Extensive Irish Railway Road Service.
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The extent to which Irish railway companies are absorbing the various bus organizations was indicated last week in the Northern Ireland House of Commons, when the Minister of Home Affairs stated that since the traffic agreement came into operation almost a year ago 16 bus undertakings, involving; in all, 25: routes, had been acquired by the railway coMpanies. It is said 'that the railway companies have absorbed all the bus Services Working between Belfast and Holywood.
Describes a Tilling-Stevens Product.
A catalogue which gives particulars of the 1930 Express gear-driven-type chassis produced by Tilling-Stevens Motors, Ltd.; of Maidstone, has recently reached us. Although the catalogue deals chiefly with mechanical features of the chassis, it is of more than ordinary interest because the technical matter is interspersed with extremely fine pen-and-ink drawings by Mr. Frank Patterson, whose drawings have occasionally been published in our columns. The catalogue also embodies sketches of chassis details and the list of principal dimensions, together with shipping dimensions and weights, should prove most useful.
Co-ordinated BUS Licensing in Wales.
The Ammanford Warm.) Urban District Council is to convene a meeting of the Carmarthenshire bus-licensing authorities, to consider the coordinated issue of bus licences by a joint committee of the councils agreeing to such a proposal.
Popularizing Britain's Coach Services in America.
A special American edition of the Highways Guide for the autumn, published by Highways Guide, Ltd., Mitre House, Fleet Street, London, E.C.4, is said to be the first serious attempt to popularise Great Britain's motor-coach services on the other side of the Atlantic. We are told that copies of the B10 book are being sent gratis to all American tourist agents in time for their 1930 travel arrangements. As many of our readers may be aware, the Guide constitutes a handbook and time-table of long-distance coach services.
Friends of the Clayton Dewandre Co., Ltd., enjoyed a delightfully informal evening on Tuesday last, when the company gave a little dinner party at the Waldorf Hotel to celebrate its first birthday anniversary. There was a good deal of wit flying so that speeches were restricted, but appreciations of the Dewandre brake and the men " boosting " it were expressed in no uncertain manner.
Chief designers of many important chassis-manufacturing concerns were present, including General A. Huggins (Sunbeam), Mr. G. L. Rackliam
(A.E.C.), Mr. N. Endacott (Thornycroft), Mr. 11. W. Parsons (Dennis), Mr. E. B. Horne (Gil-ford), Mr. .T. A. Kemp (Mancislay) and others of no less importance and popularity. A Maudslay double-saloon bus conveyed the party to the Palladium and afterwards to the Piccadilly' Hotel cabaret, great amusement being caused when a violent application of the Dewanclre brake was called for in the Oxford Street traffic.
The Garner Range for 1930.
A catalogue which has recently been issued by Garner Motors, Ltd., Tyseley, Birmingham, gives brief details of the range of chassis manufactured by this well-known concern. Apart from normal and forward-control chassis of several capacities, a 2-2i-ton rigid sixwheeler arranged for forward control is also marketed ; some idea of the remarkable characteristics of the lastnamed are well portrayed by illustrations in the catalogue.
Abridged chassis specifications are ineluded for each model, whilst potential users are aided in the choice of suitable bodywork for a variety of trades by the numerous illustrations of different types of vehicle.
American Production and Export Figures.
During the first eight months of the present year 4,443,350 motor vehicles, including 612,305 commercial • vehicles, were produced in the American automobile industry, the comparable figures for 1928 being 3,236,864 and 378,734.
Foreign sales of American vehicles during the first seven mouths of 1929 totalled 715,134, in which figure 226,956 commercial vehicles are included; the latter figure is considerably higher than the corresponding figure for the Previous year, when, of course, production was much lower.
Sheffield's Refusals Upheld.
The Minister of Transport has decided not to make an Order on Sheffield Corporation in the matter of the appeal of Messrs. Barlow and Fisher against the refusal of the council to permit extension of the Sheffield-Ridge way bus service into the city. The Once again Olympia's doors have closed on the Commercial Motor Exhibition, but the memory of the remarkably fine exhibits of goods and passenger vehicles atthis year's event will not quickly be forgotten by those who visit ed the Show.
Minister has also decided not to make an Order in the matter of Mr. S. B. Hogg's appeal against the decision of the council in refusing licences for bus services to Leeds and Birmingham.
Linking Up Leeds Railway Stations.
The London and North Eastern Railway and the London, Midland and Scottish Railway companies have informed Leeds Corporation that they are unable to embarkon a scheme for linking up the railway stations in the city, as recommended by the corporation, but that they are considering a proposal for the improvement of the entrance to Wellington Station.
West Hartlepool and a Railway Proposal. .
In order to be able to work passenger road services between Middlesbrough and West Hartlepool over the Tees Road, the London and North Eastern Railway Co. is negotiating with West Hartlepool Corporation, which, for some time, has worked a remunerative service over the route. The railway company, it is understood, is proposing either to purchase the Corporation service or to work a joint service. A short time ago it approached the corporation on the same subject but no agreement was reached.