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The Chief Constable of Swansea is appealing to works, collieries and foundries in the district for subscriptions towards the cost of purchase of a new light motor ambulance for use in the surrounding neighbourhood.
On page 410 of this issue, we publish a report from a special correspondent of this journal with regard to the Brussels Show. Amongst the interesting commercial-vehicle models is the latest Schneider, of which 627 are reported ts.) be on order for the Paris General Omnibus Co.
Why the Tubes Fill.
The London Bridge-Turnham Green motorbus service of the L.G.O. Co. is poorly maintained, and we continue to receive complaints from readers with regard to it. They particularly deplore that in the micidle of the evening it is no uncommon thing to have to wait for 25 minutes in Holborn Circus for an east-bound bus on that route. A member of the " C.M." staff on Monday last tested this complaint and waited 20 minutes before a vehicle arrived, and his request to the conductor for information as to the delay, elicited the reply, " Twenty minutes, is that all?" Sympathetic, but not explanatory!
" CommenCar " Sales.
The sales of " Commer-car " chassis and complete vehicles, for public-passenger and other services where "live" loads have to he conveyed, for the month of December, included the following ; Twenty-three-seated chars-it-hancs. -One for the Aldershot and Farnborough 13us Co. ; two (repeat orders) for a customer in the Canary Islands; one (repeat order) for Messrs. Grist and Co., of Torquay ; two (repeat or ders) for Commercial Car Hirers, Ltd. Y.C.-type chassis.-Two, with charsh-bancs bodies, for Ceylon.
Also, one private omnibus for Lord Lonsdale, per Messrs. Hamshaw, of Leicester.
Reduced from is, 9d.
We are informed that the return fare between Brighten and Worthing has been cut to is. 6:1. since September of last year. We reproduce a photograph of the latest vehicle to be put on this service by the Worthing Motor Service, Ltd. ; the body was built at the company's own works at Worthing.
Mortlake Makes Merry.
The first annual dinner and smoking concert of the employes of the Mortlake depot of the L.G.O. Co. will take place to-morrow (Friday) at the Shepherd's Bush Hotel. Mr. Johnston, the district engineer, will be in the chair.
Even the Clocks Stopped.
'All their eggs in one basket " was our comment in an editorial which we published in our issue for the 8th of October, 1908. On that occasion we drew attention to the serious inconvenience to the public which resulted whenever the central power-generating. station for London's network of tubes. failed. For 35 minutes on Sunday again, the whole of the organization of many of London's underground railways was brought to a standstill, owing to the breakage. of a main steam pipe in the power station at Chelsea. Lifts, trains and clocks came to a. standstill and all the electric lights were extinguished. It is a good thing. that this did not happen at a time when the tubes are crowded to twice their licensed capacity. Imagine 35. minutes in a City and South London carriage, which is built for 32 passengers, and which, in crush times, always carries 16 additional strap-hangers and 10 or 12 people in the caged platform suspended between the carriages. What a holocaust there will be some day on this line if a collision takes. place at crush times.