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Each of the Metropolitan steam omnibuses consumes on an average about 28 gallons of paraffin per day.
If the directors of the London General Omnibus Co. recommend a conservative dividend of. say, six per cent, on the Ordinary Stock, they will consolidate an improving position and add to the value of the shareholders' property.
At a Coroner's inquest in connection with the death of a little boy, who had been killed by falling off the back of a motorbus, on to which he had mounted whilst it was being shunted at the terminus, the foreman of the jury added the following rider to the verdict of accidental death :-" We are of opinion that, when motorbuses are being backed, there should be someone in attendance for the purpose of preventing unauthorized persons from getting on to the back of such vehicles."
The Tramways Manager of Bradford has prepared a report on the working of the trolleybus system in that. city. The experimental section is reported to have experienced no setback whatever, but we understand that the traffic receipts that, have been secured on it have not come up to expectations. The Tramways Committee, acting upon the report of the engineer, has decided to recommend the equipment of a further 11 miles with the same system at a total capital expenditure of £26,h00 and an annual charge of £2,200.
In our issue for the 14th of this month, we record a decision to wind up the Mid-Derbyshire Motorbus Co., Ltd. We are informed, in this connection, by Commercial Car. Hirers, Ltd., that the service of " Commer Cars," which it has maintained. between Alfreton and Chesterfield since February, 1910, has always been successful and has been gradually improving from the commencement of operations. The company, which is now to disappear, was a local opposition con
cern and ran over another route between _ Claycross and Chesterfield. Commercial Car Hirers, Ltd., is securing more new chassis and bodies in order to make further extensions to this service.
The Town Clerk of Southend has requested Commercial Car Hirers, Ltd., which company has applied to the Highways Committee for permission to run a motorbus service in the town, to send further particulars for the consideration of the local authorities.
Late in the Day.
A number of the householders in West End Lane is putting forward complaints with regard to the motorbus traffic in that thoroughfare. They claim that there is no need for such travelling faeilities, that the new vehicles take customers away from the local shopping centre, and that house property in the district is rapidly deteriorating on these accounts. Pleas of this kind have, of course, been only too familiar in the past few years, but, as a rule, the vested interests have eventually had to suffer for the public good, The Editor of the " Hampstead Advertiser" suggests that, if the local inhabitants consider the annoyance to be a really serious one; they should combine to boycott the motors.