Buses Required in Norway.
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The acting commercial secretary, His Majesty's Legation, Oslo, reports that the Oslo tramway authorities are calling for tenders, which have to be presented in Norway by February let next, for the supply of 20 motorbuses. It would appear that British manufacturers may stand a chance of securing the erder, and, if they be interested, they can obtain full particulars by communicating with the Department of Overseas Trade, 35, Old Queen Street, London, S.W,1, quoting reference AX.8929.
A New South-Wales Service.
The service projected by West Wales Motors, Ltd., Ammanford, to connect west and north Carmarthenshire with Swansea, which was held up by difficulty in obtaining sanction from local authorities, has now come into being. The company has commenced a daily express bus service from Llandebie via Ammanford, Tyeroes, Llanedy, and Pontardulais to Swansea. Seven journeys each way .tare made daily except Sundaya, when there is oue departure each direction.
To Relieve Bond street Traffic.
The highways committee of West-. minster City Council is preparing a report on therseggestien of the London: and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee that Smile Row should be continued into. Conduit Street. When means were beift considered for alleviating traffic congestion in Bond Street a census was taken which revealed that the number of buses per hour was only 4.3 per cent, of the total number of vehicles entering Bond Street. . It is thought that the extension of Savile Row will relieve the Bond Street pressure.,
Equipment for Industrial Tractors.
We are advised by Muir-Hill (Engineers), Ltd., of Elsinore Road, OIcl: Trafford, Manchester, that its wellknown loading shovel, using as a basis the new Pordson or Rushton tractor, is priced at £435 and that the operating cost, including interest on capital, depreciation, driver's wages, oil and fuel and an allowance for repairs and maintenance, is approximately 3s, per hour, or 1.5d. per ton loaded.
At present the dumping tractor is supplied as a modified Fordson machine, but in the near future it is hoped to offer the Rushton tractor also in this form. The price of this appliance is £405.
Illuminated Traffic Lines.
The Illuminated Road Line, Ltd,, 58, Pall Mall, London, W.1, informs us that, after months of experiment, it has, with the aid offthe Ministry of Transport, made arrangements with the Paddington Borough Council and laid down a section of illuminated road line at the junction of Bayswater.Road and Edgware Road.
Under this system the line installed is 5 ins, wide and is sunk into the roadway for a depth of 5 ins. Alternate sections of white vitreous tiles and laminated glass of extreme strength and thickness cover a channel in which electric lamps of a special design are placed. The lighting a the line is effected automatieally at the normal lighting-up hour. The channel containing the appa
ratus is of steel construction, and, we are told, is capable ofvvithstanding the weight of heavy traffic.
Hayward% Ltd., the well-known engineering concern, lora undertaken the construction of the experimental section.
By developing the illuminated road line it is hoped that a system of automatic control of traffic by means of the lighting of the line alternating from white to red, will prove a good method of securing central control of traffic in big centres.
Bournemouth's Bus Bill.
Bournemouth Corporation has passed the parliamentary Bill seeking power to run trolley-buses along any tramway route and to empower the corporation to operate motorbuses within the borough. The -corporation also seeks authority, with the consent of the Minister of Transport and the local body of any district, to operate vehicles outside the borough, within a radius of 10 miles from the Town Hall.