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Chatham Town Council pays two guineas a year to an inspector to examine the seven motorbuses for which it issues licences.
Tilling's new fleet of light petrolelectric motorbuses will be ready for service well before Whitsun. It is understood that the vehicles will he placed on the Sidcup route.
The names of several likely men to suit the post of managing-director-designate of London's pending new motorbus company are sent to us. Readers must guess at the identity ; we may not tell just yet.
We have several inquiries for motor chars-h-bancs for hire purposes in London during the months of May, June and July. Provincial owners who are prepared to send their vehicles to town for that period should write us. We shall have pleasure in handing on their letters to the interested parties.
Peace in Chatham.
Mr. W. F. French, of the Maidstone, Gravesend, Chatham and District Motor Omnibus Co., and Mr. T. J. Altree, of Road Motors, Ltd., have jointly informed the Chatham Town Council that they have arrived at an agreement with regard to the time-table that shall in future be observed on the Chatham-Maidstone route. There is now likely to be an end to the wasteful competition to which we have drawn attention in previous issues of this journal. We deal at sonic length, on the first two pages of this issue, with the situation that is likely to be created by the imminent flotation of a new motorbus company for London.
Belhaven Engineering and Motors, Ltd., of Wishaw, N.B., has sold a 28-32 11.p. Belhaven chassis, fitted with torpedo-char-a-bancs body, to Mr. R. Taylor, of Bannockburn, and a similar chassis,
with both torpedo-char-à-banes and lorry bodies, to Mr. .T. Douglas, of Wishaw.
Bromley's New Venture.
Requests for tenders for the supply of several new light singledeck buses will shortly be issued by the Bromley Motor Bus Co. Specifications set. forth reasonable delivery, and makers will have to guarantee that the machines will conform to Scotland Yard regulations. We are asked to mention that the company is not in the market for secondhand machines not for chars-it-banes.
Halliards for Malabar.
J. and E. Hall, Ltd., of Dartford, has secured an order, through Messrs. Richard Abenheim and Co., Hopetoun House, Lloyd's Avenue, E.C., for the nucleus of a small fleet of cars for Cochin on the Malabar Coast of India. The first order is for four machines, two of which will be double-deckers with first, second and third class accommodation, whilst the other two will be 40seated chars-a-bases. The vehicles are to be delivered to the Malabar Commercial Corporation, Ltd., and a passenger service is to be maintained %%lib them from Trivandrum, Travancore. The four vehicles are t) be shipped to the East. before the end of the present month.