Signal Co., Ltd., 82, York Road, London, N.1.

No interim dividend is being paid on the shares of the Gilford Motor Co., Ltd., in respect of the year ending September 30th, 1931. The previous year's interim allocation was 7i per cent.

It has been suggested that H.M. the King should be invited to perform the opening ceremony in connection with the new Mersey tunnel, the under-river roadway linking Lancashire and Cheshire, which will be officially opened in November next year.

We understand that Barker and Co. (Coachhuilders), Ltd., is doing an creasing amount of business with coachoperating companies in connection with its dipping headlights.

As the road from Hatfield to Keadby cannot be widened owing to the existence of large drainage dykes, Lincoln County Council is to construct a new road at a cost of £130,000. .

The Metropolitan Traffic Commissionee has informed Watford Corporation that he is not obliged to supply local authorities with particulars of road-se:vice licences granted to operators. • Messrs. Vincents of Reading, Station Square, Reading, point out that the horsebox sliown at the top of page 716 of our issue dated July 7th consists of bodywork of their manufacture upon a Thornyeroft chassis..

Orders for the new T.S. Motors sixcylinder eoach chassis have been placed by the Southdown Motor Services, Ltd. ; Westeliff-on-Sea Motor Services, Ltd. Holmes and Smith, Ltd.; Eastern Counties Road Car Co., Ltd. ; the West Yorkshire Road Car Co., Ltd. ; Alexandra Motor Coaches ; and Messrs. Ardley There are now about 4,000 bus companies in janan, operating some 15,000 vehicles, which consist mainly of light lorry chassis carrying locally built bodies,

The transport committee of Colchester Corporation is to report as to suggested new routes and the number of additional buses . that will be required.

The Minerva Motor Co., of .Antwerp, is reported lately to have secured a licence from the Citroen Co., of Paris, to construct chain-track vehicles of the Citroen-Kegresse type, in Belgium.

During the financial year 1930-1931 the number of commercial vehicles in use • in Prance was 410,616, of which 294,621 were said to be less than nine years old. A year earlier the total was 865,021.

The Turin tramways undertaking has purchased from T.S. Motors, Ltd., the petrol-electric bus and trolley-bus which was exhibited at the Scottish Show last year and which attracted so much attention, Devon County Council has adopted the proposal for the acquisition of the Shaldon toll bridge, on the understanding that the tolls shall be retained for seven years to enable the council to recover the cost of purchase.


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