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The highways committee of Eastbourne Corporation is inviting tenders for the hire of lerries for a year.
The Great Western Railway Co. will probably establish a bus park on land at the rear of Gerston Road, Paignton.
The annual Italian International Motor Exhibition, to be held in Milan from April 12-27 next, will include a commercial-vehicle section.
The Pontardulais bridge, on the Swansea-Carmarthen road (A75), which was closed in July last, to all heavy traffic, has now been re-opened.
Southport Watch Committee has undertaken to give favourable consideration to an application by Mr. W. Life for permission to ply for hire with three-wheeled taxicabs.
Hereford Corporation has obtained sanction to borrow 14,000 in connection with the construction of a bus station on the prison site.
Chester-Is-Street Urban District Council is seeking approval for a scheme for building a new bus station to cost 1,000 and for the -purchase of a fireengine to cost £1,000.
Mr. J. Lewins, head of the well-known northern haulage firm of Messrs. Lewins, ICnom and Prior, of Sunderland and tirtley, was killed at Springwell (Co. Durham); when he fell down a quarry.
The General Vehicle Co. Ltd. Palsenham Street, London, W.b'
.1, has received a third repeat order from the Express Dairy Co., Ltd., for a G.V. 10-cwt. electric, the fifth vehicle of this type it has purchased since April.