Buses to Replace I.o.M. Railways
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rOMPREHENSIVE recommendations made in a. report by a committee on Insular Transport were adopted by the Isle of Man Tynwald recently. The most important finding of the committee was that the Island's railways should be abandoned and that road services should be substituted. Moreover, the committee recommended that a serious endeavour should be made to co-ordinate the passenger services of the four main transport-operators.
Disappointment was expressed by one member of the Tynwald that the committee had not recommended that all transport in the island should be placed under one central control. The committee had taken the view, it was stated, that everything should be done to encourage private enterprise:
Other findings of the-committee 'were that a bus station should he built in Douglas and that bus shelters, paid for by the Government and maintained by the Highway Board, shotfid•be provided.
SMITHFIELD SHOW ON, NOVEL LINES
AT a pre-Show meeting. last Friday, Col. J. Jqhnson, C.B.E., D.S.O., chairman of the Sniithfield Show Joint Committee, said that there would be at the Show a combination of interests working on novel lines.
The Smithfield Club, the Agricultural Engineers' Association and the Society of 'Motor Manufacturers and Traders had organized an annual exhibition of their products in a manner which had not been done before. He emphasized that it was an international show,. although mainly British, and that the agricultural machinery business here had a productive' capacity probably far in excess of possible requirements. Consequently, a large -export market must be secured and maintained.
Sir William Rootes emphasized the importance of increasing exports of machines.
Capt. E. N. Griffith, 'president of the A.F.A., said that with one-fifth of its farm acreage, there were more tractors in the -United Kingdom than were used in the whole of Canada:
[An illustrated fareeast of vehicle, tractor and accessory exhibits appears • on pages 472-4781