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Stockport Corporation proposes to substitute buses for the trams on the Cheadle Green route.
The Leipzig Engineering, Teehnierl, and Building Fair will be held from March 1stalth, 1931.
It is said that all the open-top motorbuses in London will, by February next, be replaced by double-saloon vehicles.
Hull City Council has decided not to proceed with its Parliamentary Bill for the running of trolley-buses.
Mr. Massie-Blomfield, M.A., T.D., has been appointed to take charge of a new Jamaica branch office of H.M. Trade Commissioner's Office in the British West Indies, Tangyes, Ltd., Cornwall Works, Birmingham, has issued a booklet which gives details of its many products, these including hydraulic jacks, lifting tackle, vehicle lifts, pumps and oil and gas engines.
Details of the single-arm and doublearm windscreen wipers marketed by Klaxon. Ltd., 36, Blanclforcl Street, London, W.1, are referred to in a folder recently issued by the company. The prices are 30s. and 37s. 6d. respectively.
William Clark (Snare Parts), Ltd-, 11a, Great Dover Street, London, S.E.1, has just issued a new electrical parts list, as well as a general list which deals with spare parts for a large number of American commercial vehicles.
Six Guy Invincible double-saloon. buses have recently been supplied to Derby Corporation (two were illustrated in our issue for last week), and we learn that the bodies of these vehicles were constructed in the Loughborough works of the Brush Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd. Kent County Council is now to proceed with the construction of the Ashford by-pass, at a cost of £94,000.
The tramways committee of Belfast Corporation has asked the manager to experiment with a rabtorbus using heavy oil as fuel.
The Automobile Association of Southern India has decided not to admit as members public-service-vehicle owners.
Worcester County Council is taking steps to restrict the use of Jubilee Bridge, at Fledbury, to vehicles not exceeding two tons.
The general purposes committee of Lowestoft Corporation has decided for the present not to enforce the provision of fare meters on taxicabs
The town clerk of Watford has been instructed to prosecute, on the necessary evidence being forthcoming, in all cases of unlicensed bus operation.
Swanscombe Urban District Council has granted licences to Green Line Graches, Ltd., in connection with a new service between Gravesend and London.
The highways committee of Wandsworth Borough Council has now prepared a scheme for the construction of a by-pass, at High Street, at a cost of £42,684.
In Northampton 64 street accidents' occurred during the quarter ended September 30th, 1930, resulting in two deaths, as compared with 87 accidents and three deaths in the corresponding quarter last year.
The highways committee of Kent County Council recommends freeing the toll bridges at Small HYthe, at a cost of 0,990, and at Stone Ferry, at a cost of £1,165. These bridges are both in the Tenterden rural area.
In connection with the road test of the Albion 5-ton chassis, which was published in our issue dated November 110, we would point out that the chassis prices of 5-ton Albions are as follow:Short-wheelbase forward-control model, £905; normal-control Chasas .(the type which we road-tested), /920.
Licensing Conditions to be Waived?
Certain of the conditions attaching to the licences granted to the Yorkshire Traction Co., Ltd., West Yorkshire Road Car Co., Ltd., and Yorkshire (Woollen District) Electric Tramways Co., Ltd., to operate between Harrogate and London and Bradford and Birmingham, via Wakefield, are recommended by the watch committee of Wakefield Corporation to be waived, with the exception that passengers should not be picked up in the city for any stage within a radius of 20 miles.