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9th November 1911
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

Keywords : Light Rail, Tram, Nottingham

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Leeds trolleybus system has taken, during the first three months of its operation, 8.38d. per mile.

Chain driven gearboxes are amongst the few novelties to be seen at Olympia ; the motorbus is responsible for their adoption.

There seem to be a lot of fine old houses in Hampstead which the new light motorbuses belonging to the L.G.O.C. are causing to crumble to pieces.

The first annual dinner of the stan! of the Turnham Green depot of the L.G.O.C. will take place at the P av ilion Hotel, Wormwood Serubbs, on Friday, the 24th of November,

The National Steam Car Co. (1911), Ltd., the owners of the National fleet of Clarkson motorbuses, reports an increase of £2,793 in receipts for October, 1911, as compared with the same month in the pre i boils year. This company now has 45 motorbuses.

Edinburgh is still considering the possibility of a petrol-electric service of motorbuses in preference to its existing cable tramways. The Tilling-Stevens is the type which is receiving very close attention by interested parties in that city at the present time.

The Silsden Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., has lost two of its vehicles by fire. Considerable delay was due to the fact that the local fire brigade could not be called out owing to a dispute with the local authorities which has recently rendered them unavailable.

New Registrations.

Clay Cross Motor Bus Co., Ltd., with an authorized capital of 22,000 in R1 shares, by Jordan and Sons, Ltd., to carry on the business of motorbus, tnotorcab, and car proprietors, etc. Minimum cash subscription, £400. First directors : T. Greaves, G. Kenning, G. L. Wilkinson, A. Hunter, G. W. Dickinson, and A. Slack.

Lancashire and Yorkshire General Omnibus Co. and County Borough Tramways, LW., with an authorized capital of 2100 in Is. shares, by Newman and Sons, 65-6, Chancery Lane, W.C., to carry on the business of motorcar, omnibus, etc., proprietors, carriers of passengers and goods by motive power, eta.

The Local Rating of Tram Tracks.

The C.M.U.A, intends to prosecute an active Press campaign, in all the local newspapers which create part of London's opinion in the suburbs, anent the justification for the local rating of tramway tracks by borough councils.

The Village Pump.

A gentleman named Mr. W. Turner, who lives at Mount Tabor, in the neighbourhood of Halifax, writes an amusing letter to a local paper -" The Halifax Evening Courier." A cutting containing his long letter, with regard to the proposed motorbus service, has been sent to us by a local correspondent. Mr. W. Turner is anxious that no motorbus service shall be established anywhere near his own village pump. He announces that he has taken some considerable pains to ascertain what it feels like to ride in a motorbus, and he, as an authority, warns his fellow residents against the vehicle. " From these infernal conveyances I seriously hope we shall be delivered." he hymns. In the course of his description of his one ride in a motorbus, he wails " Fifteen minutes before due out the motorbus comes throbbingly tearing along." We need not make further quotations from this letter, which appears to contain some slight trace of bias, but any of our readers who would be interested to peruse this gentleman's entertaining account of modern motorbus operation will no doubt. be furnished by the Editor of " The Halifax Evening Courier" with a copy of the letter in question. We notice that the Editor adds to Mr. Turner's effusion a note that the letter which was "intended for publication yesterday was unavoidably crowded out." What a pity the congestion has relaxed.

A Useful Chairman.

Oxford is nearly in a state of revolution with regard to the proposed tramways for that city. Many residents consider that the installation of an overhead wiie would ruin the amenities of the old University town. During a recent. discussion on the subject, the Town Clerk was asked if the council had power to refuse licences for motorbuses if application were made in opposition to the suggested tramway system. The Town Clerk replied that only the Watch Committee had the power of licensing. A member considered that it was a wrong state of things that the chairman of this Watch Committee should also be chairman of the Tramway Co against whose interests the granting of such licences would be.


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