Merthyr's Progressive Motorbus System.
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The Merthyr Tydfil Council is to enlarge its bits fleet by the purchase of --three vehicles, two of which will be of luxury type, running on pneumatic tyres. At the November meeting of the council it was stated that the enterprise was making remarkable progress. Net profits
up to March 3Ist last had aggregated £5,945, and whereas when the service was commenced, with 11 buses, the average receipts were about £175 per week on a mileage of 3,750-and from the transport of 11,600 passengers, receipts now amounted an an average to 1400 per week on a mileage of 8,250, whilst 38,000 passengers were carried,
New Leyland Catalogues.
Leyland vAhicles which have become familiar under the appellarions Lion, Long Lion, Lioness, Tiger, Tigress Mild Titan are dealt with, in two new catalogues which have just been published by Leyland Motors, Ltd., Leyland, Lancs. The first three models are, as is well known, . four-cylinder chassis built for passenger-carrying, whilst the others have as their basis a chassis in which a six-cylindered power unit is employed. In each catalogue a brief but lucid description serves to direct attention to the outstanding features, whilst ' a number a clear illustrations depicts important details of construc
tion. The chief dimensions of each.
chassis are enumerated and suitable types of body for mounting on them fall described and illustrated. The catalogues are produced in the usual good style and taste associated with the Leyland company, and the covers are most distinctive., bearing as they de realistic embossed coloured drawings of 'a Lion and Tiger respectively.
Welding Engineers' Meeting.
A meeting of the -Institution of Welding' Engineers will be held at the &mat Wales Institute of Engineers, Park Place, Cardiff, on November 80th, when Mr. W. H. Walby will read a paper dealing with the .oxy-acetylene welding of cast-iron and aluminium.