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Easington Rural Council is seeking sanction to build a bus station at a cost of £2,500.
The Cheshire Engineering Co., Ltd., have opened new offices at 19 Berkeley Street, London, W.1.
Over El m. has so far been spent on the central bus station which is being constructed in Dublin.
It is reported that Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., plan to build a new garage near Burnley cattle market.
Lancashire County Council are to pay Accrington Transport Department a sum of £1 10s. per blind resident per annum.
A booklet setting out the aims of The Electric Vehicle Association of Great Britain, Ltd., is available fron:t 2 Savoy Hill, London, W.C.2.
The Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Co., Ltd., are to use the projection welding process patented by G. Beaton and Son, Ltd., in the manufacture of hinges.
Sanction has been given Sunderland Transport Department to replace trams on the Union Street-Seabum Terrace service with motorbuses on November 2.
The address of the Newcastle area sales office of the Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd., will be Groat House, Collingswood Street, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1, on August 24.
Darlington Corporation, have approached the Ministry Of Health to find whether free travel-for disabled persons can be permitted under the National Assistance Act, 1948.
A Fielding and Platt 250-ton hydraulic press has been delivered to Charles Hope, Ltd., Brisbane, for producing stampings for the bodybuilding industry in Australia.
A tour of the works of the Eagle Engineering Co., Ltd., will be made by menibers of the Midland Centre of the Institute of Public Cleansing during their autumn meeting at Warwick on October 2, F. J. Edwards, Ltd., 359-361 Euston Road, London, N.W.1, have formed a Canadian company, F. J. Edwards (Canada), Ltd, Offices and showrooms are at 16 Watsons Drive, Etobicoke, Toronto, 18.
"NEW LOOK" BUS ORDERS
ROTHERHAM has ordered 10 double-decker bus chassis from Transport Vehicles (Daimler), Ltd. They will be of the latest CVG type and will incorporate the "new look" frontend structure, similar to those which have been already supplied to many municipal operators in Britain.
An order has also been placed by the Kowloon Bus Co., Hong Kong, for 20 lightweight versions of the chassis.
NEW SAFETY INVENTION
AKERBSIDE reflector for use in addition to existing " cat's-eye " reflectors in the centre of the road has been invented by Mr. G. A. Broadhurst, assistant surveyor to Rutland County Council. A simple wiper mechanism, operated by vehicles passing over a stud at the side of the road, keeps the reflector clean.