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ITEMS OF NEWS IN A FEW LINES

11th November 1930
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Lanes County Council is to construct a by-Pass at Kirkham, costing £99,000.

Nottingham Corporation is seeking powers to extend some of the bus services outside the borough.

The Cheltenham licensing authority has granted 18 additional coach licences to Black and White Motorways, Ltd.

Herts County Council is to construct a new road from Letchworth to the Great North Road, at a cost of £40,000.

The watch committee of Warrington Corporation has deferred consideration of the application from the National Express Services to operate between Liverpool and Nottingham.

The parliamentary committee of Lanes County Council reports that a Petition was presented against the Southport Corporation Bill. The corporation withdrew the clauses iri the Bill dealing with working and other agreements for buses. Gloucester City Council has approved in principle the provision of a motorbus centre for the city.

• W. T. Henley's Telegraph Works Co., Ltd., has declared an interim dividend of is, lid. per share (less tax) on the ordinary shares of the company.

Sandgate Station, near Folkestone, which was opened in 1874, will, it is said, be closed next March. The Southern Railway Co. has taken this step by reason of road competition.

The Villiers Engineering Co., Ltd., Marston Road, Wolverhampton, has recently issued some folders describing varipus types of its water-cooled and air-cooled engine for industrial uses.

Barimar, Ltd., has just issued a new booklet which deals comprehensively and convincingly with the scientific welding, of broken and worn motor-vehicle parts. A copy can be obtained from the company at Lamb's Conduit Street, London, WS! The Firestone Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd., has opened a new branch for trade sales at 30, Acre Lane, London, S.W.2.

Will any reader who has a copy of our issue dated June 4th, 1920, that is not required, please send it along to the Editor?

The new bus garage in Manchester Road, which has been built for Swindon Corporation, is now• in use. It has accommodation for 45 buses.

As satisfactory amendments of the St. Helens Corporation (Trolley Vehicles) Order have been arranged, the parliamentary committee of Lance County Council has taken no further action to oppose the Order.

J. Blake and Co., Ltd., Bold Street, Liverpool, advises us that a subsidiary company, which will operate from its spacious premises in Blackfriars Road, is being formed to acquire the whole of the company's commercial vehicle interests and car sales in Manchester and Salford.