Municipal Purchases and Proposals.
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STocwroN Corporation is inviting tenders for the supply of six doubledeck motorbuses.
GliIDDINOFOLD (Surrey) Parish Council is to purchase a motor fireengine at a cost of about £700.
GUILDFORD Watch Committee has asked a sub-committee to report as to the purchase of a police motor vehicle.
The tramways committee of the SOUtlIEND Corporation is seeking Powers to run trolley-buses on additional routes.
WEMBLEY Urban District Council is inviting tenders for the supply of a 1iton end-tipping motor lorry on solid tyres, the cost to be about C390. Tenders have to be delivered to the engineer and surveyor at the Council Offices, Wembley, by to-morrow, December 5th.
Rounding-off an Awkward Corner.
Many commercial-vehicle drivers whose daily work takes them through the south-western districts of London will be glad to learn that the awkward corner—it ranks with the Ministry of Transport as the third worst in London—at the junction of Grosvenor Road, Westminster, and Vauxhall Bridge, is to be rounded off. Those drivers who have been held up for vexatious periods, or who have narrowly averted collisions at this point, have Hovis, Ltd., to thank for the change which is being made. This company held from the Crown a lease which was not due to expire until 1943, and it looked as if the London County Council, which had for long contem
plated widening Grosvenor Road at this point, would have to wait for a period of 15 years before the scheme could be undertaken. The directors of Hovis, Ltd., have, however, volunteered to surrender the lease forthwith and their offer has been accepted.
Hull's Licence Refusals.
Hull Watch Committee has refused to grant the application of Mr. P. R. Whittaker, of Hull, for permission to run a motorbus service between Hull and Manchester, and the application of Mr. E. Pattinson, of Sunderland, for permission to run a service between South Shields, Sunderland, Middlesbrough and Hull.
Cardiff's Profitable Buses.
The operation of the Cardiff City Council's hue services in the twelve months ended March 31st last resulted in a total income of £141,757, representing 13.07d. per bus-mile. The expenditure amounted to 1124,069, equivalent to 11.44d. per bus-mile.
When loan charges of £3 5,857 have been deducted from the balance standing at the net revenue account, the income shows a surplus of £1,831 over expenditure. Out of the accumulated profits of the bus undertaking, £1.074 has been transferred for use in relief of rates.
We regret to learn that Mr. George G. Higgs, A.M.I.A.E., tuition manager to Stewart and Ardern, Ltd., died a few days ago after a long illness. Mr. Riggs was chief lecturer of the company's technical instruction and driving tuition department, of which he was in charge.'