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Weymouth Town Council is much dissatisfied with the manner in which Motor Coaches, Ltd., has failed adequately to provide an efficient motorbus service for the town.
Kingston Wants Buses.
A letter was recently read before the Thames Ditton District Council, suggesting that a motorbus service between Esher High Street and Kingston would be greatly valued by residents in the surrounding districts.
Another in Yorkshire.
Commercial Car Hirers, Ltd., is still developing its provincial services in the Midlands and the north. The latest. route to be thus covered is from Wakefield to Ossett, in connection with the Dewsbury-Ossett tramways.
In the Air.
At a recent meeting of the Richmond (Surrey) Town Council, at which the vexed question of the existing Kew Road horsed trams was specially discussed, Councillor Carless gave it as his opinion that " overhead trams are better than motorbuses." Why not subterranean ones?
L.C.C. Queues,
The Highways Committee of the London County Council has been considering the question of enforcing the formation of queues for passengers at points on the tramways system where it. is found difficult to maintain order. The Committee is advised that the Council has no power to make any by-law on the subject, and it has recommended that, Parliamentary authority be sought to enable the queue system to be enforced.
No Old Chassis.
We still regularly receive reports of `c negotiations with regard to a Bromley-Farnborough motorbus service." A promoter. to whom the use of second-hand L.G.O. chassis has been suggested, stated that in his opinion such machines were out of the question for suburban service, and that, in his opinion, they would not be licensed for Metropolitan running. "It would be a matter of difficulty," he is reported to have said, " to enter into a yearly contract at a fixed charge per mile for secondhand machines. The price for this would be considerably higher than for new vehicles, whilst the in
creased speed, reliability, and other advantages of the latter, would need to be taken into consideration."
Deptford -Wood Green.
On Monday last, the L.G.O.C. inaugurated a new service between Wood Green and Deptford, via ClissoId Park, Bank and the Borough. This new route is 12 miles long, and the through fare will be sixpence ; the full journey will occupy SO minutes and the vehicles will run at 4-minute intervals.
Birmingham Buses.
Renewed efforts are being made by certain tramway enthusiasts to run tramways along Hagley Road, Birmingham. The opposition to such a scheme is still pronounced. Our Birmingham correspondent informs us that the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co. has applied for 40 licences, and that a " K.P.L." vehicle has already been submitted to the hackney-carriage authorities, as an example of the class of machine it is intended to employ. The committee practically promised the licences, on condition that the old horsed buses should he replaced, and that the licences should only hold good until the Council is prepared to run tramways up Flagley Road. It is proposed to commence operations in April next.
From New Zealand.
Our correspondent in New Zealand writes :-A special meeting of the Business Men's League' was held at Hamilton, New Zealand, in the first week of September, to consider the question of the tram scheme, which the chairman said the borough council did not seem ready to entertain. He thought the League should consider the advisability of forming a private company to provide the service. The secretary reported upon an interview with Mr. Black, engineer, of Wellington, who said he did not think the storage-battery cars would be suitable. With regard to an electric trolley system, it would require a population of 8,000 to 10,000 before it would be regarded as likely to be a success, as to obtain power from Hera Hora the transmission line alone from there would cost £8,000 to 210,000. He read a statement of estimated expenses to provide for two motorbuses, each to seat 25 passengers, and for one to seat 10 persons, and for garage and other equipment. It was decided that, with a view to the formation of a motorbus company, a circular containing estimates and details of the scheme should be printed and circulated, with the object of obtaining subscribers to the company. It was decided to call the company the Waikato Motor Transport Co."