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3rd November 1931, Page 106
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East Ham Corporation is recommended to have Burges Road prohibited to solid-tyred vehicles weighing 7 tons or more.

-United Automobile Services, Ltd., has introduced a new parcels-delivery service in north-east England, a fleet of vans covering three routes.

We learn that a British Army MorrisCommercial six-wheeler with detachable tracks is being fitted out in Tientsin for an expedition to Sinkiang Province, Chinese Turkestan.

The Brush Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd., Falcon Works, Loughborough, has received an order for 50 34-seater bodies from the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd.

In an advertisement which appeared in our issue dated October 27th, the new A.E.C. Mammoth Major was inadvertently referred to as a 6-tonner. It is, of course, a 12-tonner.

The appeal by Erskine Motor Services (proprietor Mr. J. E. S. Balnaves), Dunblane, against a licence condition, has been withdrawn as a result of the acquisition of the service by W. Alexander and Sons, Ltd., Falkirk.

Derby Corporation's accounts for the year record a net loss of £739 on the bus services, as against a ns.t profit of £352 in the previous year.

The accounts of Sunderland Corporation for the past municipal year show that £2,000 was contributed to the rates from the tram and bus undertaking.

The Westinghouse Brake and Saxby Signal Co., Ltd., 82, York Road, London, Iti.1, has issued an informative catalogue dealing with Westinghouse vacuumservo braking.

The use of solid tyres on motor vehicles and trailers will'net be permitted in Italy after January 1st next. After that date no motor vehicle may haul more than one trailer.

The new bus station constructed in Parker Street by Manchester Corporation's transport department, to relieve traffic congestion in the centre of the city, was opened on October 25th.

THE THIRD SHOW NUMBER of The Commercid Motor will be . published three days earlier than usual and will be on sale all over the country on Saturday

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