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Eastbourne Watch Committee is to provide a motor park at Beachy Head.
Rawtenstall Corporation's garage at Longholme Meadow is to be enlarged.
Grantham Corporation is to proceed with the construction of a central bus station at a cost of £8,000.
Rochdale ratepayers have now polled in favour of the corporation's proposal to abandon the tramways.
The period of repayment on loans for the purchase of buses by Rawtenstall Corporation is to be reduced from eight to five years.
The highways committee of Oxford County Council has, consequent upon the need for economy, abandoned proposals for freeing Thames toll bridges.
On July 1st, 1931, there were 42,737 motor vehicles registered in Poland, the total including 6,512 goods vehicles, 6,105 hackney vehicles, and 3,752 motorbuses.
During 10 months of last year East Ham Corporation issued 16,374 Road Fund licences, as compared with 17,695 in the corresponding period of the previous year.
Scarborough Corporation has soh] 24 trams to Grahamsley's, Ltd., Gosfortb, Newcastle, for scrapping, the price being £470. The corporation is to run buses instead.
Mr. John Backwell, motor engineer, of the Abbey Garage, Tavistock, has been re-nominated by Tavistock Urban District Council to serve on the panel of Traffic Commissioners for the Western Area.
T. R. Parry and Co., Ltd., a concern of lubricating-oil specialists, advises us that it has been formed into a private limited company, and that, as a result of increasing trade, it has removed to new premises at Castor Street Works, London, E.14. . Manchester Corporation's Polygon depot is to be extended at a. coat of £5,500.
The London County Council ham established a new ambulance station at Mount Nod Road, Streatham.
Hereford Watch Committee is negotiating with regard to establishing a bus station on the site of the old gaol.
The highways committee of Portsmouth Corporation is to acquire land, near the Clarence Pier, for a parking station.
Bolton borough engineer has prepared plans for the provision of booking office and waiting-rooms at the Moor Lane parking ground.
As a result of increased business in the western area Englebert Tyres, Ltd., has removed to larger premises at Moon Street, Stokes Croft, Bristol.
The Ministry of Transport has made an Order, to be in force for a year, as an experiment, with regard to the use by heavy traffic of certain streets in -Fork.
No charge is to be made for the use of Ripen Corporation's motor park by public service and carriers' vehicles so long as they do not remain there longer than, is necessary to pick up and set down passengers.
On appeal, the assessment of the Chiswick premises of the London General Omnibus Co., Ltd., has been derated to 13,892 and £4,028 is being refunded to the company in respect of overpaid rates in the past 21 years.
J. G. Auto-Spares Co. advises us that it has absorbed the business of Messrs. Sherlow and Heading, and that the spare parts which it supplies, including those for Berliet vehicles, for which the company is the sole concessionnaire in the British Isles, will, in future, be dealt with from 109, Fulham Palace Road, London, W.6.