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The highways committee of the Westminster City Council recommvntls that the Minister of Transport be requested ns to grant an Order to make regulations prohibiting plying for hire by buses in New Bond Street and Old Bond Street, London, W.1.
The importation during the past year Of 428,622 tons of foreign broken roadstone, including setts and kerbs, into this country is indicated in the return just issued by the National Federation of Granite and Roadstone Quarry
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' In order to provide central accommodation for vehicles employed on services radiating from the Haymarket bus stand, the transport department of the Newcastle Corporation is considering the advisability of converting the Haymarket tram depot into an up-to-date bus garage. Centralization is a matter which is receiving increasing attention everywhere.
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Are illustrated a front-entranes-type International bus on page 47 of our issue dated February 19th. This should have been described 'as a 24-seater, not a 14-seater.
Thewatch committee of the Morecambe Corporation recently granted permission to Wright Bros. (Burnley), Ltd., upon certain terms to inaugurate a daily bus service between Bacup, Colne and Morecambe.
With a view to equipping themselves for duties in the courts dealing with eases concerning motor vehicles, 15 Berlin judges and barristers bare commenced a special course of motor driving in the Police Traffic School.
Twenty bus licences have been granted to the Birmingham and Midland Omnibus Co., Ltd., by the Barmouth Urban District Council. The newly licensed vehicles will ply for hire on long-distance services to and from Birmingham and other places. The question of the provision of a central station, to be used primarily by long-distance coaches, is being considered by the watch committee of the Coventry Corporation.
In order to give drivers a better vision at night over dark country roads,‘ the London General Omnibus Co., Ltd., is experimenting with curtains for the forward bulkhead lights of its vehicles.
The watch committee of the Bournemouth Corporation has declined to grant further licences to Hants and Dorset Motor Services, Ltd., but has permitted the company to use during rush hours two buses licensed as reserve vehicles.
The hackney carriages committee of Darlington Corporation has granted licences to Mr. Fred Scott, of Darlington, in respect of a limited-stop service between Darlington and Blackpool, to be run during the summer months for the benefit of holidaymakers.