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The s-eekly Traffic returns were unavailable for inclusion in the present issue, which went to press early.
The design of worm-driven back axles is the subject matter of a comprehensive article which appears on pp. 519-:322 of this issue.
The conclusion of our critical review a the third annual report of the London Traffic Branch of the Board of 'trade appears on pp. 522-523 of this issue. The report contains much that is interesting to those who are now engaged in the operation of public-service stage carriages.
The Scarborough Proposal.
Commercial Car Hirers, Ltd., has recently made an application to the Streets and Buildings Committee of the Scarborough Town Council for permission to inaugurate a motorbus service in that Yorkshire watering place. A snb-committee which has had this application under consideration, has now recommended that it shall stand over for a time.
Electrobus.
In our last issue we mentioned a case which had been commenced before Mr. Justice Neville in the Chancery Division between the Re-organization and Control Syndicate, Ltd., and the International Motor Syndicate Ltd., together with the Preston, Hove and Brighton United Omnibus Co., Ltd. Judgment was given last week and Mr. Justice Neville said that it seemed to him that the action had failed. It was admitted that the sale of the electric buses to the Brighton company was a wrongful sale. An inquiry was ordered into the terms of the counter claim. The action was dismissed with costs as ogninst the Brighton company, and the action was dismissed without costs as against the defendant syndicate.
Where the Motorbus Scores.
The Chief Officer of the L.C.C. Tramways, replying to a communication from the St. Pancras Borough Council urging more frequent services, says inter aim:— Motor omnibuses which run between Hampstead and Victoria are not handicapped in the same way as are the Council's Hampstead and Euston ears by shortness of route. It is by running through to Victoria, and carrying passengers to peints beyond Euston, that these omnibuses are able to exist on that section of the route which is between Hampstead and Easton Road."
Our positive announcement of last week is now confirmed : the L.G.O. Co. is acquiring the 0.E.L.M.O. Co. We do not know details at the moment of going to press (early, this week), but we forecast : that the Great Eastern Cu. will be continued for a while; that Sir Thos. Pile and Mr. Fred. Griffiths will join the London General Board ; that two or more London-General directors will join the Great-Eastern Board ; that there will be no further issue of capital to the public ; that all the G.E. staff will be taken over ; that shareholders in the Great Eastern, on the basis of London-General stock at par, will get 21s. per Ll share.
We congratulate the parties. The London General is distinctly the gainer by having " Sir Thomas " and Mr. Fred. Griffiths at its table, and within the fold. They, with Mr. Davey, have fought successfully in the past, and come through. Now, all will pull to gether, and profits should go up. _ The Woolton Urban District Council has granted licences for the motorbuses which are now run by the Liverpool Corporation.
A new motorbus service is to run between Kingswinford and Wolverhampton. The tramway committee of Wolverhampton Town Council has insisted that the service shall not compete with the trains. Seating is provided for 17 passengers.
C.M.U.A. and Trackless Trams.
At the last meeting of the Executive Committee of the Commercial Motor Users' Association, consideration was given to the various trackless-trolley Bills that have been deposited for the present session in Parliament.
.The promoters of certain of these Bills have sought exemption from the provisions of the Heavy Motor Car Order, 1904, the regulations of which have been designed to protect macadamized roads against undue use, and the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders has lodged notice of objection in sonic instances.
The Association is of opinion that opposition should he made to the passing of any Bill which contains any clause seeking exemption from such provisions, and members in any of the undermentioned areas are urged to impress this view upon their Parliamentary representatives, together with a request that the Bills may (if necessary) be " blocked " until the objectionable clauses are amended. The Bills in question are those of :Aberdare, Brighton, Chiswick, Croydon, Halifax, Hove, Macclesfield, Malvern, Maltby, Matlock, Northampton, Newcastle, Oldham, Rotherham, Saddleworth. St. Helens, and Worthing.