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Municipal Preference n NE important fact which for the Oil Engine .1/4-jemerges from a close study
for Buses of our Analysis of Municipal Bus Fleets, published in last week's special issue, is that the oiler is well entrenched in the realm of municipal passenger transport. Not only axe hundreds of such vehicles in everyday use by local authorities, but of the many buses on order a high proportion is oil-engine equipped. With other people's money to play with., municipalities are in a unique position for experimenting, hut, so far as the oiler is concerned, ratepayers can have no qualms as to the wisdom dis.: played in the early adOption for passenger service of the latest form of prime mover.
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Railway Shareholder IT is a little unusual to find Complains of Traffic 'railway shareholders con Court Expenditure . P
laining of the tactics adopted
by the companies in their fight to quell road transport-j A correspondent to the Glasgow Herald, who • signs himself "A Railway Shareholder," suggests, however, that the railways might find something better to do with their money than expend large sums in legal costs in the Traffic Courts and Appeal Tribunal. He supports the suggestion that licences should be automatically renewed so long as there has been no alteration. in the business,: or infringement of the regulations, and he affirms that; i such a move would be in the best interest of th,6.1, railway shareholders. Both Partners A STORY from Aberdeen Wanted to Handle 1Th concerns two ex-employees the Money . of the transport department of
that city. They had a little capital and were said to have been.successful in obtaining a P.S.V. licence for a single-bus service in an outlying suburb of the city. On the eventful morning of the opening of the service the partners arrived at the garage where the bus was housed, each of them resplendent in a conductor's uniform!
A New Method of VERYONE is concerned
Analysing Road Acel1-4with the problem of road
dents accidents, but how the respon sibility for these has been distributed amongst different classes of road user,and how varying conditions and new regulations have been reflected in the figures, have never been shown over a period of weeks, months and years. For this reason Mr. Graham Cunningham, chairman and
managing director of the Triplex Safety Glass Co., Ltd., 1, Albemarle Street, London, Wi, has produced a statistical analysis of road accidents, which is of unusual interest. The author has devised a new method of graphical analysis, which gives a better comparison. He concludes this by stating that pedestrians appear to be the sole or main cause of the highest percentage of fatal road accidents. Copies of the analysis may be obtained, gratis, on application to the company.
Ontario's Goods-vehirOMMERCIAL VEHICLE
de Operators Should operators in Ontario are Be Happy! . . pleased, for the Premier has announced a reduction of 25 per cent. in all licensing fees for goods vehicles and trailers, which will mean a saving of' some 1,000,000 dollars to 80,000 operators. The Premier pointed out that the farmers of Ontario have become increasingly dependent on commercial vehicles for the movement of their produce and livestock.