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CAR parking in. the centre of Glasgow should be banned to avoid difficulties experienced by operators of, commercial vehicles. This suggestion was made by the chief of the traffic section of Glasgow police at an appeal inquiry last week when the Woolworth company objected to city council proposals that the store'-should provide parking space for 22 cats as part of their extension plans.
The council thought that stores should contribute towards solving the congestion problem by affording parking space, but Woolworth maintained that there was no precedent for this and that their type of customer did not use cars.
BUSES TO REPLACE TRAMS
AN application to operate buses to the Humber Bank industrial estate, when the Immingham light railway ceases operation, has been made by Grimsby Transport Department to the East Midland Licensing Authority. Bus services would start from several parts of Grimsby and run along the present route, saving factory workers from having to change buses.
STAFF TURNOVER ANXIETY
THE number of employees leaving Lincoln Transport Department is causing concern. Gilt L. H. Priestley, chairman of the transport committee, stated last week that 54 employees had already left this year and 36 of them had less than a year's service. It cost about £30 to train a conductor,
FACTORY EQUIPMENT SHOW
MANS for handling, storing and packing goods will be featured at the Factory Equipment Exhibition to be held at Earls Court, London, from April 9-14. Mr. Peter Thorneycroft, President of the Board of Trade, will open the Exhibition.
NEW LORRY NOT DANGEROUS
COMMENTING that the accident in which a vehicle was involved could happen to anyone, the chairman of Halesowen magistrates last week dismissed a summons against a driver for having a lorry in a daiagerous condition.
The prosecution alleged that the load on the lorry slipped, causing the front wheels to leave the ground. The defendant said that the cause was the fracture of the bolt head on the tipping gear. The lorry was new, having been registered for the first time in October of this year.
MAUDSLAY SPARES DEPOT
THE Maudslay spares store is now at the Maudslay factory, Alcester. Was-wicks. All inquiries should be addressed to A.C.V. Sales, Ltd., Spares Depot, Alcester, and not to Coventry as before, or preferably through A.C.V. depots and agents.