First Stage in Big Bus Station Plan DART of Guildford
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Corporation's I town planning scheme, a new bus station in Onslow Street, Guildford, will be opened next Wednesday. It is a temporary structure and forms the first step in a three-stage plan tO construct a bus station on both sides of the River Wey. Eventually, all the bus services terminating in the borough will be accommodated there.
As from June 22, 13 services are to operate from the Onslow Street station, which has three loading platforms subdivided into eight numbered bays. Queue-type shelters for the platforms have been provided by London Transport.
The second stage will comprise the . construction of a station on the opposite bank of the river, where there will be 14 bays, entered from Farnham Road. It is hoped that this work will be completed by the end of the year.
In the final stage, the remaining half of the permanent station in Onslow Street will be built, incorporating the land already occupied by the temporary station. Eventually, there will be 18 bays and the Onslow Street station will be linked to the other station by a footbridge across the river. \Vatting rooms and administrative buildings are also to be provided, OBITUARY
VVE regret to announce the deaths of VI' Ma. LESLIE WALTON, MR. A. P. Fox, MR. JAMES MACDONALD, MR. THOMAS SHAW and MR. C. LEFos.
Mr. Walton, who died at Victoria, British Columbia, at the age of 67, became joint managing director of Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., in 1907, and was chairman from 1914 until 1947, when he retired.
Mr. Fox was managing director of Scammell Lorries, Ltd., until December 31, 1947, when he retired for reasons of health. Be went to South Africa in January this year, but on arrival became seriously ill. He recovered sufficiently to travel back to this country at the end of May. He was a director of Scammell Lorries, Ltd., at the time of his death.
Mr. James Macdonald was for many years chief electrical engineer of Glasgow Transport Department, and retired in 1946.
Mr. Shaw, managing director of Kentp and Shaw, Ltd., a Leicester concern of bus operators, was 69 years of age.
Mr. Leeds had represented Pirelli, Ltd , in Scotland, since May, 1937.
RADIO CONTROL OF BUSES
RADIO control of traffic at abnormally busy periods was used for the first time by Sheffield Passenger Transport Department on Whit-Monday. On the motorbus routes chiefly favoured by holiday-makers, radio cars transmitted traffic information to their base at Fox House, linked with Sheffield by a radio station at Crookes depot, on one of the city's highest points. Buses could thus be fed to needy points in minimum time. _
WOOLWICH FERRY CLOSED
WOOLWICH ferry, which is now under renovation, will be closed for about a month. The piers and bridges are being repaired at the King George V dock, an operation which was last performed in 1929. • Alternative traffic routes are the Blackwall and Rotherhithe tunnels. Tower Bridge is also undergoing repair.
BIGGER GENEVA SHOW
BECAUSE of its financial and trading success, the Geneva Salon de L'Automobile will be extended in size next year. M. Charles Dechevrens will again be president of the organizing committee of the exhibition, which is planned to be held from March 16-26, 1950.
City of Oxford Motor Service, Ltd., has received authority to extend its Oxford-Long Compton service to Stratford-on-Avon daily, in conjunction with Stratford-on-Avon Blue Motors, Ltd.