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8th November 1935, Page 199

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Keywords : Buses, Double-decker Buses

QN: Monday, the London .Transport Arbitration Tribunal approved a settlement between London Transport and the City Motor Omnibus Co. for thd transfer of the latter undertaking to the Board. The amount agreed for assets, buses, garages, etc-, was £60,340,

The Tribunal reserved its decision on provisional agreements concerning the Earl Motor Omnibus Co., £8,000 (£2,750 paid on account); Adelaide Omnibus Co., £5,250; Messrs, Holliday and Bangs, £8,800: (£4,500 paid on account); and the Essex Motor Omnibus Co., £6,250.

On Tuesday, the following settlements were announced :—Enterprise Transport Co., £45,000 (£17,500 paid• oo account) ; E. Brickwood, Ltd. • £19,000; 14. Rapier, £20,500 (10,000 paid on account) ; United Omnibus Co., 05,000; F. Steer,

£9,400; Perque ' Transport -• Co,, £47,500 (£20,000 paid on account) ; E. Puttergill, £16,700. The Tribunal reserved its decision OILERS FOR LEICESTER.

A LTHOUGII the transport corn1-16-mittee decided not to proCeed with the purchase of oil-engiued buses and showed some leaning towards the use of trolleybuses, Leicester City Council has agreed to spend £12,492 on the purchase of eight new oilers.

AVOIDING HITCHES IN COURT.

fi AlcCHESTER officials of the Corn.I.Virnercial Motor Users' Association are taking steps to secure the cooperation of the South-East Lanes Committee of the Association in establishing •a joint arbitration committee for considering border-line eases affecting applications for road-service licences. With Mr. H. H. Lapsley as secretary, the Manchester area already has means for adjusting points of difference between member and member, thereby anticipating and relievinri hitches that might occur in court.

NEW SAFETY MEASURE FOR BUSES.

A DEVICE by means of which bus passengers or the conductor can operate the brakes should the driver become incapacitated has been invented and patented by Mr. W. Vane Morland, general manager of Leeds Transport Department, and Mr. T. H. Parkinson, one of the department's engineers.

The device has been exhaustively tested in Leeds on an A.E.C. oil-driven double-deck bus, and it is fitted in a new streamlined A.E.G. bus supplied to Leeds Corporation, which is at the Commercial Motor Show. The apparatus is operated by means of electric switches in the vehicle, either of which will set in motion an electric motor, which puts the brakes into operation, the power being applied progressively, so as to prevent skidding. By means of a ratchet, the brakes are held on.

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