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Oldham Corporation are to reduce their bus fleet from 240 to 235. Sixty crews are needed.
The price of the Citroen 2cv 5-cwt. van and pick-up is now £415, plus £155 12s. 2d.
purchase tax.
Salford Welfare Committee arc considering converting a single-deck bus to carry wheel-chair invalids to clinics.
St. Helens Transport Department is seeking to replace trolleybuses by motorbuses on the Town Centre—Parr circular route.
The autumn meeting of the Midland centre of the Institute of Public Cleansing will he held at Loughborough College on October 28.
When drivers can be found, lorries will replace the 70 remaining horse-drawn vehicles employed by the railways in Birmingham.
Nottingham Corporation are to provide facilities at no extra charge for cleaning livestock vehicles parked overnight in the cattle market.
Last Wednesday London Transport inaugurated a service -to the top of Richmond Hill from Richmond Station, via Friars Stile Road, The Western National Omnibus Co., Ltd., have agreed to pay an increased charge of £275 a year for the use of Winchester coach station.
Altruck, Ltd.. 5225 Bern Street. Montreal, Canada, are assembling Hornalloy light-alloy bodies, the parts being shipped there from Liverpool.
Because of congestion, Nottingham buses took 20 minutes to travel a quarter of a mile from the city centre, Ald. C. Coffey told the city council last week.
The' managing director of a south of England independent coach company requires a personal assistant with full administrative experience of this class of business.
Riding qualities of six Leyland-M.C.W. lightweight buses of Southend Transport Department are reported to have been improved by the use of a new type of rear spring.
An exhibition of passenger vehicles is to be held by Duple Motor Bodies, Ltd., Edgware Road, London, N.W.9, from October 24-29 and will be opened by Mr. C. I. Orr-Ewing, M.P.
T. Unsworth and Sons (Wigan). Ltd., have applied to the North Western Licensing Authority to take over the excursions and tours orerated from Wigan and Pemberton by Messrs. R. Moodier! and Son.
"Operation Enterprise " is the title of a booklet published by the Turner Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Villiers Street, Wolverhampton, to describe a transAfrican journey made by a Land-Rover fitted with a Turner oil engine.
Drivers of heavy liquid-gas tankers in the Yorkshire district of the BritishOxygen Co., Ltd., averaged 89,481 miles per accident last year. The average for all Yorkshire vehicles was 44,488 miles, which compared favourably with the national average.