Ipswich lost £2,294 on its electric tramway undertaking during the past financial year.
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The Great Eastern London Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., is reported to have had a successful financial year. We understand that last year's dividend of 6 per cent. will probably be main tamed. On the other hand, owing largely to the enormous labour of reorganization, and to the amount of " dead " charges left upon it, it is not unlikely that the accounts of the London General Omnibus Co., Ltd., will disclose a loss of at least £70,000 for the year ended 30th June last. The Brighton and Worthing motorbus service is now running more frequently, for the holidays. Given fine weather, a good season is assured.
The Great Eastern Railway Co. has recently improved its motorbus vice between between Norwich and Loddon, and the changes appear to be much appreciated locally.
The Chairman of the City and South London Railway Co., Mr. Stuart Wortley, K.C., M.P., presiding at the 50th ordinary general meeting of shareholders, announced that the directors had under consideration the revision of fares, in view of the severe competition of trams and motorbuses.
The Metropolitan Steam Omnibus Co., Ltd., is now selling sets of seven id. tickets for 6d., which amounts to a practical reduction in the neighbourhood of 15 per cent. The discount is of value to regular travellers, and more than one ticket may be tendered in payment of fares in excess of Id. each.
At the last meeting of the Cleethorpfs Urban District Council, a discussion took place upon an application from Mr. H. L. White, manager of the Great Grimsby Tramway Company, for permission to run motorbuses in certain streets. The application was granted, subject to the agreement of particular stoppingplaces.
A Hustling Tramcar.
The Liverpool Corporation has been held liable, in respect of a collision which occurred between one of its electric tramcars and a motorbus at Wavertree. A passenger in the motorbus was injured, and the evidence showed that the electric car, after rounding a curve, had ample room to come to rest. instead of which it ran into the back of the bus.
Cornish Services.
One of the most successful private services with a motor char-k-ba,ncs in Cornwall is that run by Mr. E. J. Pet-. vin, of the Atlantic Hotel, Bude. Mr. Petvin's " Commer Car" vehicle, which is known as the " Queen of the Road," has a busy programme of trips to Clovelly and Bideford, Boscastle and Tintagel, and other centres of interest, and he writes to us in relation to this machine—which he purchased as the outcome of perusal of our pages —stating that it is doing good work upon the hilly routes which it follows. Holiday Slackness.
The second and third weeks in August. are normally the slackest in all the year for London omnibuses.
The Hammersmith Road.
Motorbuses, in 1906 and 1907, did not do well along the KnightsbridgeKensington line. Traffic managers did not like the road, but it now is well served and remunerative.
A Large Omnibus.
The accompanying illustration is of a 45-seated N.A.G. vehicle. This is running on a regular service at Moscow, whence the photograph has been sent to us. The vehicle, haying regard to its large seating capacity, does not look at all ungainly or unwieldy.
Hull's Services.
The formal inauguration of the Hull Corporation's motorbus service, between Witham and Storieferry, was a great success, the vehicles being given a good send-off by the Mayor and Mayoress (Alderman and Mrs. J.
Feldman). the Chairman of the Tramways Committee (Alderman F. Larard), and other members of the Corporation. The vehicles are, as our readers will recollect, second-hand San rers ; they were purchased from
the Mersey Railway Company. The real credit for the working up of local into belongs to the staff of Commercial Cars, Ltd., whose energetic and pioneer efforts were not rewarded as they deserved to be.