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Pirelli, Ltd., has opened a new tyre depot at 118, New Bridge Street, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
We are advised that M.R.S., Ltd., of Liverpool, has purchased the business and vehicles of the Berkeley Transport Co., of Birmingham. • Manufacturers requiring hubs and axles for trailer manufacture should apply to the Skefko Hall Bearing Co., Ltd., Luton, Beds., for its catalogue of these fittings.
At the request of the London County Council, Wandsworth Borough Council is preparing plans for the constructions of a by-pass road to relieve the traffic at the junction of York Road, High Street and Garrett Lane including a bridge over the River Wm.:die.
• Stoke-on-Trent Corporation is to convert an old factory into a motor park, at Stafford Stzet, Longton.
The D,P. Battery Co., Ltd., of Bakewell, has issued a pocket-size instruction booklet for Kathanode batteries.
The tramways committee of .Siviudon Corporation is to erect passenger-transport offices in Corporation Street.
• In the month of July, 27 motor hackneys and 91 goods vehicles were registered for the first time in Northern Ireland. *
As from October next, all owner S of public-service vehicles in Paris must take out a third-party insurance policy in respect of each vehicle, for a minimum sum of about £1,600. The streets committee of Glasgow Corporation has approved a scheme for the construction of an arterial road at it cost of £150,000.
lilt is stated that on the completion of the summer season passenger-train services will be withdrawn from as many as 26 stations on the London and North Eastern Railway system. in Yorkshire and Northumberland. 'Motorbuses are replacing the trains over the various routes which ar:i affected.
Ransome and Marles Bearing Co., Ltd., has just issued a new catalogue dealing with ball and roller bearings for line-shafting, etc. These bearings are, of course, not applicable to motor vehicles, but they are used extensively on the plant producing the various components embodied in them.