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New Ferodo Plant: Ferodo, Ltd:, are to , build a new factory in Caernarvonshire.
Hyde Bus Station: A new £12.000 bus station was, opened at Hyde, Cheshire, last
week. .
Ford Sales. Office: The Ford Motor Co.. Ltd.. have set tip -new offices at 135-147 Cheapside,. London, E.C.2, for domestic sales.
New Depot:The Eastern National Omnibus CO., Ltd.: are to have a new depot built at Chertydown. Basildon, .Essex, 'at an.esti
mated cost of £70,000. •
B.S.A. Leave Hobbs: The Birmingham Small Arms Co., Ltd„ have sold to the minority. shareholders their 51 per cent. holding.iu Hobbs Transmission, Ltd.
A.E.C. Office.: A sales office has been opened by the export division of A.E.C. (Sales).Ltd.; at their south eastern region depot at 50 Page Street. London, S.W.1.
Factory for 350: The British Piston Ring Co., Coventry; are to build a new foundry and machine shop in Lindley, Glos, within the next two years. Up to 350 people will be employed.
Much in Little: Complete volumes of Tire Commercial Motor from 1958 onwards have been photographed on microfilm and can be obtained from University Microfilms. Ltd,. 44 Great Queen Street, London, W.C.2, at £9 13s. each.
Atlanteans Next? Nottingham Transport Department, which switched to Leylands for their last fleet replacement programme, have been testing a Leyland Atlantean for the first time. It has been tried on housing estate routes.
New Lucas Agents: Agencies have been granted by Joseph Lucas, Ltd., to C. F. Parkinson, Ltd., who have opened a new branch at 5 Castlegate, Newark, and Burchnell's (Peterborough), Ltd., Eton Street,Grantham.
Simms Capita( IncreaserSimms Motor and Electronics Corporation, Ltd.,. are to issue 1,737,224 5s, ordinary shares at 10s: each. Extra capital is needed partly for the acquisition of .11awe Instruments, Ltd., and L:M.K.
Manufacturing Co.,.Ltd. . •
Four New Offices: Four . new branches of Forward Trust, Ltd., have been opened. They are. at .1solidland .Bank Chambers, 139 North End, Croydon; Cornwallis House, Pudding Lane, Maidstone ;. =29 High Street, St. Albans, and 44-46 Windsor -Road.
Slough. . • : .
Croydon Depot Visit: Some 50 members of the south eastern section of the Institution of Municipal Engineers,.,-have visited Croydon Corporation's new 030,000 maintenance depot, at Factory-Lane, which will undertake the repair and .maimenance of about
350 vehicles. •
ApprovalDespite Pleat Plans for a new bus station, which will cost about £52.500. were approved last Week by Ilkeston Borough Council, This was despite a plea for the project to be shouldered by the three companies serving the town—Barton Transport. Ltd.. Trent Motor Traction Co.. Ltd., and the Midland General Omnibus CO.. Ltd.
. INDIAN VISITORS AT KEW -. QIX-. top 'transport officials' from India
■ -) are Spending three months in this Cotintry theihvitatiOn of Chrysler Inter. national S.A. and Premier Motors of Bombay, distributors of Chrysler products in India. The ViSitors. Who have been based at the Kew factory of Chrysler Motors, Ltd., and Dodge Bros. (Britain), Ltd., return to India at the end of the month.