THE L.C.C. AND PARIS PRACTICE A MOVE TO RESCUE THE DISCREDITED TRAMCAR.
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The L.C.C. has, as we have already reported, called in M. Manage, the working head of the Paris Ueneral Omnibus Co., to advise it in respect of certaiii problems by which those who are responsible for the Council's tramcar undertaking are confronted. We wish, in this connection, again to emphasize the fact that conditions in Paris are not generally applicable to conditions in London. The evils of selection from conditions in either city may be of
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the two cases, as a ho!e, are not comparable without numerous allowances and ic si ii The intentions of the L.C.C. will no doubt be unfolded by degrees: they are undeniably concerned with a situation which has been brought about by the me:itanding suceass of motorbuses in the Metropolie i'er the present, we are content to record that M. Mariage has been a, close student of motorbus prodress for many years. We recall his participation in stone of the earlier French trials, and the deep interest which he evinced in the motorbus section of the tests which were made, under the auspices of the Automobile Club of France, in the year 1005. The omnibus class (V A) of those trials was conducted in eminmetion with the Paris General Omnibus Co_ anti M. Manage was present during. a portion of them, His company, of course, has in more-reeent years, and since the success of the L.G.O.C. itt Loo, don, become a. considerable owner of this type of vehicle, as well as of tranacuis. It was years behind London in taking effective action. We cannot believe that M. Manage will strengthen his reputation by remarks such as those which he is alleged to have made to the Paris correspondentof "The Daily Mail." We read in our contemporary that " in auswer to a question as to hew he had acquired his reputation as a man who does things and gets thins done, M. Mariage answered, 'I hava very strong will, and I am very determined. I plan things well before giving instructions, but when I say a thing has to be done in a certain way, that is the way it will be done. I have been 12 years with the Paris Omnibus Co., and before I constructed and put on the streets the 1000 tramway OM and WOO omnibuses which are running to-day I did the same thing in Boulogne, Amiens and Bordeaux.' " The egotism of this phraseology is of such a nature that
we are convinced M. Manage would wish to protest against it.
It appears to us that the calling in of M Mariago is reckoned by the L.C.C. to be the easiest way to perform a wottc Pre in regard to motorbuses. Sir John Bonn, who still pulls the pro-tramcar strings, has given indications of getting tired. That another scheme of rescue is to he launched we are convinced, and nobody can deny that the L.C.C. tramcar ventute wants lielp from somebody.