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Bus Profit Expected: Sunderland Transport Committee expect a surplus of £56,801 in the current financial year.
Tunnel Progress: Work on the DartfordPurflect tunnel is up to schedule and should be completed by 1962.
10s. Licence: As from March 1, provisional driving licences will cost 1()s, and last for six months instead of three.
Wolverhampton Date: The annual dinner of the Wolverhampton area of the Traders' Road Transport Association will be held on February 14, in Dudley.
160,000 Outlay: Briggs Motor Bodies, Ltd., are to spend /60,000 on re-equipping their Doncaster works for the production of vans. In the past two years 50,000-Ford Popular cars have been made there.
Sean:melt in Pakistan: James Finlay and Co., Ltd., Karachi, Pakistan, have been appointed concessionnaires for' • Scamincn Scarab mechanical horses and semi-trailers in East and West Pakistan.
Revised FitnessRides: Next month the Minister of Transport will issue revised consolidated Conditions of Fitness. Regulation's which Will contain relaxations of the "rules for vehicles with not more than 12 scats, as proposed last May .
Trade-plate Anomaly: The Minister of Transport is looking into an anomalywhereby:cartransporter vehicles itsed bY motor dealers can be operated under trade plates; whereas those used under A or B licences require. the normal Excise licences.