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The latest Keighley order is for two " Commer-Car " chassis and oue Leyland chassis.
The average receipts of the Todmorden motorbuses, during the month of February, were 12.29d. per mile.
One of the latest 20-seated Dennis char-h-bancs, with Cape hood, was delivered, shortly before Easter, to Mr. Brooke, of Pontefract. It is a eomfortably-upholstered vehicle, and has a 28 h.p. four-cylinder Dennis engine Mr. W. E. Bennett, Victoria Works, Belvedere Road, Lambeth, S.E., is acting as liquidator in the voluntary winding-up of the Amalgamated Motor Bus Co., Ltd. The undertaking is to be sold to the British Automobile Development Co., Ltd.
We are glad to learn that the London County Council has raised the age limit for the engagement of drivers who have had prior experience in the handling of vehicles upon London thoroughfares. Many old drivers of horse-omnibuses have thus been assured of new employment.
L.G.O.C. Stock.
Buyers are taking up the ordinary stock of the L.G.O.C.; there seems to be a pretty general opinion that it will touch 65 or 70 by October. The immediate future, of course, hinges largely upon the weather, but the shares are probably worth a lot more than the 35-40 at which they stood early in the week.
Overcrowding Underground.
Our second cartoon is the " Underground Series " appears on the next page. A few additional written comments on the present situation ar.. made on page 103. We desire to see the truth brought to light in Court. and we hope to get a good case of some kind, against one of the London tubes, before the end of this month.
Bristol F.I A.T. Motorbuses.
Judgment was given by Mr. Justice Lowrance, in the King's Bench Division, on Saturday, in the action brought by the Bristol Tramway/4 and Carriage Company, Limited, against the F.I.A.T. Motors, Limited. He awarded damages as follow :-£300 for delay in delivery of motorbuses, £5:CO for repairs and renewals, £1,100 for reconstruction, and £350 for the loss of earnings caused by breakdowns. Judgment would be for the plaintiffs for a total of £2,300 and costs. A stay was granted, with a view to an appeal.
A London Conference.
Arising out of a conference in Battersea, of borough-council delegates, to consider mud-splashing, vibration, etc., alleged to be caused by motor omnibuses, a committee appointed by the conference has met representatives of several Metropolitan omnibus companies. As a result, a mutual understanding has been reached in regard to the following points: (1) Weight. -The committee did not see its way to suggest any further actions being taken with regard to the question of weight, seeing that police regulations have been recently issued. (2) Mudguards.--The police representative reported that a mudguard as now being tried, as an experiment for a month, and that the Commissioner was anxious to obtain an efficient mudguard. The companies' representatives stated that they were equally anxious to adopt any mudguard that proved efficient. (3) Narrow Streets.-The companies' representatives expressed their willingness to consult the views of the local authorities as to any particular streets in which the ordinary rate of speed of motor omnibuses would render them objectionable, and to adopt regulations, where practicable, for lowering the speeds in such thoroughfares, or for sending the buses by another route on return journeys.
(4) New Roads. --The companies' representatives undertook, where prae
ticable, to consult the local authorities or their officers, even if only unofficially, as to any new routes which they proposed to open, and to consider the views of the local authorities, or of their officers, as to the roads to be followed, or as to any alternative thoroughfares suggested. The local
thorities' representatives undertook, in return, if they were apprised of the intention permanently to use thoroughfares in time, to deal with the matter in the annual estimates, to consider as to paving with more-permanent material of the thoroughfares involved.
(5) Stopping-places.-The companies' representatives intimated their willingness to consider any representations which the local authorities might make as to the desirability or otherwise of having stopping-places at particular points.
(6) Camber of roads.-The companies' representatives asked that, in remaking roadways, the local authorities would, so far as they could, lower the camber so as to make thel.oadways more suitable for motor traffic.
(7) Kerbs at footpaths.-The companies' representatives asked that the local authorities would, in similar circumstances, also consider as to whether the kerbs of roadways used by motor omnibuses could be deeper.
A further meeting of the conferenee will take place at the Westminster City Hall shortly.