NOVEL USE OF OLD BUSES
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01'1) buses belonging to Glasgow Corporation are to be used to form a new service of mobile libraries which the corporation proposes to introduce for outlying suburbs of the city. The buses will be fitted out as vans, the top deck being used for the juvenile section and the lower deck for adults. The cost of equipping and operating one van, for the first year, is estimated to cost about £1,200.
DUNDEE MAY HAVE TROLLEYBUSES.
LAST week, Dundee Transport Committee considered suggestions in connection with 'traffic problems in the city. Many were connected with new housing schemes on the outskirts of the city, whilst alternative suggestions included extensions of existing tram services, and the introduction of trolleybuses.
Lord Provost Phin described Dundee's transport problem as unique, because of the hilly contour of the city. He did not think the existing transport services were well laid out, He said that the buses and trams might be scrapped and that trolleybuses might be introduced. There must, he said, be a cure for the whole problem, and he suggested engaging an expert.
It was decided, meanwhile, to purchase 16 new buses and to receive a report from the manager on the whole problem,
BODYWORKS COVERING SEVEN ACRES.
THE coach and bus bodies built by Thos. Harrington, Ltd., of Hove, Brighton, are of composite construction in which wood, which has been naturally seasoned, is used. This point is one of outstanding importance, as the quality of the timber employed governs the life of the body. The factory at Hove covers seven acres, and each department is equipped with the most up-to-date machinery. The story of Harrington coachwork is told in a most attractively produced brochure, a piece of literature which, in itself, is in keeping with the concern's products—distinctive and possessing individuality.
TRANSPORT CHIEFS VISIT DAIMLER'S
FOLLOWING the quarterly meeting of the Midland Association of Municipal Tramways and transport, at Coventry last week, a party of members visited the Daimler factory, where it was shown the processes in the manufacture of various aircraft components, as well as of Daimler buses and trolley
buses. In the latter department; a demonstration Lockheed-Gates booster was examined with considerable interest, and it was learnt that two of these sets have, for some little time, been in use on Daimler trolleybuses, and with every success.
Mr. J. R. Alexander, commercial sales director of the Daimler company, in a short speech stated that the policy of the company, to maintain the high quality which has always been associated with the name of Daimler, is one from which it will not depart in any circumstances. The Lord Mayor of Leicester, Alderman T. G. Gooding, M.I3.E., J.P. traced the history of the company from its beginning, in 1896.