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AN EMERGENCY EXIT CONCESSION
DRAFT regulations amending the Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness) Regulations, 1941, have been circulated to associations, etc., for their observations. If issued in final form, they will permit, in the case of vehicles registered before January 1, 1947', the provision of a window as an emergency exit for the lower part of a double-decker. The dimensions must
not be less than those prescribed for a similar exit from the upper deck.
In such a vehicle having a rear platform, the emergency exit must not be less than 5 ft. by 1 ft. 6 ins. This must be provided from the rear platform to the rear of the vehicle if there be an exit enclosed by a door on the near side of the rear platform, or there can be a door-less exit from the platform to the near side of the vehicle continuous with a door-less exit to the rear of the vehicle.
FROM ROAD TRANSPORT TO WASHING.
AN increase in its laundry interest has been made by the British Electric Traction Co., Ltd., it. having taken over the whole shareholding of Kingston and Partners, Ltd., which ran
the Castle Laundry, Wandsworth, London, S.W. Other interests in this direction controlled by the R.E.T. are Laundry Services, Ltd,, and the White Line Laundry, Ltd.
USEFUL BOOK FOR P.S.V. STUDENTS
FOR &cane time our contemporary, " Bus and Coach," has published an interesting feature called "Students' Corner." A series of articles concerning road passenger-transport operation which appeared there has, with revisions and additions, been issued as a book entitled " Bus Operation," the author being Mr. L. D, Kitchin, A.M.Inst.T. It deals with basic procedure in the working of bus and coach undertakings and covers the diploma course of the Royal Society of Arts and advanced Institute of Transport examinations. It is published by lliffe and Sons, Ltd., Dorset House. Stamford Street, London, S.E.1, at 10s. 6d., plus 4d. postage.
LEIGH FARES HIGHER?
I T is learned that Leigh Transport Department has decided to apply for its first increase in fares, apart from a service operated jointly with Bolton. ARTICULATED GIANT IN DENMARK
CONS1DERABLE attention in Denmark is now focused on the novel 80-passenger Leyland-D.A.B. bus which the Danish State Railways have put in service on their busiest route between Copenhagen, Greve Strand and Koge. The bus was illustrated and described in
The Commercial Motor" dated July 11.
Weighing over 20 tons laden and costing only a third more than a normal 30-seater single-deck, bus it can cruise at 40 m.p.h. with 56 passengers seated and 24 standing comfortably.
The tractor portion has been built by Leyland Motors, Ltd., and is powered by a 130 b.h.p. six-cylindered oil engine.
The interior of the bus is well ventilated and heated, the heating being derived from hot water from the engine circulation system and passing through ribbed radiator tubes installed throughout the body. Heating for the driver's cab is taken from the exhaust.
3,375-MILE CONTINENTAL TOUR BY BRITISH COACH
A BEDFORD 27-seater coach oper1-1 ated by Messrs. Beacon Motor Services, Crowborough, Sussex, has just completed a 3,375-mile tour through France, Spain and Portugal. It is believed to have been the first British coach to enter Spain since the war.
Visits were made to the famous shrines at Lourdes, in France, and Fatima, in Portugal. No British coach had ever before travelled to Fatima or Lisbon, state Messrs. Beacon Motor Services. .
LONDON TRANSPORT SETS UP NEW SAFETY RECORD
A RECORD number of London /-1 Transport drivers has this year won the awards of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents for safe driving extending over 25 years or more. Ninety-three London motorbus, trolleybus and tram drivers have qualified for 'the Society's bronze cross (25 years) and bronze badge (over 25 years), compared with 66 last year.
A motorbus and a trolleybus driver have both driven for 29 years without accident.