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Expanding: Northern General Transport Co. Ltd. Gateshead, are plann:ng to build a £60,600 bus station on a site at Alderson Street, South Shields, Co. Durham.
Edinburgh Corporation are considering the erection of traffic meters along the centre of George Street and around the inner kerb of Charlotte and St. Andrew's Squares.
120,305 miles of driving with only one road accident was the record of drivers of Post Office Engineering Department in the Rotherham and Worksop area last year.
More Lolines: Middlesbrough Transport Committee, which recently decided to order 10 Dennis Loline double-deck buses, has decided to place a provisional order for a further 10.
500th: The M. and D. and East Kent Bus Club, which caters for the interests of road passenger transport students and enthusiasts in Kent and East Sussex, has just enrolled its 500th member.
Further stage in the scheme to provide dual carriageways for the full 83 miles of the Glasgow-Carlisle trunk road (A74) has been authorized by Mr. John Maclay, Secretary of State for Scotland.
The possibility of establishing a North Midland Counties Lorry Driver of the Year competition in 1961 is under review by the Leicestershire Area Committee of the Traders' Road Transport Association.
Good Pull Up: The old Aero Cafe and filling station at Wittering, Northants, on the Great North Road, is to be demolished by the Regent Oil Co., Ltd.; Birmingham, and a new filling station and cafe will be erected on the site.
Abandoned section of railway line between Dowlais Top and Beaufort on the Welsh border is to be made into a road and will be incorporated in the line of the Heads of the Valleys Road, which is now being modernized.
Tax-men Move: The Motor Taxation Department of the Lancashire County Council has moved from the County Hall, Preston, to Stanley Street, Preston, about one mile from the previous premises and near to the town centre.
Principal speakers at a one-day conference which the Engineers' Guild are holding in London next Montt will include Viscount Chandos, chairman of Associated Electrical Industries. The theme of the conference is "The Professional Engineer—his Employment and Development."
A.R.T. Co. To Issue Bank to Bank Rates
THE board of Associated Road Transports Contractors, Ltd., meeting under the chairmanship of Mr. M. W. Harris, decided that its new bank-to-bank rates schedule should be issued to members forthwith. This schedule is confined to traffics from one member's depot to another member's depot.
Before issue, it was necessary to re-examine the schedule in the light of the current adjustments in costs and this was done at the board meeting. The board also reviewed the existing collection and delivery rates schedule and decided that this required adjustment in the light of the necessity to increase rates, and a revised schedule is shortly to be issued to members.