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Acquired: The motor coach touts section of the Plymouth Co-operative Society, and a number of the society's coaches, have been acquired by the Embankment Motor Coach Company, Plymouth.
Ireland Forsakes Green: Double-deckers of Coras Impair Eireann are in future to be painted in dark blue, cream and white. An experimental group in this livery has recently been in use on Dublin services.
Annual Dinner: There was a capacity attendance at the annual dinner of the Wigan and District Excursion and Tour Operators' Association. Praise for the work of the organization in sponsoring the National Coach Rally at Blackpool was expressed by Mr. J. F. Speed.
Cardiff Terminal: With their bulk fuel supplies now being handled in Lincolnshire at Keadby and Immingham, Jet Petroleum, Ltd., plan to spend about £500,000 on building a terminal at Cardiff Docks and setting up between 200 and 300 filling stations throughout Wales, Gloucestershire and Somerset.
Extended Service Factory: A £170.000 extension has been convicted at the Leyland service factory, Chorley. where 60,000 sq. ft. of floor space has been added, bringing the total covered area to about 140,000 sq. ft. Each of the five new storage bays is 225 tt. long and 42 ft. wide, and there is a dispatch bay 210 ft. long and 60 ft. wide.