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The tramways committee of Rochdale Corporation has* decided to run motorbuses on another four tram routes.
Walsall Corporation has put into service a single-decked bus equipped with a Diesel engine for experimental work.
Llanelly Urban District Council is to consider the advisability of acquiring the local trams and converting them to railless traction.
The watch committee of Burton-onTrent Corporation is to install, at a cost_ of £1,550, automatic traffic signals at the junction of Union Street and Orchard Street.
Plymouth Corporation Watch Committee is to report as to the practicability of acquiring sufficient land to establish a definite terminal centre for all licensed motorbus services and for coaches Plying for hire entering or leaving the city.
The highways committee of the Berks County-Council is considering the following schemes :—Newbury 'by-pass (east to west), £30,000; Newbury by-pass (north .to south), £151,000; Hurst by-passi £3,245 ; Swallowfield by-pass, £10,870; and Hungerford by-pass, 132,500. During the six months ended June 30th imports into the United Kingdom of oil from the u.s.s.n, show an increase of 39.8 per cent.
It seems likely that the new tunnel under the Thames from Dartford to Purfleet will be commenced before Christmas. The carriageway will have a height sufficient for double-saloon buses.
The licensing committee of Dartford Urban District Council has granted licences to Maidstone and District Motor Services, Ltd., for two buses and to Orange Coaches (Chatham) for six vehicles.
The transport committee of Portsmouth Corporation recommends the purchase of the Greyhound racing track site at Copnor as a site in connection with a city depot for the stores and transport committee.
Messrs. Davies Brothers, 18, Alexandra Road, Bedford, makers of the Conquest radiator, have recently supplied tubestacks for 14 Thornyeroft A2type vehicles, also for Dennis and Karrier .fleets, ordered by the Southern Railway Co. The tramways committee of Bexley Urban District Council is to consider the advisability of replacing the trams by a more Modern method of transport.
The highways committee of Portrush Urban District Council is to discuss with bus companies the question of the provision of a central bus station.
The tramways committee of Burtonon-Trent Corporation has obtained sanction to borrow 13,755 for the conversion of the tramway depot into a bus garage and for the provision of equipment.
At a recent watch-committee meeting of Sheffield Corporation, Mr. E. W. Hatfield, the mechanical inspector reported. that the vehicles this season are very much improved, and as a consequence few had to be rejected or returned for adjustments.
Otley Urban District Council has referred an application of the Merseyside Touring Co., Ltd., in respect of a daily bus service between Liverpool and Newcastle, through Otley, to the Joint Motorbus Committee, with a recommendation that it should be granted, subject to the fixing; of an approved" route and time-table.