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A Hallford-Stevens petrol-electric (minibus has been at Blackpool this week, and Mr. Wm. A. Stevens is at the Queen's Hotel, South Shore, Blackpool.
The LI.G.O.C. is offering its 12 Clarkson vehicles for sale by private treaty, and also the converted Clarkson-do Dion chassis. Particulars will be found on the first page of our sundry advertisements.
The Leyton District Council having announced its intention to call for a return of accidents caused by motorbuses, a local correspondent has demanded a contemporary return for tramcars, so that there may be proper comparison.
A Tunbridge Wells 31rvice.
Three A.B.C. motorbuses have been purchased by the Autecar Co., of Woodbury Park Read, Tunbridge Wells, of which Mr. W. Oscar Pritchard is the general manager. It is intended to maintain a service between the L.B. and S.C. station and Southborough Common.
A Charge Dismissed.
A driver named Sidney John Hughes was acquitted, at the Central Criminal Court, on Saturday last, on a charge of manslaughter, the jury stopping the case. This man had the misfortune to run down a costermonger named Birdseye, who was wheeling his harrow along Maida Vale, on
tile 26th September. The police, who did not prefer the charge, gave Hughes an exemplary character.
Tramcar or Motorbus?
It occurs to us that a useful object might be served were the last annual balance-sheet of the • Eastbourne Corporation motorbus undertaking printed simultaneously with those of some municipal electric tramway system, such as Bournemouth, for instance, and were these comparative results sent to all municipal and other authorities who are contemplating the extension of existing urban transport facilities or the establishment of new ones. it might waken them up. We published the full Eastbourne results on the 17th June.