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rHE possibility that the discharge of fumes from buses was a cause of ung and throat cancer, was put foryard as a basis for objection to the eplacement of trams by buses on the :cclesall—Middlewood route, Sheeld, before the Yorkshire Licensing tuthority last Weak.
Mr. J. 'Neilson, representing the heffield Tramways Development Assoiation, spoke of a petition against the onversion said to be signed by 11.250 2:sidents in the districts concerned. Mr. .. C. Moore, general manager of the :ansport department, said that the bandonment of five miles of track vuld save £20,000 a year. No change t fares was proposed. The application as granted.
The Bristol Tramways and Carriage o.. Ltd., was fined £3 at Bristol last cek for permitting the use of a auble-decker which was emitting icessive exhaust smoke. The company eaded guilty.
Police Supt. P. Sandford said that the :haust pipe of the bus -was on the off de and smoke was being forced ;ainst a wall and billowed back. For e company. Mr. T. D. Corpe said at the vehicle in question was a little ,erdue for major overhaul. Bristol
• amways were doing everything they uid to avoid unnecessary smoke.
RAILWAYS RESPONSIBLE FOR MORE C-LICENSEES 7HEN the House of Commons disr cussed proposed increases in railty charges last week, Sir David )bertson claimed that British Railys were largely responsible for the :rease in C-licensed vehicles. He said that he had to buy lorries
• a coal business because rail transrt could not be afforded. " None'of
wants to be in the transport lustry," he said, "but we are forced o it by mounting charges. We can
these vehicles one way and bring at back empty, in competition with tish Railways, and make a profit." ['he Minister of Transport referred the danger of the railways "pricing mselves out of business," but men-led the railways' new freedom to ke competitive charges.
DEPUTATION ON DISPOSAL HE deputation from the Road Haulage Association which last :k made representations on disposal the British Transport Commission ; received by Sir Brian Robertson, d Rusholme and Maj.-Gen. G. N. ;sell. The Association's delegates e Mr. Bernard Winterbottom, onal chairman, Mr. J. Barrie, Mr.
H. Sparrow, Mr. J. H. Male, Mr. G. Crowther and Mr. R. Morton chell.
s reported last week, the deputapressed for the acceptance by the -mission of the highest of any three
tenders submitted for a transport unit. A similar case had already been made to the Road Haulage Disposal Board.
LEEDS TRAM CONVERSION PLANS IT is planned that all tram services in .1 west Leeds will be 'converted to motorbus operation by March next year. After April 3, 1954, the only trams in west Leeds will be those running to Whingate and New Inn. On that date, the Kirkstall AbbeyCompton Road tram service will be converted.
In 1955-56, tram services from Briggatc to Headingley, West Park and Lawnswood are to he abandoned and there will then be no tram services in Boar Lane or through the City Square.
Bus stands are being put up in Rockingham Street for use until a new station at the junction of Woodhouse Lane, Merrion Street and Wade Lane is completed.
"THE MOTOR" YEAR BOOK, 1954
TECHNICAL developments in car design during the past year, together with specifications of all the world's new models, are given in "The Motor" Year Book, /954, published by Temple Press Ltd., Bowling Green Lane, London, E.C.1, at 15s. (15s. 9d. by post).
Summaries of 1953 races and rallies are included. The book is lavishly illustrated.
FIRE UNITS FOR KARACHI TENDERS for the supply of three petrol-engined fire appliances, with telescopic ladders, are required by the Chief Engineer, Karachi Port Trust, Karachi, Pakistan, by May 12. A 1.000-gallon foam-generating tender is also required. Details can be obtained from the Export Services Branch. Board of Trade, Lacon House, Theobalds Road, London, W.C.I.