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Sheffield is novv in possession -if its first 40 h.p. Daimler motorbus, one of four on order.
The Simplex Rubber Co., Ltd., of Scrubbs Lane, Willesden Junction, has secured the contract to supply tires to the motorbuses which are in the service of the Loughborough Road Car Co., Ltd. The Metropolitan Asylums Board has decided to continue for a further three months its contracts with the Avon India Rubber Co., Ltd., the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., Englebert Tyres, Ltd., and the Shrewsbury and Challiner Tyre Co., Ltd., for the supply of tires. The Road Board continues negotiations with various London boroughs, and with the L.C.C., in regard to the allocations for London street improvements.
Swansea Town Council has granted a licence to Mr. Thos. Evans, Bryn SirioI, Fore stfach, to, run a motor conveyance in various parts of the town. It has been decided to allow only inotorcabs provided with taximeters to stand on the cab-ranks in the borough.
Woolwich Borough Council is to oppose the London County Council (Tramways, Trolley Vehicles and Improvements) Bill, which authorizes the L.C.C. to run trolley vehicles in a part of the borough, on the ground that the route selected is already suffieiently supplied with motorbuses between the tramway termini. The opinion is expressed that the County Council chose the route solely because it was thought to be a convenient one for such experimental purposes.
We hear good reports of Argyll motorbuses which are running between Stranraer and Drummore, and which vehicles belong to Mr. A. H. K. Henry; of Ardwell, Stratiraer.
Manchester Stupidity.
The L.G.B. has refused to sanction Manchester's proposed new by-laws for taxicabs. There is, therefore, hope yet that Manchester will go " all out for the combined time-and-distance recorder, instead of leaving it optional and insisting upon the retention of the right to hire by time alone, with
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sitions chaos and repeated upon 'hirers. If the Council could, as a body, be made to understand the meaning of recording services by combined time-and-distance mechanism, there would not be another week's delay. Cannot somebody get up in the Council, and describe the functions of the modern taximeter to the members in simple terms ? Were that done, we should see the essential change.