We describe two methods to combine sets of lines of different 2-dimensional projective planes into line sets of new 2-dimensional projective planes. Using these methods we describe several ways in which sets of circles of different 2-dimensional circle planes can be combined into circle sets of new 2-dimensional circle planes.

Among the eight-dimensional stable planes, the compact connected generalized Hughes planes and the geometries induced on the outer points are characterized by the property that these planes admit an effective action of the group SL3 ℂ.

In the theory of ordinary topological affine and projective planes it is known that (1) An affine plane is never compact (2) a locally compact ordered projective plane is compact and archimedean (3) a locally compact connected projective plane is compact and (4) a locally compact projective plane over a coordinate ring with bi-associative multiplication is compact. In this paper we re-examine these results within the theory of topological Hjelmslev Planes and observe that while (1) remains valid (2), (3) and (4) are false. At first glance these negative results seem to suggest we are working in too general a setting. However a closer examination reveals that the absence of compactness in our setting is a natural and expected feature which in no way precludes the possibility of obtaining significant results.