OPENING OF LEEDS NEW .BUS STATION
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THE new central bus station of Leeds Corporation, the principal features of which have already been mentioned in these columns, was opened on Wednesday, August 31.
In addition to the corporation, 10 other undertakings, operating stagecarriage services, have made arrangements with the corporation for the use of the station, and the number of stage-carriage service departures, inclusive of both municipal and privately owned buses, is put at 10,500 per week. Express and excursion and tour services will also use the station.
The stage-carriage operators who, in addition to the corporation, have. arranged to use thOstation, are the West Riding Automobile Co., Ltd.; South Yorkshire Motors, Ltd.; J. Bullock and Sons (1928), Ltd.; T. Burrows and Sons; Sheffield Corporation; the L.M.S. and L.N.E. Railway Co's. (operating jointly); the Yorkshire Woollen District Transport Co., Ltd.; the Yorkshire.Traction Co., Ltd.; and the Kippax and District Motor Co. The West Yorkshire Road Car Co., Ltd., has two bus stations of its own in Leeds.
The corporation's new station, which is behind Kirkgate Market, has been built at a cost of £15,000, and the amount paid for the two-and-a-thirdacre site which it covers brings the total expenditure to £44,000. Although the station is, for the time being, complete in itself, ultimately it will be used only as an arrival station, the Leeds Markets Committee's scheme providing for the later construction of a departure station on adjoining land.
WARNING TO LEWIS OPERATORS.
THE Traffic Commissioners for the North of Scotland Area. at a sitting in Stornoway on Monday, granted a new road service licence to Mr. John Mitchell, Stornoway, for a service between Rodel, and Stornoway. It was explained that the new service was intended to link up with a ferry connecting Harris with the Uists and Barra.
Mr. Riches„ chairman, warned operators that there had been complaints that, contrary to the conditions of their licences, they were not issuing tickets to passengers. The Commissioners, he said, had been tolerant with the Lewis bus owners, hut after several years' operation they would have -to take steps to ensure a compliance with licence conditions.
ABERDEEN BUS TENDER RECOMMENDATIONS.
THE acceptance of tenders for 10 single-deck 'and 10 double-deck buses was recommended by Aberdeen Town Council Transport Committee last week. For the double-deck buses it is recommended that the council should purchase five Daimler chassis with Gardner six-cylindered oil engines, and five A.E.C. six-cylinder chassis.
It is further recommended that Mr. William Walker, of Aberdeen, be given the contract kir the bodywork for the 10 single-deck buses and for three of the double-deck vehicles.' The remaining seven double-deck bodies are to be built by Metropolitan Cammell Weyrnann Motor Bodies, Ltd.
AU the vehicles will have oil engines, whilst the bodywork of the double-deck buses will be all-metal and that of the single-deck vehicles of composite construction. The single-deck buses will seat from 35 to 39 passengers, and the double-deck vehicles from 54 to 56. These new buses will, so far as is possible, replace older machines.
DISCARDING THE TRAMS IN HALIFAX.
THE first step in the carrying out of Halifax Town Council's recent decision to abandon the whole of the town's remaining tram routes and to employ, further motorbuses, was taken last week, when the tram service on the Highroad Well route was discontinued. This was one of the first tram routes to be opened in Halifax—on June 29, 1898.
PLYMOUTH ABOLISHES .RETURN FARES
AT Plymouth on Wednesday of last week, the Traffic Commissioners for the Western Area granted an application of Plymouth Corporation to abolish return fares on 10 routes of its
city services. The town clerk, Mr. Cohn Campbell, said that it was hoped to secure approximately £10,000 a year increased revenue as a direct result.
NEW BUSES FOR WIESBADEN.
THE Bussing-Nag Co. recently received an order for buses from Wiesbaden Council for the municipal transport of that city, and the new buses are now being delivered. These are Bussing four-wheeled 120 h.p. oilengined machines with 60-seater bodies. They replace 75 vehicles which have been in daily service since 1929. Fifty of these were six-wheelers, but in the 310,000 miles covered during their 11 years' work they showed relatively higher running costs than the 25 four-wheelers; hence the council's decision to adopt only four-wheeled chassis.