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LOOKING BACK 15 YEARS.

3rd May 1921, Page 18
3rd May 1921
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Page 18, 3rd May 1921 — LOOKING BACK 15 YEARS.
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IN THE middle of the year Motor 1945 the London County Ambulances Council lost its Bill for Preferred. flic provision of horsed ambulances within the Metropolitan area. It was obvious that horsed vehicles were fast becoming obsolete for such service where speedy and efficient means of removing an injured person were of vital importance. • Accordingly; the Corporation of the City of London resolved to proceed, at that time, with its scheme for equipping a self-propelled ambulance system for the City. Horsevehicles for ambulance duty now belong to a bygone age, and there is little doubt that the well-organized motor ambulance services operating in many of the big towns throughout the country have been responsible for the saving of many lives, by affording the means for the expeditious removal of the injured to hospital for medical attention.

„, INDICATIONS were not Passenger wanting in 1906 that motor Traffic omnibuses werewell able Competition to hold their own in face of other competing systems of passenger

transport. Electric traction haa• its particular sphere of operation, whilst there were many cases where the motorbus could not show a superior financial result, especially having regard to the state of public opinion which then existed and ge condition of many of the road stiraces.

Notwithstanding the outcry against the use of buses hi London, which was brought about by a peculiar combination of circumstances, the revenue side-of the accounts of many operating concerns continued to show a most healthy condition. This experience was not by any means limited to London, for the managers of many country services found themselves wholly unable to cope with the traffic which was then offering.

,., THERE was a growing tenRestricting dency in 1906 on the part of Bus many local councils, possibly. Licences. due to the Press agitation against motor omnibuses in London, to lay down stringent conditions in connection with the issuing of licences. Steps were taken by the Motor Van, Wagon, and Omnibus Users' Association to ad

vance all possible arguments to satisfy the Government that an appeal to the , Local Government Board or other central authority should be allowed in cases of the unreasonable withholding of licences. .Where licences were issued unnecessary reservations were often made, and the fallowing clause is typical of many which were enforced.

"If the residents on the line of route over which the bus passes in this district petition the council that a nuisance is being caused by the bus arising from the spend at which the bus goes, the council reserves to itself the right to cencel the licence at any time."

Although opposition is now occasionIly raised by some local authorities against the operation of motorbuses chiefly on.the score of the damage which they maintain is done to the roads, the only petitioning that is nowadays carried out by local residents is in support of the establishment of bus services, and especially by those who live in ruralareas unserved by other Means of • passenger tra-nspor'


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