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27th April 1926, Page 26
27th April 1926
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The Latest Doings and Developments in the Bus and Coach World.

WORCESTER'S TRAMS TO O.

The Authorities in Another Provincial Centre Promoting a Bill to Run Buses in their City and to Many Villages Outside It.

THE Worcester City. Council has definitely agreed to buy outright and at once the city tramway undertaking of the Worcester Electric Traction Co., Ltd., at a cost of £58,000, and the council is to decide immediately upon the future form of public transport to be used in the city. The tramway company's lease does not expire until March, 1929, but the present agreement having been reached, it will mean that the, city will get rid of the trams.

The citizens, although not ruling trolley-buses out of consideration, favour petrol omnibuses for all purposes of the

city's passenger transport. New services will be opened within the city boundary. Power is also being sought by means of the Corporation Bill, now before Parliament, to run omnibuses or trolley-buses for a distance of four miles outside the city boundary, to such villages as Kempsey, Fernhill Heath, Hallow, Powiek; Broadhead' and Bransford, so that facilities for communities are provided between districts which are, as the Mayor (Aid. AV. J. Hill) puts it, in reality offshoots of the city.

The Birmingham and Midland Omnibus Co., Ltd., and the G.W. and L.M.S. railways, have entered vigorous .opposition to the Bill. But the authority points out, in regard to this matter, that it is not intended to run long-distance services outside the city boundary, and that the Bill, when passed, will not give it any power to stop outside' services running into the city.

At a later meeting of the Parliamentary Bill Committee of the council it was decided, after considerable discussion, by 30 votes to 7, that having regard to the advice given by Mr. Alfred 'Baker (manager of ad Birmingham Corporation Tramways organization) the .committee should, withcelt prejudice, inform the council that it was in favour of the adoption of a trolleyvehicle system for Worcester along the

routes of the existing tramways and light railways, and, when the necessity arises, along the new routes described in the Bill as deposited, with power to apply for a provisional order from the Ministry of Transport to extend the system into the county. The committed also suggested that power should be obtained to run motor omnibuses within the city and in the county along any routes for which no suitable or sufficient service is, for the time being, in existence.

Mr. Alfred Baker estimates that 14 new vehicles involving an expenditure of £1,600 each—a total of £22,400—will be required if the council adopts trolley-buses or, in the case of petrol buses, the cost is estimated at £1,500 each, or a total of £21,000.


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