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GATESHEAD'S THREE.. CORNEREDFIGHT
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r ATESHEA D Town Council has decided to petition against the Bill, being promoted by the Gateshead and District Tramways Co., Ltd., abandon the present train system and introduce a trolleybus service. The council is promoting a Bill to take over the tram company's system and replace it with trolleybuses.
The Northern General Transport Co., Ltd., and the Sunderland and District Omnibus Co., Ltd., have lodged objections against Gateshead Council's Bill.
TROLLEYB1JSES FOR SOUTH SHIELDS.
WITH the exception of the route W from Moon Street to Cleadon, all the South Shields Corporation's tram routes are expected to be converted to trolleybus operation by April. Tests were carried out with trolleybuses on the Ocean Road route, which is at present served by trams, last week.
Trolleybuses are to be inaugurated also from Ocean Road along the Coast Road to Marsden by July. This route is not served by trams.
NO MORE CONDUCTRESSES FOR SCOTTISH MOTOR TRACTION. rONDUCTRESSES on buses owned
by the Central Scottish Motor Traction Co., Ltd., are to be replaced by boys, who will eventually he taken on as drivers, should they prove suitable.
This decision has been reached as a result of investigations over a long period, the result showing that girls are not able to cope with heavy traffic as expeditiously and as satisfactorily as young men.
An official of the company states that there will be no dismissals of girls in consequence, but that as they leave they will be replaced by boys. "Girls." it was stated, " are entirely satisfactory where they are conducting in 29-seaters or 32-seaters, but larger vehicles are best served by boys."
NO FARE ON SLOW JOURNEYS.
NEW regulations governing hackney carriages have been submitted to the Manchester Corporation for approval. Amongst the general conditions. it is laid -down that should a motorcab, whilst carrying a passenger or passengers for hire, fail to complete a journey from any cause whatsoever within a reasonable time, the .circumstances and cause of stoppage must be reported by. the driver to the corporation within 24 hours, and no fare shall be demanded in respect of the distance travelled.
BUS SPEED WARNING.
AWARNING against speeding by buses on the Great North Road was uttered by Sir John Maxwell, chairman of the Northern Traffic Commissioners, at Newcastle-on-Tyne, last week. Sir John said the police had made strong representations on the matter, and the Commissioners might be called upon for a revision of timetables. The matter was being treated seriously.
100 GUINEAS FOR ADVICE.
LABOUR and anti-labour members, voting together, carried a recommendation of the transport committee of Lincoln City Council that an expert should be engaged at a fee of 100 guineas to advise the corporation, in a general way, on its transport undertaking. The chairman of the transport committee, Councillor J. K. Fox, expressed his strong disapproval of the action of his committee.
BIRMINGHAM ORDERS 100 MORE BUSES
BIR MINGHAM Corporation transport department has placed an order with Transport Vehicles (Daimler), Ltd., Coventry, for 100 motorbuses. The order comprises part of the 185 vehicles which the corporation has decided to acquire, principally on account of the change-over from trams On some of its Staffordshire services, and for renewal purposes.
It is expected that the first consignment will be delivered early in the autumn, and the contracts completed before the end of the year. This order brings the Birmingham Corporation fleet to over 1,000 vehicles.
FUTURE OF LEICESTER'S TRANSPORT.
RraE transport committee of eicester Corporation has unanimously adopted the recommendation of Mr. Benjamin England. engineer and general manager, that oil-engined buses and not trolleybuses shall be employed to replace the tramway system.
Advice on these lines was given by Mr. W. Donaldson Wright, at the annual dinner of the East Midland Division of the C.M.U.A., held at Leicester.
NOTTINGHAM TRIES OUT SAFETY DEVICE.
A "SIGNALLING device, through the agency of which passengers are advised when it is safe to board or alight, is being tried out on a Nottingham Corporation bus. It consists of a switch, operated by the driver, controlling illuminated words positioned in a panel at the rear of the vehicle. "Keep on' and "keep off" notices are controlled by the driver, and the word " Full " can he switched on by the conductor.