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5th January 1911
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Keywords : Ambulance, Tram, Nottingham

News contributions are invited: payment trill be mwie on publication The Paris General Omnibus Co., in 1899, possessed 15,823 horses; it now owns 9.449; there will be a reduction to 2,000 during the next 12 months.

A Tramway Accident.

We have a " One Hears on the misleading wording of most of the posters issued by the London evening papers with regard to the smashing and overturning of a horsed bus by a runaway L.C.C. tramcar last Satur day. Care was, in most instances, taken to avoid mentioning the fact that the bus was ahorsed one. and in no cases did the posters mention that the mishap was due entirely to a tramcar.

TiIling's Faith in Petrol Electrics

The directors of Thomas Tilli'ng, Ltd.. have sufficient faith in petrolelectric propulsion for -motorbuses to add half-a-dozen machines of this class to their fleet. Mr. Percy Frost-Smith, Tilling's chief engineer, is responsible for the design and construction of this new batch of machines, which are of quite a new type; they are not Stevens models, as has been stated in certain quarters, although the electric equipment has been supplied to order by W. A. Stevens, Ltd., of Maidstone. The new vehicles will each have a single motor driving direct through a worm-gear-driven back axle. Six of them will be ready for the road in the :spring.

To See the Horses?

A special half-hourly motorbus service from Oxford Circus to the Zoological Gardens has been inaugurated by the L.G.O. Co.; the No. 33 route supplies the necessary vehicles.

Tramway Noise.

Largely on account of the presentday silence of new motorbus models, tramway managers in all parts of the country are conunencing to display anxiety with regard to the noise of tramcars; they are actively pursuing further investigations into the causes of the corrugation of rails.

An Ambulance Tender.

Mr. George E. Spencer, Clerk to the Bingley Joint Hospital Board, will receive, at 40, North Street, Keighley. until the first postal delivery on Saturday next, the 7th inst., tenders for the conversion of a horse ambulance into a motor ambulance, or in the alternative for a new motor ambulance, and he will furnish particulars on application.

Llandudno's Limited Licences.

In our last issue, we referred to all application to the Llandudno U.D.C. for licences tor several public-service vehicle's. The application was made In' Mr. G. W. Browne, the manager of the Motor and Garage Co. of that town . A special meeting has since been held to consider the question of the issuing of these licences, and a permit has now been issued for four vehicles to ply for hire between Nantygama Road and Gloddeeth Street. The issue of the licences is subject to several stipulations, amongst which are that no service of vehicles shall be run on Sundays; that a speed of 10 miles an hour shall at no time be exceeded ; that the vehicles, shall carry no advertisements, except such as may be approved by the Bylaws Committee of the Council ; that the vehicles shall only be driven by duly-qualified drivers holding the licence of the Council; that, after leaving the terminus in each direction, the vehicles shall not stop until the completion of the journey except fa; the purpose of picking lip or setting down passengers; that in no case shill. a vehicle stop at any of the usual stopping-places of the light railway cars, with whose service they will be in competition; and that the vehicles are not to be allowed to run along the sea front. There must still be several stipulations which have not yet occurred to the licensing authorities of T.landudno.

Nitrogen or Air ?

" The Star," a London evening newspaper which has not as yet displayed abstruse scientific tendencies, has " let itself go " in its enthusiasm for a scheme for the provision of nitrogen fuel for motor-vehicles, etc., which a group of London financiers is reported to have floated. We think the large petrol producers need not consider the abandonment of their businesses for a few more weeks.

Why Not Motorbuses?

The attempts to push forward with trackless-trolley services, of which more evidences are furnished below, should put motorbus constructors on their metal. We shall be happy to give the names of the parliamentary agents to the parties, on application. Electricity departments appear in want new custom very badly, but it seems a reckless course to ignore the improved self-contained petrol vehicle of 1910, and its known performances.


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