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The arrangements for Torquay's new motorbus service are well in hand.
Tillings first new petrol-electric bus is now in service on the Oxford Circus-Sidcup route.
Instead of Hiring.
The Tramways Committee of the Perth Town Council has asked for a. further report from its officials as to the expediency of purchasing a motorbus for service between Perth and Ahnondbank ; at present this is maintained by a machine which is hired by the Council.
A Registration.
Burmar Motor Co., Ltd., with an authorized capital of 21,000 in 21 shares, and with its office at St. Nicholas Street, Scarborough, to carry on the business of motorbus and cab proprietors, also manufacturers and dealers in motorcars, etc. First directors : C. Burnett and W. L. Mart
Special Services in Cornwall.
The Great Western Railway Co. ran additional motor vehicles in connection with the Royal Cornwall Show at St. Austell a fortnight ago, and the ordinary service into the district was augmented. Nine cars were run between the railway station and the Show as well as over the ordinary daily routes. We are informed that this is the largest concentration of public-service vehicles which has yet taken place in the county of Cornwall on emergency duty such as this.
En Plein Air Partout.
Further evidence of the activity of the publicity department of the London General Omnibus Co. is afforded by the publication of a useful little cloth-bound guide containing full particulars of the company's services and the now familiar map ; the whole of this publication being in French. The significance of this new enterprise on the part of London's premier omnibus company is emphasized by the fact of the undertaking's original French capitalization. The latest guide is published by Nilsson and Co., Ltd., Librairie Fraricaise, 16-18, Wardour Street, W., and is being circulated amongst the many visitors from over the Channel who are at present in England.
r Helps the Royal; Mail.
An Albion motor char-a-banes has recently been placed in service between Blairgowrie and girkmichael. The car makes three double journeys a day. The postal facilities of the district have been greatly improved on account of this new enterprise ; the G.P.O. authorities now make use of the new vehicles for mail transport.
Extensions in Edinburgh.
The Scottish Motor Traction Co., Ltd., recently invited a party of its friends to the opening of its new garage in East Fountainbridge, Edinburgh. The Lord Provost of that city performed the short inaugural ceremony. The operating company now undertakes the collection and distribution of the Royal Mails in various districts. The new premises are well-equipped with smithy, engineering, machine, body repairing, painting and other shops. An up-to-date acetylene-welding plant forms part of the equipment, The Talkative Fare Sex.
Complaints have been raised as to the noise that is made by girls and women while they are being -conveyed to the factories of Foster Clarke and Co. at Maidstone on the motorbuses which serve the Maidstone-Chatham route.
Recent "Cornmer-Car" Deliveries.
Amongst the Conamer-Car passenger vehicles which were sold during the four weeks ending the Oth June were: three 20-seaters for Colombo ; one 15-seater for Grist Bros., Torquay ; one 20-seater for the Teignmouth Car Co. ; and three 28-seaters and two 15-seaters for Commercial Car Hirers, Ltd. ; all these are repeat orders. iv-i• • An Untimely Erid.t The New Peverell Road Car Co., Ltd., is to be wound up voluntarily. At a meeting of the shareholders in Devonport a few days ago, it was resolved that the company could not, by reason of its liabilities, con tinue its business. Mr. Percival White, accountant, has been appointed liquidator. It is interestingto recall that. those who were responsible for the initiation of this company, expressed their desire tl secure the services of an expert from THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR staff
to advise them as to the proposed organization, but for various reasons the directors did not, in the end, consider it worth their while to avail themselves of such assistance.
Llandudno Public Services. Mr. F. A. Wilkes, who until lately had for a long while held an important position with the Wolseley Tool and Motor Car Co., Ltd., at the Adderley Park Works, Birmingham, has assumed the management. of the Llandudno Motor and Garage Co., Ltd., Argyll Road, Llandudno. This business is by far the largest of its kind in North Vales and is now well-established
after five years of operation. Its present char-a-bancs fleet consists of five Dennis vehicles which are all doing excellent service on the different. routes in the district.
The Llandudno Automobile Touring Co. has completed the erection of a large garage in that town in proximity to the Grand Theatre. The company's business is under the direction of Mr. George W. Browne, who was formerly in the service of Friswells' Ltd. The vehicles belonging to this concern are known as the Silver Motor Coaches. Members of the Llandudno Master Builders' Association recently had an outing on one of these machines.