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C. C. Wakefield and Co., Ltd., propose to capitalize £1,251,250.
A Dutch manufacturer has received an order from Chile for 250 lorries to be delivered early next year.
The Pother Valley. Group of British Road Services, managed by Mr. W. E. Judge, is closing down.
Free parking for coaches is available in Sedburgh on a site in the centre of the town acquired by the council.
An expansion programme costing £A600,000 is to be undertaken by Standard Motor Production, Melbourne, Australia.
The Rover Co. Ltd., propose to increase their authorized capital by £1m. to £2,25m., and their issued capital from £1,175,314 to £2,056,800.
The Leamington factory of the Lockheed Hydraulic Brake Co., Ltd., is to be extended and another 1,000 employees are to be engaged.
Another Edinburgh tram route was converted to bus working last Sunday. Further trams Will be replaced by buses on November 13.
Bexhill Town Council have decided not to exercise their option to buy the Bexhill section of the trolleybus system of the Hastings Tramways Co.
The D'Arcy Exploration Co.; Ltd., has again struck oil at Plungar, Leicestershire. It is expected that the well will produce 1,250 gallons of crude oil a day.
Ninety per cent, of the drivers of the National Benzole Co., Ltd., who entered for the 1953 safety competition gained awards-5 per cent, more than in the previous year.
"Substantial educational benefits" were obtained by sending secondary-school pupils in school buses to the south of France this year, and London County Council's education committee propose to authorize similar journeys in future years. South Shields Transport Department proposes to operate two new services to housing estates.
Talks are proceeding about setting up a helicopter service between Chesterfield and Manchester.
The Institution of Production Engineers have opened new headquarters at 10 Chesterfield Street, London, W.1.
" Modern Streetlighting Practice" is the latest publication of the British ThomsonHouston Co., Ltd., Crown House, Aldwych, London, W.C.2.
Authority has been given by the Minister of Transport for work to start on road schemes representing commitments of £3,738,407.
The proposed Jarrow-Howdon Tyne tunnel has been placed next to the DartfordPurfleet tunnel on the Ministry of Transport's priority list.
A new factory to build Volkswagen commercial vehicles is to be erected near Hanover, West Germany, and production will begin next year.
United Automobile Services, Ltd., have taken over the Dauntless Bus Co., started about 30 years ago by Mr. W. C. Radley, of Eldon Lane, Co. Durham.
A map showing the roads leading to Manchester Airport will shortly be available, free of charge, from the Municipal Information Bureau, Town Hall, Manchester, 2.
The 1955 summer sneering of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers will be held in Southampton. It is proposed that the meeting should take place during the week beginning July 4.
On the understanding that other shareholders are offered the same price, the directors of the Coupe and Motorcab Co., of Great Britain, Ltd., have agreed to take 63, per share for their holdings–in the company from York Way Motors, Ltd.