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The Ministry of Transport have approved Sheffield's £120,000 road-improvement plans. Work may be completed within a year.
The 1456 dinner-dance of the Ballast, Sand and Allied Trades Association will be held at Grosvenor House, London, W.1,
on April 19.
"Timbers of South East Asia " is the latest publication of the Timber Development Association, 21 College Hill, London, E.C.4. Forty timbers are described.
On July 13, members of the London Centre of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers will visit the Fighting Veh.cles Research and Development Establishment, Chertsey.
The Hungarian Mann 55 rear-engined long-distance coach is now in quantity production. Nine prototypes have been tested over the past year. It is expected that 100 vehicles will be made by the end of this year.
Application to run a feeder service between Margate railway station and the Norfolk Hotel has been made to the South-Eastern Licensing Authority by Butlins, Ltd. It is not proposed to charge separate fares.
The fourth Factory Equipment Exhibition is to be held at Earls Court, London, from April 9-14 next year.
The retail price of Snowflake anti-freeze is to be reduced for the coming winter from £2 19s. 6d. to £2 18s. a gallon.
Laws are being prepared in Ceylon to enable divisional road transport officers to impose on-the-spot fines for offences committed by bus operators.
Accepted as an eliminating round for the " Driver of the Year " competition, a road-safety rally for lorry drivers will be held at Slough on September 18.
Although during the first quarter of this year commercial users continued to use mainly standard grades of petrol, they consumed 73,064 tons of premier spirit, against 68,170 tons in the corresponding period of 1954.
As Isaac Croft and Sons, Ltd., Yeadon, were not nationalized until April, 1950, the business never came under the control of Mr. J. S. Hutchinson, of the Holdsworth and Hanson group and one-time group manager of British Road Services, contrary to the report in The Commercial Motor of June 17. United Dominions Trust, Ltd., have moved theii Dundee office from -I Bank Street to 2 Union Street. Today they are opening a new branch at 53-55 North Street, Romford, Essex.
A new retirement-benefit scheme for hourly paid employees of F. Perkins, Ltd., begins today. All costs will be paid by the company, the benefits being secured by endowment assurances on the lives of the members.
An arbitrator has rejected Scarborough Corporation's proposal that the bus service to Eastfield should be included in the agreement with United Automobile Services, Ltd., under which the corporation receive financial benefit.
New premises to serve commercialvehicle operators will be opened by the S.M.T. Sales and Service Co., Ltd., at Finnieston, Glasgow, on July II. The Duke of Hamilton will perform the opening ceremony.
A factory for the production of automotive trattsmissions, semi-automatic overdrives and other vehicle components is to be built at Letchworth by Borg-Warner, Ltd. It represents the first phase in the company's expansion programme.
An order worth nearly £40,000 for 31 Fordson Major oil-engined tractors and implements and 15 Thames oilers has been placed by Mr. F. Arden, who farms about 8,000 acres in Notts, Lines and Yorks. Peterborough Motors, Ltd., will supply the vehicles.