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Chester Corporation has obtained sanction to run a service of buses from the city> boundary to Rehouses.
Southwold Corporation has granted three licences to the Hillman Saloon Coach Co., of Stratford, for a Southwold-London service.
The Minister of Transport is, to-day, layiug the foundation stone of the premises erected by Hull Corporation for Shell Mex, Ltd., in New Street.
The Marquis of Bath, K.G., Longleat, Warminster, has purchased 'a Morris-Commercial 30-cwt. shooting lorry from the Warminster Motor Co., Ltd.
A sub-committee of the Hull municipality is to negotiate with the East Yorkshire Motor Services, Ltd., for the acquisition of its Hull-Sutton bus service.
Last year 29,658 annual and 110,836 quarterly motor licences were issued by Essex County Council, as compared with 29,530 annual and 96,167 quarterly licences in 1929. A contract has been placed for the erection of a municipal bus depot at Heaton Lane, Stockport, at a cost of 125,000. *
J. Brockhouse and Co., Ltd., informs us that £15 15s. is the trade _price and not the retail figure for the Gibson three-way tipping gear, described in our issue dated December 30th, 1930.
The Institution of Gas Engineers has appointed a special committee to inquire into the subject of street illumination, in view of the increasing number of street accidents which occur at night The police authorities of Calcutta have passed a Commer Avenger doubledeck bus for service in the district. The chassis is the largest in the area. The vehicle will be used fer Indian passengers and is registered as a 70-seater.
We learn that Alloy Welding Processes, Ltd., and the Premier Electric Welding Co., Ltd., have amalgamated, and a new company, known as Murex 'Welding Processes, Ltd., with headquarters at Ferry Lane Works, Walthamstow, London, E.17., has been formed.
The Devon General Omnibus and Touring Co., Ltd. has now placed a contract valued at in,oce for the erection of a bus depot at Newton Road,
Torquay. * Col. E. S. Sinnott, the surveyor of Gloucestershire, . estimates that, op the most conservative basis of calculation, the higher speeds now legally permitted for motor vehicles and increased traffic will throw an extra annual burden on the county of £38,715 for road maintenance.
At Kalgoorlie, which is one of the richest gold-mining areas in the world, the gold mines have their own ambulance, this being maintained by a voluntary welfare committee. The ambulance body is mounted on a Hillman Fourteen chassis, which, we are told, is giving every satisfaction.
Having previously used American lorries, the Public Works Department of the Government of Jamaica ordered, in June last, two Commer 3-ton lorries. These have put up such a good performance and the servicing arrangements have been so satisfactory that the Government has ordered a further three 3-ton chassis.