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Brief Items of News

7th October 1932, Page 110
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East Yorkshire Motor Services, Ltd., is to erect bus sheds at Piccadilly, York.

Northern Motor Utilities, Ltd., is to extend its premises at Foss Islands Road, York.

' The transport committee of Southport Corporation is to alter and improve the bus depot and adapt the repair shop for major bus repairs.

Homerton Rubber Works, Ltd., informs us that its North London depot has been transferred to more commodious premises at 120, Lower Clapton Road, E.5.

Northampton Corporation has sold land in Bridge Street and Cattle Market Road to Messrs. Hollingworth for the erection of a depot for tyre service and commercial-vehicle maintenance.

The extensive use of light alloys in internal-combustion engines is clearly emphasized in a publication which has recently been issued by the Mdnd Nickel Co., Ltd., Thames House, Millbank, London, S.W.1.

We learn that E. H. Loose (MotOr Engineers), Ltd., has been appointed an authorized dealer for Morris-Commercial vehicles, and that a repairs, sales and spares service is operating from its address at 562, Royal Mint Street, London, E.1. The Mansfield Di'striet Traction Co. is to extend its garage in Sutton Road, Mansfield.

The increase in petrol prices will•cost Sheffield Corporation's transport undertaking about an extra £16,140 a year.

The committee of the North Regional Area of the Road Haulage Association has arranged a meeting to be held at the Royal Hotel, Stockton-on-Tees, on Saturday, October 15, at 7 p.m.

A large bus-operating concern in Perth, Australia, has placed an order with Crossley Motors, Ltd., for a singledeck chassis equipped with the company's oil engine. The body is to be built in Perth.

The Ministry of Transport having indicated that it would prefer to consider applications in regard to one-way streets collectively, Chester Watch Committee has deferred the matter for the time being.

Through a misunderstanding the maximum frame section of the new Comraer GL3 3-tonner was given, in our article last week, as 6 ins. by 21 ins, by in. Actually it is 7i ins.

by 21 ins, by in.

R. M. Pap(iliau, Ltd., Edgware Road, London, N.W.2, advises 1.18 that it has designed a special set of helper springs for the new Fordson 2-ton vehicle, a brief des-criplion of which appeared in our issue dated September 2.