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Doncaster Transport Committee is considering fitting automatically conironed doors to new trolleybuses.
• An East Midlands branch of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers is to be established in Nottingham.
The Smithfield Show and Agricultural Machinery Exhibition will be held at Earls Court, London, from December 4-8.
British Railways claim a share of the beet traffic from the East Riding to Poppleton and Selby. In our June 50 issue, C. S. Dunbar said it went entirely by road.
• A new bus station for the East Kent Road Car Co., Ltd., at Deal, was opened recently by the South-Eastern Licensing Authority, Lt.-Col. F. Gordon Tucker. O.B.E.
Morris Motors machining branch at the Wolseley works, Birmingham, has now become the tractor and transmissions branch of Morris Motors, Ltd. Nuffield tractors are being made there. Road repairs and improvements in Co. Durham are in arrears to the extent of L5,000,000. . * a * Darlington Corporation is considering a report on which of the trolleybus routes in the town could be served by motorbuses.
Contrary• to expectations, the annual report for 1949 of the British Transport Commission is not likely to be published until September.
The highest proportions of vehicle prohibitions occurred in the. Northern and South Wales 'Areas—not in the West Midland Area, as stated in our June 39 issue.
Sunderland Corporation has applied to the Northern Licensing Authority for permission to run motorbuses through the centre of the town, to replace a tram service.
Lord Macintosh of Halifax was the principal speaker at a garden party given, last Saturday, for industrialsavings workers by Mr. John Oldham. 0.B.E., joint managing director of Oldham and Son, Ltd.