BUS CHASSIS WANTED IN NEW ZEALAND.
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The Christchurch Tramway Board is calling for tenders, which have to be presented in New Zealand by November 1.6, 1935, for the supply of bus chassis. Further particulars may be obtained by those concerns in a position to offer United Kingdom products by applying to the Department of Overseas Trade, 35, Old Queen Street, London, S.W.1, reference TY 5,399 being quoted.
C.M.U.A. Potteries Campaign.
Branches of the Commercial Motor Users Association in the Five Towns of the Potteries (Burslem, Hanley, Longton, Newcastle and Stoke) are planned by Mr. S. Preece, organizer for the Manchester and Liverpool areas. An inaugural meeting, to which hauliers, ancillary users and others are invited, has been arranged to take place at the Albion Hotel, Hanley, on Monday, November 18, commencing at 7.30 p.m. It is stated that there is a considerable proportion of unorganized hauliers in the area concerned. .
London-Manchester Rates.
We have been asked by Mr. H. H. Lapsley, secretary, North-Western Division of the Commercial Motor Users Association, to point out that the £1 per ton rate mentioned in our reference to the London-Manchester rate-cutting inquiry, on page 280 of our issue for last week, was in respect of only one class of goods.
West Riding to Spend £.4716,000 on
Roads.
The Ministry of Transport has decided to allocate, for the financial year 1935-5, £409,610 for the maintenance and improvement of roads and the maintenance of bridges in the area of West Riding County Council. This contribution is in respect of a total estimated expenditure (excluding special works of £715,564.