In a Line or Two

11th November 1955, Page 118

11th November 1955

Page 118

Page 118, 11th November 1955 — In a Line or Two

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South Shields Transport Department celebrates its 50th anniversary next year.

Altogether 38,728 buses and 91,125 goods vehicles are in use in the various Indian States.

Hebble Motor Services, Ltd., Halifax, are seeking a chief engineer. The company have 86 buses.

Sunderland Corpora• tion are seeking permission to extend the use of one-manoperated buses

A new building with a floor area of 101,000 sq. ft. is to be erected at the _Maudslay factory at Great Alne.

A Canadian company has ordered RollsRoyce oil engines valued at £12,500 for heavy vehicles for timber haulage.

The party of Russian technicians at present touring this country visited the Daimler and A.E.C. works last Week.

Henschel, of Germany, have laid off 150 workers building goods vehicles. "Stiffening foreign competition," is quoted as the cause.

Seddon turn▪ over last year increased by more than 13 per cent. About half the output is going to 45 different overseas territories.

Lansing Bagn• all, Ltd., have equipped a train of seven railway coaches for a sixweek nation-wide demonstration tour of works trucks.

In the first nine months of the year France produced 125,000 commercial vehicles, compared with 145,000 in the corresponding period last year.

Rochdale Transport Committee are to ask the North Western Licensing Authority to certify their established fare concessions under the Travel Concessions Act, 1955.

Chester City Council are studying the possibility of obtaining a lower insurance quotation for their buses, as their present insurers have raised the premium " substantially."

Oxford City Council on Monday adopted the recommendation for two alternative traffic relief roads. The proposals will go to the Minister of Housing and Local Government as an amendment to the Oxford development plan.