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The Manchester Board of Guardians has decided to purchase a motorbus, at a cost of £800, for the conveyance of the sick poor to the infirmary at Crumpsall.
From 1st April to 13th September. the Keighley motorbuses earned L2.507, or 11.78d. per mile, over 51,000 car miles. The cost has been about 9d. per ear-mile.
The Mexborough District Council has refused an application from the Mexborough and Swinton Tramways Co. for permission to run a motor chars-a-bancs service on certain roads in the locality.
Running On Bog Foundations.
In the course of a reply to an assistant surveyor's report, which has been submitted to the Kenmare Council on the subject of heavy-motor traffic in the district, Mr. Hal Hoham, A.M.I.Mech.E., the engineer of the Tourist Development Co., which is running " Ceinnier Car " buses throughout the Kerry tourist district. declares that one of the roads with which the report deals has been ruined by the passage over it of the Council's 13-top stone-crusher and its 12-ton traction engine. It appears that it has taken several weeks to move this combination 16 miles. " Another road," retorts Mr. Holtom, "is certainly bad owing to the excessive and prolonged rainfall." None of the local roads are steam-rolled, there is no provision for drainage, and the metal is only a few inches thick. " Whenever the motors have been bogged, we have found the road metal itself never more than 4 in. or i in. deep, and then virgin bog.
Loughborough's Petrol-ElectricMotorbuses.
The motorbus service between Loughborough and the villages on the Leicester side was to have been inaugurated on Monday, the 19th inst.. and, in fact, the inaugural luncheon actually did take place; but while that ceremony was in progress, the first bus, a Hallford-Stevens petrolelectric, got into difficulties through its breaking through the crust of the hotel-yard into an old cesspool, the presence of which was not known to anyone present. The trial run, therefore, took place on the following day; it was attended by the Town Clerk and several members of the Corporation. Only one vehicle is at present working, but three more will shortly go into service.
A Good " Point " Badly Served. We have received a 'limber of communications drawing attention to the serious inconvenience of the revised hus service between Holborn and London Bridge. At rush times, it is practically impossible to secure a seat at Holborn Circus on any of the motorbuses which are none too frequent. A grooved endless grip tire made Horse buses on this route seem to
by the Continental Co. have disappeared. A representative See p. 71. of this journal, who personally in vestigated the matter the other evening, found quite an indignant crowd waiting at Holborn Circus. In the course of twenty minutes accommoda
tion was only available for three passengers for London Bridge. No horse buses passed during that time bound for the Brighton station, whilst all the motorbuses were full; there was a very-poor service of them. We feel sure that the L.G.O. Co. will lose no time in removing this inconvenience.
An Unfortunate Accident.
We regret to record an extraordinary motorbus accident, in which one of the Chatham-Maidstone double-deck motorbuses was involved. From information to band it would appear that the top deck of the vehicle was dismantled owing to a violent wrench it received as the result of a side-slip that occurred. Seven passengers were injured, and of these three had to be detained in hospital.
Motorbuses Wanted at Weymouth.
The proprietors of "The Weymouth Telegram have recently organized a plebiscite of the townspeople, with a view to the discovery of the wishes of the majority, with regard to the proposal of the Corporation to inaugurate a tram service in the town. Prominent amongst the replies, are many suggestions from townsfolk that they think a light type of motorbus would be the best solution of the passengertransport question in Weymouth. Local opinion appears to be nearly unanimous that a tramway service cannot be made to pay. Railway Motorbuses in London.
The London and North Western Railway Co. is reported to have found z he employment of its light singledecked station motorbuses so satisfactory in London that it is likely considerably in extend their use in the immediate future. Other railway companies which have been watching the running of the L. and NW. experimental " Commer Car," are now :•ikely to fall into line.
Welch Company Seeks Mail Contract.
Carnarvon Motors, Ltd., has conelided the first half year of its existence so satisfactorily that it feels justilied in purchasing another machine at (owe. An interim dividend at the rate el 10 per cent. per annum has been declared on the first six months. The vompany is to approach the Postmaster-General with a view to securing the contract for the carriage of mails on its machines between Carriervu and Fourerosses.