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Motorbuses are to replace trams on the Grangetown route in Sunderland on December 1.
The address of Avon Coaches, Ltd., is Netheravon, Wilts—not Ludgershall, as reported last week.
Shell-Mex and B.P., Ltd., has ordered 310 Leyland Comet-Scammell
tractors for 2,000-gallon tankers. • Sunderland Transport Committee has decided to change the colours of its buses from scarlet and _cream to green and cream.
A delivery van with a threecylindered oil engine has run for 90,000 miles with negligible wear by St. Cuth bert Co-operative Association.
The Municipal Passenger Transport Association (Northern Area) has decided that operators should refuse extra payment for early-morning duties. The price of petrol _fell by Id. per gallon and of oil fuel by ci. per gallon last week, because of a reduction in shipping charges.
During the 1952-53 session the North Western Centre of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers is to hold meetings in Preston, in addition to those already arranged for the main programme.
Thirty-three members of the East Midland Area of the Passenger Vehicle Operators' Association visited Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., Luton, last week. It was the area's first works visit and another is planned for December.
The Road Haulage Association's Southern• Area will hold its annual dinner-dance at the Polygon Hotel, Southampton, on November 14; Oxford sub-area's dinner will take place at the George Restaurant, Oxford, on December 12.