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Taxi fares at Aberdeen will shortly be increased to 2s. 6d. for the first mile.
Wolverhampton Corporation transport department has been granted permission to increase fares on local services.
Jenson and Nicholson. Ltd., 36, St. James's Street, London, W.1, has published a new edition of "The Enemies of "1int ber."
The price of the Spurling van body for the Bedford 30-cwt, chassis, described in The Commercial Motor" for June 9, is £672 17s. 2d.
The Reading and district office of The British Wagon Co., Ltd., at present at Ia. Duke Street, will shortly be removed to 10, Queen Victoria Street, Reading.
' A booklet entitled "Castings in Nickel-aluminium Bronze" can be obtained from the Mond Nickel Co., Ltd., Sunderland House, Curzon Street, London, W.1.
Early in July; Romac Industries, Ltd., will open a new depot at 251-3-5, Deansgate. Manchester, where a floor space of 5,000 sq. ft. will be devoted to Romac accessories.
Scarborough Watch Committee has refused to alter coach-parking arrangements until a satisfactory plan is introduced. At present coaches must park half a mile from the front.
Harold Andrews Grinding Co., Ltd., Bristol Road, Birmingham, has announced the termination of the arrangement by which Specialloid, Ltd., handled Hagco cylinder liners, etc., for the home replacement market and for export.
The registered office and London depot of A. Packham and Co., Ltd., is now 60, Highbury Grove, London, N.5, The company has acquired Griffin Bros. (Highbury), Ltd., also a haulage concern, which will also be operated from the same address.
Now being produced by W. E. Bray and Co., Ltd., St. John's Road, Isleworth. Middx, is an angledozer for fitting to the Fordson tractor, It is operated by the 'hydraulic power lift of the tractor and costs £75. The new product is called the Braydozer.
UNCOLLECTED FARES PROBLEM
FCARE dodging was costing Newcastle ARE transport department hundreds of pounds, it was stated at a meeting of the city council recently. Ald. R. Mould-Graham, chairman of the transport committee, did not think conditions were as bad in Newcastle as in the south. Honesty boxes for uncollected fares brought in about £30 a week, he estimated, The introduction of wider buses and automatic ticket-issuing machines would reduce the number of uncollected fares, be said.