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On Tuesday the capital of United Dominions Trust, Ltd., was increased from Elm. to E5m.
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The Institution of Engineering Designers have established headquarters at 38 Poi tland Place, London, W,1.
James Neale and Sons, Ltd., have opened a new depot at West Mill, Harmer Street, Kirkstall Road, Leeds.
The National Employers' Association of Vehicle Builders will hold their conference next year at Llandudno from May 14-21.
In 1953, 950 drivers and 808 conductors of Maidstone and District Motor Services, Ltd., and their subsidiaries won safedriving and merit awards.
The 1955 conference of the Public Transport Association will be held at Bournemouth on May 3-5, with headquarters at the Burlington Hotel.
A booklet which explains the uses of Vietum plastic sleeving for covering rods and tubes has been published by Lacrinoid Products, Ltd., Gidea Park, Essex.
Internal transport charges for Hull Corporation's school-meal service are to be increased from 6s. 6d. an hour to 7s. 6d., or if a mate is employed, from 9s. to us.
Dawe Instruments, . Ltd., 99 Uxbridge Road, London, W.5, have published a booklet which describes industrial applications of their ultrasonic and stroboscopic
instruments.
Lighting-up time on and from Sunday will be from half-an-hour after sunset to half-an-hour before sunrise, instead of from one hour after sunset to one hour before sunrise, as at present.
The British Road Federation have issued a leaflet, "Roads and You," to commercial-vehicle operators throughout the country, urging them to support the campaign for better roads.
Fork trucks will be on show at the 1955 National Factory Equipment Exhibition at Earls Court from March 28-April 2.
Twenty coach, lorry and car drivers were fined a total of £85 for speeding, by Kirkham magistrates last week. This followed an earlier warning by the bench (The Commercial Motor, September 10).
STAFF PROSECUTION WORRY
THE increasing number of prosecutions of drivers and conductors for • alleged traffic offences is disturbing Bradford Transport Department. In the year ended March, 1954, there were 28 prosecutions, yet 479 drivers and 359 conductors gained safe-driving and merit awards.
There were 931 accidents involving trolleybuses and 735 concerning motor buses. Of the total, 628 involved passengers boarding or alighting. There was one accident for every 5,870 miles ruin by trolleybuses and one for every 8,587 covered by motorbuses.
RING SERVICE TO END?
A T present losing £125 a week, the
inner-ring bus service in Belfast is proposed to be withdrawn. It was introduced on June I for an experimental period of six months.