SIX-CYLINDER OILERS SUPREME
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" IS it true that there is a tendency 1 for motorbus operators to go back from six-cylindered engines to fourcylinclered engines? " was a question asked at the meeting of the Manchester, LiverpOol and District Section of the Institute Of Transport, following an addreSs by -Dr: K. G. Fenelon, who spOke .on the subject . of • passengertransport problems; with special' 'refer
ence to suburban travel. •
Mr. C: S. Percy, of Leyland Motors, Ltd., declared that statistics-of his -own concern were definitelY indicative of th3 increasing popularity of the sixcylindered Unit.
When it came to the question of petrol versus oil, the production of petrol' erigihes for ,passenger vehicles eqUalled 15 per cent: and 85 per cent. oil. There were' certain congested areas with many. stopping places where the four-cylindered engine' could compete with the six-cylindered unit, but where services were extensive and involved long-distance journeys, the latter form of engine was pre-eminent.
There had been controversy in Leicester on the subject of trolleybuses versus motorbuses. The tramways manager recommended the adoption of oil engines, but vested interests in the electricity industry disagreed. It had been suggested that electrical engineers were endeavouring, so far as they could, to limit the use of oil and. even petrol for local transport services.
In Bolton, electricity was relatively dear, but the Lancashire United Transport, Co. could prodUce. electricity at such a 'low price that the company could operate trolleybuses almost as cheaply as oil-engined buses.
STATION FOR LANCASTER.
LA...NCASTER Corporation has aci, cepted the tender of Messrs. Thompson and Morris, of Lancaster, at £7,113, for the erection of a central bus station, with platforms.
OWNERS' LIABILITY: APPEAL TO LORDS?
THE Court of Appeal has decided that Mr. Justice Hawke was wrong in holding that the doctrine of common employment did not apply in a case in which Eric Charles Radcliffe, of Adlam Road, Liverpool, a bus driver, was killed owing to the negligent driving of a fellow bus driver named Jones.
Both men were employed by Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., Preston. Radcliffe was crushed between his own bus and one driven by Jones.
Mrs. Ellen Veronica Radcliffe, wife of the dead man, was awarded £1,579 damages at Liverpool Assizes by Mr. Justice Hawke, who held that the circumstances were such that the doctrine of common employment did not apply so as to absolve the employer from liability. Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., challenged this decision.
In Lord Justice Greer's view, Jones and Radcliffe were in the service of a common employer, engaged in common work, and were, therefore, brought within the exception to liability which had been established by the doctrine of common employment, The appeal was allowed with costs.
Lord Justice Scott and Mr. Justice Luxmoore agreed.
Leave to appeal to the House of Lords was given.
ELECTORS SUPPORT GATESHEAD BILL.
AT a meeting of local-government electors at Gateshead, it was decided to support the Bill promoted by the town council to take over the undertaking of the Gateshead and District Tramways Co., and to introduce trolleybuses in the area.
It was announced that the tramwaysv concern is also promoting a Bill, which proposes the operation of trolleybus services only on the present tram routes.
Ald. T. Peacock foreshadowed a through service of trolleybuses to Newcastle. He said that the company was not willing to sell, hut unless the corporation took its present opportunity, it would never have another chance to acquire the undertaking.
TROLLEYBUSES FOR GLASGOW
GLASGOW Transport Committee has been asked by Bailie Victor D. Warren to instruct a sub-committee to report on the advisability of instituting, as an experiment, a trolleybus service. With the cheap current available, Glasgow Transport Department should, he said, he able to operate this type of vehicle even more economically than London Transport.
DAIMLERS FOR BOMBAY.
AFLEET of Daimler 58-seater buses, with Gardner 5LW oil engines, is being placed in service by the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport Co.