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The approximate length of route-miles over which the L.C.C. tramcars operate is 165.
Messrs. A. Norman Annison, haulage contractors, of Hull, London, etc., are holding their first annual dinner next Saturday.
Kirkaldy has finally decided to abandon its old tramcars and introduce a more modern system of transport. Trolley-buses are favoured.
For the past municipal year the net profit on the buses of the West Bridgford authority, after meeting loan and interest charges of £3,244, was £1,800.
Arrangements have been made so that applicants for motor drivers' licences under the Road Traffic Act, 1930, can obtain the necessary form of application, D.L.1, at any money order office in Great Britain.
Official figures recently issued show that there were 100,462 motor vehicles in Czecho-Slovakia at the end of February last, as compared with 78,099 a year earlier. This year's figure includes 17,319 lorries, 4,269 tractors and 2,579 motorbuses.
B24 At the end of the year the United Automobile Services, Ltd., is to transfer its northern district headquarters from Blyth to Newcastle.
For the benefit of night workers and late travellers, Salford Corporation has decided to inaugurate for experimental purposes an all-night bus service.
The Penrith municipality has sanctioned a proposed service by International Express Services, Ltd., between Sheffield, Manchester and Glasgow.
Messrs. Davies Brothers, Conquest Road, Bedford, has received a further repeat order for Conquest tube stacks (54 in number) flir the radiators of the JJ-type vehicles which John I. Thornycroft and Co., Ltd., is supplying to the Great Western Railway Co.
Brown Brothers, Ltd., Great Eastern Street, London, E.C.2, is marketing 40-yd. rolls of strip emery in widths ranging from / in. to 3 ins. The -rolls are intended to displace emery sheets, which are so often uneconomical in use. Retail prices range from 5s. 8d. to" 208. per roll. Commer Cars, Ltd., Luton, is again working a 24-hour day, having recently restarted its night shift to cope with orders in hand for home and overseas users.
The Tees-side Rail-less Traction Board is carrying out experiments with the latest type Guy trolley-bus, which is said to be the first of its kind in the north.
. The appointment of Mr. J. Parndale, C.B.E., at present Chief Constable of Bradford, as Chairman of the Traffic Commissioners for the Yorkshire ares is announced.
It is stated that the action against Messrs. W. Griffiths and Sons for an injunction to restrain them from plying for hire within the borough of Swansea has been heard and judgment given for the corporation, with costs.
The transport committee of Glasgow Corporation has approved the suggestion that a bonus of 11 be granted to each driver and conductor attached to the depot or garage showing the lowest figure for accidents per 1,000 vehiclemiles over periods of 12 months.