TROLLEY-BUSES IN BOMBAY.
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Notes Upon the Activities of the Local Transport Company; Keighley Corporation's -Undertaking Taken as a Model.
AT a recent meeting of Bombay CorPoration a letter was received froin the Government of Bombay asking for the views of the corporation on a letter from the general manager of the Bombay Electric 'Supply and Tramways. Co., Ltd., regarding the provisions for the conStruction and operation of trolley.
buses, as suggested bycompany.
The tramways concern stated that before suggesting provisions in the Bombay Tramways Act to provide for the construction and operation of trolleybuses, &Old they become desirable, it was nseary to make inquiries in England.
Practice in England varies considerably, as some trolley vehicles are operated by local authorities and others by joint-stock companies. The usual procedure is for the Ministry of Transport to make a provisional Order and for this subsequently to be confirmed by an Act of the legislature. The company enclosed a memorandum of the provisions in the Bombay Tramways Act, which the company suggests should be incorporated in the measure. They are taken from the Keighley Corporation (Trolley Vehicles) Order.
The municipal commissioner reported that provision with regard to the following points should be. incorporated in the Tramways Act :--(1) All vehicles should be equipped with pneumatic tyres ; (2) fares to be subject to the sanction of the corporation ; (3) way-leave rental for the trolley-bus overhead equipment or, as an alternative, rate per vehicle, according to seating capacity (4) power of the corporation to purchase the undertaking udder certain conditions.
.Thetramways _company suggested that the question as to the tyres for trolley-buses should be left to the dis-eretion of the municipal commissioner. ' As to fares, it Was considered that it would be equitable if the corporation would lay down only the maximum fare that shouldbe charged,
It was suggested that no way-leave rental for the necessary overhead equipment to be erected specially for the use of trolley-buses should be charged, but that such vehicles should be subject to wheel tax, on the standard basis.
In regard to the power of the corporation to purchase the undertaking on certain conditions, the terms, the com pany thought, should be the same as those applicable to the remaining inter ests vested in the company by the deed of concession, dated August 7th, 1905.