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News contributirin,,, air inrited : payment wiq be made on publication, A further 400 omnibus horses were sold in Landon last week. They fetched, on an average, 25 guineas apiece.
Stagg and Robson, Ltd., of Selby, Yorks., asks us to state that it has sold two more double-deck motorbus bodies to the Keighley Corporation.
The Hull Corporation, after a full month's trial in service of a set of Shrapnel splashguards upon one of its motorbuses, has ordered a set each for the six double-deck vehicles which make up the present fleet.
During the latter part of last week, the Ordinary stock of the London General Omnibus Co., Ltd., was in some demand. As very little of this stock was available. -Lite £100 share had risen from 19 to 35 in ten days.
Owners of Vanguard debenture stock are now receiving certificatexs for " C " Debenture stock in the London General Omnibus Co., Ltd., in ate cordance with the terms of the purchase agreement.
An Elaborate Char•-a.-bancs.
We reproduce, on tins page, a photograph of one of the smart new Dennis public-service vehicles of which Mr. T. Copp. of Ilfracombe, is taking delivery. We have alreadY recorded. something of the considerable preparations which are being made in this popular N. Devon seaside resort properly to provide adequate motortransport facilities for holiday-makers during the coming season. This new machine will certainly compare favourably with anything of its type which has hitherto been put into service. The 2.I-seated body, which has " ro tund seats., is mounted on a 35 11.p. standard Dennis chassis. Amongst many practical features of this useful machine are the ample luggage space on the front part of the canopy and the voluminous side curtains fitted with celluloid windows.
The motorbus service between Portslade and Hove, which, in the fall of last ydar, was suspended owing to the bad state in which part of the route was maintained, is to be resumed. After much local dismission, the road in question has been put into repair.
Motorbus Overturned This cry has been true only about six times in the past six years. Our contemporary " The Daily Graphic " was wrong last week, and we reproduce (page 44) the poster which it would probably like to see forgotten.
Export Albions.
Further to our recent reports of sales of Albion goods vehicles, we now learn that Albion chars-it-banes are proving in great demand for the British Colonies and Foreign States. Readers of this journal will appreciate the severity of running conditions in many of the newer colonies, and the successful use of motor vehicles, such as the Albion, must be a matter of gratification to the makers.
A Preston Project.
Mr. E. P. Loots, of Bamber Bridge, continues his endeavours to promote a public-vehicle service for the Preston district. Steps are now being taken to secure promises of subscriptions for a compaey, with an authorized capital of
10,000. which it is proposed to register. Additional particulars may alternatively he ohninpd from Messrs. Plant, Abbott oral Plant, Solicitors, of 13, Winekley Street, Preston.
Our Table.
Owing to the imminence of the Easter holidays, and to the consequent advancement of the time of going to press with the present issue, the statistics for our weekly table of Greater London's passenger transport were not available. The table will appear again in the next issue.
The " AntiMud-Splashing " Congress.
In our last issue we recorded the assembly, on Tuesday of last week, of the delegate.4 from various Metropolitan borough councils at Battersea Town Hall to consider the " intolerable nuisance of the motorbus. The opinions expressed on that occasion by certain of the representatives are worth recording.
Mr. Tagg (town clerk of Camberwell) said that they must recognize that motor-omnibuses were of great service to people travelling between their homes and their work ; 250 millions of pessengers were carried in the course of a year by motorbuses, and therefore no Commissioner of Police or Home Secretary would be strong: enough to restrict the comfort of that number of peesengers. Motor-omnibuses were not the only vehicles to splash. lie moved as an amendment: that a committee should be appointed to confer with representatives of the motor-omnibus companies in London. That plan had never been tried before, and he thought that some good might come of it.
Mr. E. C. Elgood (Paddington) said that traction-engines and motor-tractors were an even-greater nuisance than the omnibuses, as they made a greater noise and vibration, and did that at night, and did not serve as useful a purpose as the motor-omnibuses.
:Mr. Pentney (Hockney) condemned the motor-omnibuses as " infernal machines '' which ripped up roads and destroyed property. They never ought to have been licensed. Their weight was excessive and their. speed was too great.
Mr. E. Tovey (Bermondsey) thought the roads ought to be improved, 23 many of them were a disgrace to the beroughs they belonged to. Motor yeivies were of service to the public. Major 11. S. E. Doll (Chelsea) thought that the state of the roads was largely to blame for the splashing, and that the electric tramcars were a greater nuisance than the omnibuses.
r, The amendment was carried, and a committee was appointed.
"Cernmer Car" Passenger Vehicles.
The following have to be added to the long list of " Commer Car" sales for passenger transport: To the London and North-Western Railway Co., two Braintree-type chassis, for single deck bodies of the railway company's own construction, each chassis having a 22 h.p. engine; to Mr. David Jones, of Aberavon, per George Ace, Ltd., of Swansea and Tenby, the district agents for " Commer Car " vehicles, a Bridgewa.ter-type chassis, fitted with a char-it-bancs body of special design ; to the Ortona Motor Co., Ltd., of Cam bridge, a double-deck omnibus; to the Transit Express Co., of Ireland, three Bridgewater-type chassis with char-abanes bodies, and two Braintree-type chassis with char-it-barns bodies.
A two-ton " Commer Car " has recently been sold, for public passenger service in country districts of New South Wales. It is being fitted with a 12-seated char-a-bancs body, and is intended for service in the Tamworth district where the country is very mountainous.
The Paris Fleet.
In the course of some remarks upon the new motorbus monopoly in Paris, which have been published elsewhere, the number of motorbuses "at present in active. service" in Paris was given as 800. In reply to several correspondents who have drawn our attention to this obvious inaccuracy, we have to state that, the actual fleet consists of 120 machines and that, during the recent flood-times, about a dozen additional maehines were pressed into service. A full and accurate account, from the pen of our Paris correspondent, of the latest motorbus developments in Paris was published on page 28a of our last issue.