ROUTES FOR EMPIRE EXHIBITION
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ANUMBER of routes has been arranged by the Glasgow Police Traffic Department for vehicles bound for Bellahouston Park during the period of the Empire Exhibition. No private cars will be allowed to park in surrounding streets, but provision is to be made for public service vehicles, so that parties may not be inconvenienced by having to walk too far.
A MECCA IN THE NORTH-EAST.
SUB-COMMITTEE of local ti authorities, transport companies and tourist and travel agencies in that area, has been set up to inaugurate a campaign to make the north-east— Northumberland, Durham and Yorkshire—the Mecca of holidaymakefs.
50 YEARS IN THE INDUSTRY.
THERE are few concerns which can I lay claim to having been associated with mechanical transport for half a century. Grose, Ltd., of Northampton, can make this claim, however, and it is fitting that, later in the year, the company will open a new section of fts service department.
This has been modelled on the most modern lines, with non-absorbent floors, garage walls of green glazed brick, and pits walled in glazed brick.
CALEDONIAN TO CARRY OUT EXTENSIONS. rXTENSIONS are to be carried out L.dat Dumfries by the Caledonian Omnibus Co., Ltd. The scheme involves new office accommodation, an upholstery shop, heating chamber, inspection room and tyre store, with an addition of 10,000 sq. ft. to the existing covered garage,
DEATH OF PIONEER BUS OPERATOR.
ONE of Derbyshire's pioneers of motorbus transport, Mr. William Stoppard, died at Clay Cross, on March 25. He was 51 years of age. He was the head of the firm of Messrs. William Stoppard and Son, and originated the bus services between Clay Cross and Ashover, Matlock and Holmewood, and, for a period, operated a Clay Cross-Chesterfield service.
EDINBURGH CASTLE BUS SERVICE.
A SUMMER bus service from Waverin. ley Bridge to Edinburgh Castle, via Princes Street, is to commence on April 1.
REGULATIONS A BAR TO SERVICE
QTRONG criticism of the regulations s.J covering the operation of public service vehicles was made recently by the Chipping Norton (Oxon) Bench at the conclusion of a case in which Thomas Edward Worth, of Enstone, was charged with overloading.
It was alleged by the representative of the Traffic Commissioners that one of Worth's buses had been found to be carrying 2..3 passengers; its proper capacity was 20. There was no conductor.
Worth explained, in evidence, that the vehicle was employed in taking men to and from work on an aerodrome now under construction, and that it was difficult to estimate the exact number of passengers on return journeys. The Mayor of Chipping Norton, chairman of the Bench, said that the magistrates considered that a technical offence had been committed. He added It appears to us that the road traffic regulations restrict the enterprise of individuals who are anxious to give public service, and that in certain ways they prohibit really efficient service to the public.