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Liverpool City Council is once more considering motorbuses, this time for use on the line of docks.
One hundred of the Charron cars used by the General Motor Cab Co., Ltd. for private hire purposes were recently sold at a low price.
Co-partnership Motor Cabs, Ltd., holds its annual general meeting at Chandos Hall, Chandos Street, W., on Friday, 13th September, 1912.
The Mayfair Motor Cab Co., Ltd., is hiring four Unic cabs to two of its drivers at the rate of 25 per week per cab during September.
We understand from Mr. W. M. Hodges that, on his relinquishing his appointment as joint general manager of the General Motor Cab Co., Ltd., he will be retained by the company in the capacity of consulting engineer.
Stout Scout Bodywork.
Scout Motors, Ltd., of Salisbury, has several motor chars-.-banes on order, in accordance with the design which we illustrate herewith. There are no side doors, which is a factor of some moment in relation to strength and weight, but an aisle or gangway runs down the middle of the car, so that 30 passengers can be seated when necessary. Low cost of construction has been kept in view all the time.
New 1...G.O.C. Appointment.
Mr. C. E. Fishhourne, who is now completing a term as technical assistant to the head of the Traffic Branch of the Board of Trade, will, in a few weeks from date, take up his appointment as assistant general manager to the London General Omnibus Co.
Mr. Fishhourne received his training at Malvern College. where he was mathematical scholar. and at the Royal Military Academy. Woolwich. He was commissioned in the Royal Fngineers in December. 1904, and subseouently was employed under the Colonial Office, from June. 1907, to November. 1908. in Uganda, upon important engineering and surveying work, for which he Was awarded the Cuthbert Peek grant, in 1910, by the Royal Geographical Society. Mr. Fishbourne combines with his considersihie scientific training. great devotion to all problems connected with passenger transport, and an unbounded fund of energy. A Drastic. Change.
The Sharp Motor Cab Co., Ltd., closed its garage in Lupus Street, Pimlico, on Friday last. Its fleet consisted of 100 Darracq and 50 Mors cabs, and it has been found that it is impossible to run them at a profit under present conditions. It will be remembered that a few days before the motorcab strike in November last year, a meeting of the drivers of these cars was convened by the directors of the company, who asked for the abolition of all charges for extras and that the fare should be increased to Is. per mile. Subsequently, the arbitration proceedings presided over by Lord St. Aldwyn gave the drivers the extras, and overruled the proprietor& suggestions as to an increased fare.
The British Motor Cab Co., Ltd., has engaged 40 of the drivers who have been thrown out of employment. For New Zealand.
A 32 •li.p. Albion torpedo char-abanes, with a body constructed to carry 25 passengers, has been supplied to the Mornington Borough Council, Mornington, New Zealand, through Messrs. Grapes and Riley. This smart-looking vehicle is designed in the " Pay-as-you-enter " style, so that the driver can collect the fares without the assistance of a conductor.
Yorkshire Moves.
Halifax Corporation, Todmorden Corporation, and Hebden Bridge Council have interesting developments under consideration. The last-named body had decided to ask (a) Halifax to extend its tram system from the centre of Hebden Bridge to Whiteley Arches, and (b) Todmorden Corporation to extend its present motorbus service from Sandbed so as to link up with Halifax tram service. This dual development would give a continuous road-locomotion link from Liverpool to Leeds.
Heliden Bridge's application to Todmorden is a great compliment to the efficacy of Todmorden's public service of motorbuses. The district is extremely hilly.
Watson's Castings.
Watson's cylinder, piston and other castings for motorcar parts, to which we make technical references on pages 6 and 7, are the subject of many good reports to us.
Mr. Ernest T. White, late managing partner in this Tyneside firm, is now the sole agent in the United Kingdom for their motor castings and all their motor-vehicle .and internal-combustion-engine work. We may also mention incidentally that Mr. White, whose office is at 28, Victoria Street, Westminster, S.W., is sole representative for the
Notting Hill Engineering Co., of Willesden—a concern which is prepared to undertake the supply of all kinds of component parts, and to finish these to any required degree of accuracy.
At Weymouth.
The Great Western Railway Co., at the urgent request of the Wey. mouth Town Council, is now giving a service of motorbuses from Dorchester Road, along the esplanade, and through the town to Rodwell and Wyke Regis.
Sheffield Nibbling.
Members of the Sheffield Corporation are still hankering after motorbuses, and they are receiving considerable support in the local Press. For example, in a recent issue of the " Sheffield Daily Telegraph," a writer urges that experiments should be made forthwith. He points out that many districts are clamouring for tramway extensions, and that the immediate course open to the corporation is to serve the particular suburbs with motorbuses. This writer concludes : "It is a lucky thing for the corporation that they have a monopoly of road locomotion. If a private company could start. motorbuses in Sheffield they would run the tramways off their financial feet."