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Traffic signals are to be installed at Hull, at a cost of £1,100.
Eastbourne Corporation is obtaining tenders for the erection of a coach station in Susan Road.
A garage for Doncaster's municipal buses and trolley vehicles is to be erected at Intake, at a cost of £30,000.
It is proposed to construct a new road from the Leeds City boundary to the Calverley and Horsforth new road, at a cost of £127,000.
During 1930 over 296 miles of allconcrete road were laid in Great Britain, this figure constituting a record for any one year.
Recent orders received by John I. Thornyeroft and Co., Ltd., include one from Sid Page, Ltd., of Gorleaton, for eight 20-seater bus chassis.
During 1930 the number of commercial motors imported into the Irish Free State was 1,295, valued at £210,632. In 1929 1,088 vehicles were imported, their value being £186,102:
The tramways committee of Hull Corporation has appointed a subcommittee further to negotiate with the East Yorkshire Motor Services, Ltd., for the acquisition of the company's Hull and Sutton bus service.
The attention of the Liverpool public health authority has been called to the nuisance caused by drivers of steam wagons emptying ashboxes in the bypass in Prescot Road, Knotty Ash, Liverpool, when taking water from the corporation's service boxes.
During the two months ended January 31st West Riding County Council issued 45;535 Road Fund licences, and the duty collected amounted to £415,264, which was an increase of £4,095 on the figure for the corresponding period of the previous financial year. At Colchester a number of sites for parking stations has been scheduled.
At the end of December last there were 30,305 motor vehicles in use in Hungary.
Warrington Corporation is applying to the traffic commissioner in its area for power to run buses to Stockton Heath.
It is stated that W. Alexander and Sons, Ltd., of Falkirk, has taken over the bus services of Messrs. Miller, of Buckle.
Southport Corporation has decided to substitute buses for trams on the Smedley route at the end of the financial year.
Last year the• -United States exported
30,143 solid tyres, valued at £192,115, as compared with 49,029 and ;6292,350 respectively in 1929.
Leicester traffic sub-committee is considering the provision of a new bus station on a site off Belgrave Gate ; it is 4,000 sq. yds. in extent.
Owing to the great demand for the company's tank bodies, W. P. Butterfield, Ltd., of Shipley, has had considerably to extend its works.
The Duke of Westminster has purchased a Morris-Commercial • vehicle through the Sutherland Transport and Trading Co., Ltd., Lairg, Sutherland.
A new Champion sparking plug known as No. 10, is now available to commercial users. • It is of rugged construction and is built to withstand hard service.
The proposal of the transport cora. mittee to convert the tram routes to trolley-bus working, at a cost . of £200,000, has been approved by Nottingham Corporation.
Following the abandonment. of its
trams, • Stockton , Corporation is arranging for the conversion of the tramway .sheds into an up-to-date bus garage at a cost of £8,889.
A few days ago we received a post-. card despatched from Kilburn asking on what routes in London certain buses are operating. If the inquirer will let us have his address we will reply thereto.
The Sheffield authority ha l refused licences to Messrs. Hall Bros., of Morneth, for a service between South Shields and Cardiff, via Sheffield, and to National Coachways, Ltd., of London, in respect of a service between London and Glasgow, via Sheffield.
Willys Overland Crossley, Ltd., Heaton Chapel, Stockport, has issued a brochure giving specification and other details of the Manchester commercial models for 30-35-cwt., 2-ton and 21-ton loads, illmtrations which are included showing many types of body mounted on the different chassis. s
Albion Dividends.
The directors of the Albion Motor Car Co., Ltd., recommend the payment, on April 30th next, of a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent per annum, less tax, on the preference shares for the half-year ended December 31st last, and a dividend of 71 per cent., less tax, on the ordinary shares, in respect of the profits for the year ended December 31st, 1930.
Vacuum Lamps for Motor Vehicles, Lissen, Ltd., of Lissenium Works, Isleworth, Middlesex, informs us that It is now manufacturing vacuum lamps for motor vehicles. The company has for some time past carried out research work on these lamps. They are sold at standard retail prices and are claimed to give long, dependable service, resisting the effects of vibration.
Widening the Bath Road.
The estimated cost of widening the section of the Bath Road in Wiltshire is 1360,000. The grant from the Road Fund will be £288,000 (80 per cent, of the total cost), leaving £72,000 to be found by the county council.
New Vehicle Registrations.
A return issued by the Ministry of Transport shows that the total number of motor vehicles registered for the first time under the Roads Act, 1920, during the month of January, 1931, was 22,860, the comparable figure for the previous *ear being 25,362. This year's total comprises 12,664 cars taxed on horse-power, 5,066 goods vehicles, 3,980 motorcycles, 579 hackney vehicles and 571 other vehicles, the corresponding figures for January, 1930, being 13,683, 5,292, 5,318, 533 and 536.