BUSES REPLACE TRAMS AT WORCESTER.
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A Well-known Company to Maintain Bus Services Over Routes Hitherto Operated by Tramcars.
IXTITH the closing of the day's work V V on May 31st the last tramcar plied on the Worcester streets, being replaced next morning by Midland " Red" buses. As was reported in these columns at the time, Worcester Corporation, some two years or so ago, obtained Parliamentary powers to run passenger services both inside the city and for a certain radius outside it.
The corporation subsequently decided to purchase the tramways system from the tramway company for 158,000 and to let the running powers to the Midland "Red" Co. for the services to be maintained by buses on the basis of the corporation receiving 100 per cent. of
the returns over is, id. per mile on all vehicles belonging to the company which bring passengers into the town or take them out. Thus, the arrangement applies not only to the city services but to all the outside services which the company has converging upon Worcester.
An up-to-date garage has been built by the Midland "Red" Co. for the purposes of the Worcester services and this will hold 55 vehicles, although, at present, only 12 buses are required for the city services, those in the outside area not yet having been started, though arrangements are said to be in hand. The buses are all37-seaters of the latest front-entrance low-loading type.