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Glasgow Corporation has passed the plans for the erection of a new bus depot at Anniesland.
Bournemouth Corporation has obtained sanction to run bua services in various rural areas around the borough.
Black and White Motorways, Ltd., has received permission from Cheltenham Corporation for the erection of a• coach station at St. Margaret's.
. A new regulation has been made by the Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis which, whilst permitting motorcoaches to carry electric horns, forbids their use in the London area.
The question of the construction of a new bridge across the Thames, at Teddington, has been referred by Middlesex County Council to a joint committee of Middlesex and Surrey County Councils for consideration.
Messrs. G. H. Grail and S. H. Joiner, trading as the Stratford-on-Avon Blue Bus Co., have purchased the business and eight buses of Mr. Frank Martin. Cheltenham Corporation has agreed to transfer the licences.
A scheme to organize a unified road ambulance service has been formulated by the county officer for the St. John Ambulance Brigade in Durham and Northumberland, and it is now receiving attention at the hands of the Ministry of Transport. • B44 Majestic Express Motors, Ltd., has been refused permission to extend its Manchester-London service to Bolton.
We are advised by Scintilla, Ltd., 14, Clerkenwell Close, London, E.C.1, that its automatic-advance magneto has been specified as standard equipment for the new Peerless Trader Six.
The watch committee of Eastbourne Corporation has refused to grant the application of Mr. E. Southern, on behalf of Southern Glideway Coaches, Ltd., for six additional licences. He already has 10 licences.
The Home Secretary states that the numbers of pedestrians killed in the Metropolitan area by motor vehicles mounting footways or verges, during the three quarters of this year, were four, six and five respectively.
Bolton Corporation has decided to utilize the land lying between Moor Lane and Blackhorse Street for the accommodation o,f buses, and to erect a
platform for use of passengers. A charge of 1-/rd. will be made each time a bus enters the station.
Oil Installations (1928), Ltd., has received a repeat order from Birmingham Corporation for a Hammond lowpressure metering system for its Perry Barr depot. The company has also received an order for a similar installation from the Yorkshire Traction Co., Barnsley. The address of the Dublin depot of Joseph Lucas, Ltd., is now Portland Street North, North Circular Road.
In order to provide additional capital for further developments, Southdown Motor Services, Ltd., has decided to issue 150,000 ordinary shares at par.
The London service depot of the Star Motor Co., Ltd., has been removed from 1-3, Brixton Road, S.W.9, to Porteus House, Porteus Road, Paddington, W.2.
Fred Fishwick and Co., Ltd., the well-known motor insurance concern, of Manchester, has recently purchased a fleet of six Austin saloons from Henlys. Ltd., of Manchester.
Cornmer Cars, Ltd., Luton, has received a third repeat order from the Cement Marketing Co., Ltd., this being for four 06 6-7-ton platform lorries and a G3 3-ton platform lorry.
The approval of the Board of Trade to the alteration in the title of the South Midland Touring and Transport Co., Ltd., to the South Midland Motor Services, Ltd., has been given.
Erected at a cost of over 12,000, a new social hall for G.W.R. road, rail and dock-service employees has been opened at Bethesda Street, Swansea. Sir William James Thomas, Bt., a director of the Great Western Railway Co., made the formal opening.