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Grimsby Corporation is to construct a subway at the Weelsby Road levelcrossing at a cost of £20,000.
Lowestoft borough engineer is to prepare a scheme for the provision of a bus station at Battery Green.
A new petrol and oil-distributing depot for West Wales is to be established at Llanelly by Russian Oil Products, Ltd.
For the summer season, Douglas (I.O.M.) Corporation is to hire two double-deck buses from the Associated Equipment Co., Ltd.
Douglas (I.O.M.) Corporation has fixed a rent of £150 per annum for the use by I.O.M. Road Services, Ltd., of the Lord Street bus station.
Wallasey Corporation is seeking sanction from the Traffic Commissioners to extend the running of buses to Saughall Massie, from April 1 next The highways committee of Littlehampton Urban District Council is to make temporary provision for a park for 40 coaches on the Thorncrost Estate.
The highways committee of Notts County Council recommends the provision of automatic traffic signals at Mansfield, Retford and Worksop, at a cost of £1,500, In connection with the trolley-bus service in the Fallings Park area, Wolverhampton Corporation is to provide an electricity sub-station at a cost of £2,250. The corporation's trolleybus system was dealt with in our issue dated February 10.
The staff of Short Brothers (Rochester and Bedford), Ltd., recently held its annual dinner in London. Approximately 100 members assembled at the Rochester Esplanade and journeyed by "Maidstone and District" luxury coaches to the London Palladium, being conveyed, after the entertainment, to the Strand Palace Hotel.
Cardiff Corporation's bus service on the Penarth Road, between Cardiff and Penarth, now pays £2,600 a year in tolls.
We are advised that the manufacturing rights of the well-known Vortex silencer have been acquired by the Laycock Engineering Co., Victoria Works, Millhouses, Sheffield.
The highways committee of Worcs. County Council has declined to agree to a proposal by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway Co. to lock, between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m., the main gates of the Dunhampstead-Oddingley level-crossing.
Oil Installations (1928), Ltd. Hammond Works, Victoria Road, London, N.W.10, has recently received an order for a Hammond low-pressure petrolmetering installation for the new Nottingham garage of the Trent Motor Traction Co., Ltd., as well as for two large installations for Messrs. E. Wells and Sons, haulage contractors, of Rotherhithe, London.