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The report of the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., states that the accounts for the year ending 31st December last show a profit of £1,063 on the year's working. The company now runs no motorbuses.
A small company has now been registered in order to promote a public motor service between Bromley, Farnborough and the surrounding district. The name of this new concern is to be The Bromley Motor Bus Co., Ltd., and its capital is to be £5,000.
The National Steam Omnibus Co. last Sunday ran an eight-minute service between Oxford Circus and Sidcup in opposition to Tillings on that route, and it is anticipated that the National Company will continue this service on Sundays during the coming summer months.
Albion Bus in Cobalt.
A user of a 12-seated Albion motorbus which has been running in Cobalt, Canada, since May last, writes to the company to say that he is particularly pleased with the work 'which the car has done, notwithstanding . the rough nature of the roads over which it is used, which roads are particularly hard upon both tires and springs. The vehicle in question, although constructed to carry 12 passengers, frequently carries double that number, many of the passengers electing to hang on to the wings and footboards rather than he left to do the journey by horse-drawn vehicles. This is the first motor
vehicle in Cobalt, and is used for maintaining a service to some mines six miles distant.
Tillings Stick to Horses.
The report issued at the fourteenth annual general meeting of Thomas Tilling, Ltd., on the 20th of this month, was of a satisfactory nature. The net profit for the year amounts to 232,900, as against 219,700 for the previous year. Attention is drawn to the fact that
the company's horse stock has for the first time for several years been increased.
Obstructing Trees.
The London General Omnibus Co. has extended its service, No. 18, in a southerly direction to Tulse Hill. This route now runs over Denmark Hill past Ruskin Park and Brockwell Park. The omnibus company had, previous to this extension, served notices upon a number of owners and occupiers of houses on Denmark Hill and Herne Hill whose trees overhang. the roadway, requesting that the branches should be lopped, in older to enable the omnibuses to pass.
A correspondent states that the following motorbus route would be a very-useful one to a large number of people : Waterloo, Westminster Bridge, Victoria Street, Buckingham Palace Road, Sloane
Square, Knightsbridge,High Street, Kensington, Notting Hill
Gate, Queen's Road, Royal Oak, Bishop's Road, Paddington and.i Marylebone Road.
New Registrations.
Macfarlane (Glasgow) Ltd., with_ a capital of 28,000 to carry on the. business of proprietors of motorbuses, etc. Registered office : 20, Berkeley Street, Glasgow.
Torquay Chelston Steam Car Co.,. Ltd., with an authorized capital of 21,000 in 21 shares, and with its. office at 9, Fleet Street, Torquay, to carry on the business indicated by the title.