Result of a Newcastle Bus Appeal.
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• The Ministry of Transport has now announced its decision with reference to the official inquiry held at Newcastle on July 27th (reported in a recent issue of The Commercial Motor) into the appeal of the Tynemoutli and District Electric Traction Co., Ltd., against the refusal of the Newcastle Corpdration Watch Committee to issue licences for 17 omnibuses in order to permit the company to extend its existing MonkseatonWallsend service through into the city of Newcastle.
The Ministry has refused to grant the application made by the company, thereby upholding the action of the licensing authority, a step which is being interpreted on Tyneside as a desire on the Dart of the Ministry to extend to tramways authorities some measure of protection against growing
omnibus traffic. This competition is
especially keen in the Newcastle district, During last year the municipal tramways carried over seven million fewer passengers as compared with previous years, most of whom, it is believed, were. claimed by private bus undertakings operating over routes served by the corporation tramcars.
Institute of Metals Journal.
Volume 37 of the Journal of the Institute of Metals has recently been published and, as has always been the case, it comprises a mass of metallurgical information of both practical and theoretical interest. It is a voluminous publication—it runs to 834 pages and has 75 plates and numerous other illustrations—and is published at the price of 31s. 6d. net. Many definite lines of thought are opened up by the
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17 original papers that appear in the present volume, amongst these being contributions by Australian, Japanese and German metallurgists. Part of the volume is made up of metallurgical abstracts, numbering several thousand, culled from the world's literature dealing with the subject which has been published since the beginning of the year.
Recent Guy Orders.
MUnicipalities are big users of Guy vehicles, and to the list of authorities which are employing machines of this mike has recently been added the name of the Lincoln Corpdration, which is buying two 26-seater single-deckers. In addition, Guy Motors, Ltd., Fallings Park, Wolverhampton, has recently received repeat orders from other municipal authorities, these including the Corporations of Barrow-inFurness.and Ashton-under-Lyne, which are each buying 2Ceseater buses, as well as the Oldham Corporation, -Which has placed an erder for a 72-seater sixwheeled bus.
On the goods side the company has orders in hand for Watney, Combo. Reid and Co., Ltd., Which is buying 1-tonners, and for L'xiithd Dairies (London), Ltd., this being for a 3-tonner.
Insuring Passengers Against the • . Risk of Accidents.
The postal authorities in Germany,• which run a large number of regular motorbus services in all parts of the country, have recently introduced an insurance policy against accidents for the
benefit of its patrons. A system of supplying ten tickets, available for use at any time within two months, at a reduction of 20 per cent, on the usual fares has also been adopted..