COACHES WANTED IN EGYPT.
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The Ramleh Electric Railway. Administration is calliag for tenders, which have to be presented in Egypt by December 16, 1935, for the supply of a number of 25-seater oil-engined motor coaches. Those concerns in a position to supply products of United Kingdom Manufacture may obtain • further details from the Department of Over-. seas Trade, 35, Old Queen Street, London; S.W.1,reference TY5465 being quoted.
The Problem .of Road Casualties. .
The Assistant Commissioner of Police, New Scotland Yard, is giving a lecture, on Noiseinher 22, on "The Problem of Road Casualties," at the Royal Society of Arts, :under the auspices of the Institation of Pro
fessional Servants.
Freedom for Public-works Hauliers..
When an applicant carrying on 'lai140;r • for public authorities was cloisely qUestioned 'by raibkay 'counsel be fore -Si r • Wi Iliam Hart , North-Western Deputy Licensing_Anthprity, regarding his limits of operation, Sir William Jlem,trkei..1 that he did' not want, in the ass Of. publie Weirk,..to hamper a
fjan.ier. • . ; 'Lancashire 'Rally. "
1-ine annual pre-Christmas re-union, known as a Lancashire hot-pot supper and social, is to be held under the auspices of the Commercial Motor Usirs Association, at the Manchester Limited Restaurant, Manchester, at 7.30 p.m: On December 11. Applications for tickets at 3s. 6d. each should he made to Mr. H. H. Lapsley, secretary, C.M.U.A., 28, Queen Street, Manchester.
Shipping Guide for Hauliers.
The following is the number of ships arriving at the Landon docks, wharves and jetties 'named, from November 15-23 inclusive:—Docks: King George V, 7; Royal Albert, 10; Royal Victoria, 5; Surrey Commercial, 6; East India, 1; West India, 1; South-West India, 2; Tilbury, 12; Tilbury Stage, 2; Millwall, 5; London, 1. Wharves: Hays, 6; Middleton's, 1. Regent's Canal, 1. Tilbury Jetty, 1,
The L.N.E.R. Places Big Contracts.
The London and North-Eastern Railway Co. has recently placed an order with Cranes (Dereham), Ltd., of Dereharn, for 118 trailers of different types, ranging in capacity from 3 tons to 10 tons. The largest order is for 40 3-ton low-loading, trailers. The company has also placed an order with Scarnmeil Lorries, Ltd., 5254, High Holborn, London, W.C.1, for 30 mechanical-horse tractors, 96 sets of 3-ton trailer-coupling gear and 22 sets of 6-ton trailer-coupling gear, as well as for six 6-ton trailers, certain of them with fiat platform bodies.
Another order given out by the company is for 28 low-loading fixed-sided trailers, which are to be supplied by R. A. Dyson and Co., Ltd., 76-80, lrafton Street, Liverpool.