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At the time of going to press, L.G.O. ordinary stock was quoted at 92-5. The fall from 122 of a few weeks ago is entirely due to the proposed rival Daimler flotation.
The Sanitary Committee of the Manchester Corporation is asking for tenders for motor ambulances and bedding vans. Further partieu lars will be found elsewhere in our advertisement columns.
A local company, with a capital of £10,000, is to be formed to run motorbuses between Caerphilly, Llambradaeh, Aber, Sengbenydd and Bedwas in South Wales. The secretary is Mr. T. J. Coggins, 80, Queen Street, Cardiff.
A Large Order for Acetylene Lighting.
The Allen-Liversidge Portable Acetylene Co., Ltd., advises us that it has just received an order from the London General Omnibus Co. for a further 250 acetylene generators, making a total of 627 acquired by this concern. The success of this speciality is already remarkable, and it is interesting to note that, through S. Smith and Son, Ltd., the system has been fitted to one of the cars belonging to His Majesty the King, as well as to touring cars belonging to Queen Mary and to the Dowager Queen Alexandra.
extraordinary resolution with regard to the disposal of all accounts and documents. It may be recalled that this society was successfully conducted, with the co-operation of this journal, during its first few sessions. It subsequently appears to have fallen upon evil times.
Services.
Amongst the new and altered services which are shortly to be inaugurated by the L.G.O. traffic department, consequent upon the. further withdrawal of horse-buses and the recent amalgamation with the Great Eastern Co. are the fol
lowing. No. 4 is a new service which will run from the Elephant and Castle to Islington via King William Street, Cheapside, Aldersgate Street and Goswell Road. No. 21, which commenced running on Good Friday, will in future be extended to Manor House, Finsbury Park ; its southern terminus is to be as before, Old Kent Road. No. 23 is another new sersice between East Ham and Shepherd's Bush, and No. 30 is yet another between Fulham Cross and King's Cross. No. 12, the Turnha.m Green to London Bridge Station service, will shortly be withdrawn, and in its place No. 17, which previously ran between Ealing and East Ham, will run between the former terminus and London Bridge Station. Service No. 5, which has hitherto run between Putney and Barns
bury will be extended to Tollington Park, and No. 14, the Putney to Wanstead service, is to be turned at. Piccadilly Circus and to go to Hornsey Rise. The Elephant to Stratford service, No. 10, is in future to have Wanstead as its eastern terminus. Considerable service modifications have had to he made, to comply with the City Corporation's new route regulations.
On the occasion of the Final Cup Tie football match at the Crystal Palace, on the 22nd ult. a party of 40 employees from Leyland Motors Ltd. indulged in a trip to London. Leaving Leyland at 12.a0 a.m. by special saloon, they were met at Euston by one of the London Central omnibuses, which had been placed at their disposal by Mr. Arthur Spurrier.