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Some of the members of the Chesterfield Town Council are perturbed by the popularity of the public-service motor vehicles, which ply for hire between that town and Clay Cross ; they complain of overcrowding. Similar complaints with regard to the local tramcars receive no consideration.
Great -Eastern Results.
The fifth ordinary general meeting of the shareholders of the Crept Eastern London Motor Omnibus Co.. Ltd., which is fixed to take place today (Thursday) at 12 o'clock noon, at Winchester House, Old Broad Street, E.G., promises to be an interesting function. This company has 100,000 deferred shares of Is. each. with a face value of £5,000-not 5,000 shares. _These are, after careful deliberation, to be converted into 10.000 ordinary shares of 13 each. In spite of the fact that this will probably guarantee a dividend to the holders forthwith, in place of their possibly having to wait several years for any dividend under the old terms of holding, we consider it highly expedient that the deferred shares should be extinguished, together with the special privileges which attach to them. After writing off £6,500 for depreciation, in respect of the twelve months ended the 30th June last, the company's motorbuses will stand in the balance sheet at only 4.251,159. They are in Al order. New Service Wanted.
" The Extractor," in his " Out and Home" columns on page 535 of this issue, complains of the personal inconvenience to which he has been subjected on account of the omission of some Loudon omnibus company to run a fast motorbus service between Picea
dilly Circus and Victoria. It is not likelythat such a short route would commend itself to proprietors in these days, but it should he quite feasible to divert some existing long-distance service, in order to cover what should undoubtedly prove a profitable stretch of " new road " for the future. The motorbus services, which have recently been established in Odessa, are reported to be doing well.
A Chance to Oust Electricity.
The Tramways Committee of the Keighley Town Council has recently endeavoured to secure authority to send a deputation somewhere on the Continent to inspect and report upon existing systems of trackless-tramcar services. The possibility of the employment of motorbuses upon the ex
tended routes, which are under contemplation by the Keighley Council, has received scant eonsideration, in spite of the fact that it is admitted that further development of the existing ordinary tramway system should not be made onhesitatingly„ owing to the success of the Council's motorbus service. In such cases as those of Keighley and Weymouth— to mention two recent instances only, it would appear to be expedient that the industry generally should adopt some definite propagandist methods, ill order to place all the admitted claims of the motorbus concisely before these. authorities. The Editor's paper, entitled " Alotor Omnibus or Electric Tramcar," which was read before the recent. International Road Congress at Brussels, should constitute a useful. educational factor in this respect. We a re aware that THE COMMERCIAL. MOTOR is read by several important members of both the Keighley and the Weymouth Town Councils, but this isonly the thin end of the wedge. Tramway exploitation has always been conducted in a thoroughly-energetic manner, and this needs to be met.