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Halifax Corporation is to have a bus depot erected at Elmwood.
Leicester Corporation is purchasing land between Garden Street and Abbey Street for the provision of a bus station.
It is reported that the importation of vans and lorries into Iceland is prohibited, except by a special Government penal t.
The reduction of the capital of McNamara and Co. (1921), Ltd.. from £260,000 to £160,008 was recently confirmed by Mr. Justice Eve.
Leeds Corporation has granted a licence to Motor Spirit Distributors (Northern), Ltd., to store 280,000 gallons , of petrol at premises in Yarn Street.
During the traffic census the tonnage per day of vehicles passing over Lancashire roads WAS 1,392,317, SS compared with 1,175,156 in 1928 and 841,298 in 1925,
The local association of coach proprietors at Morecambe is to apply to the Minister of Transport for an Order allocating stands on the promenade, during 1932.
A new sales record for the financial year just ended is announced by C. C. Wakefield and Co., Ltd., the all-British concern manufacturing lubricating oils. The sales of Castrol have been steadily increasing for the past 10 years. Tribute is paid to the benefits of Press advertising. Warrington Corporation has obtained sanetion for a bus service to Stockton Heath.
The transport committee of Stockton-on-Tees Corporation is to proceed with the erection of a bus garage.
The transport committee of Morecambe Corporation is to consider the provision of additional bus services.
Gainsborough Joint Bridge Committee has now decided to maintain the tolls on Gainsborough Bridge until March 31st, 1932.
From January 1st to August 31st Herts County Council.collected 1349,805 in respect of Road Fund licences, as compared with 1364,071 in-the corresponding period of 1930.
Will any reader who has an instruction book for a Bean New Era chassis, and wishes to dispose of it, communicate with Mr. George Boam' Chapel Works, Castleton, Derbyshire?
Tests with three systems of refuse collection are to be made at Bexhill. It appears that such a trial must be held before the Ministry of Health will consider applications for loans for the purchase of vehicles.
The annual general meeting of the governors andmembers of the Royal Agricultural Society of England will take place in the Club Room at the Royal Agricultural Hail, Islington, London, N., to-morrow (December 9th), at 2.30 p.m.