Hull . Completes 50 Years of Transport H ULL completed 50 years
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of transport operation on July 5. A luncheon at the Guildhall, with guests including members of the new Road Passenger Executive, formed part of the jubilee celebrations.
After having begun electric tramcar operation in 1899, and by 1901 scrapped the steam trams which it had taken over from private enterprise, (he corporation started operating petrol buses as early as 1909. They wire six double-deck_ open-top vehicles which the Hull municipality bought from Birkenhead Corporation. . .
The undertaking gave up bus operation three years later, arid it was not until 1921 that the corporation's *Sent fleet of motorbuses had its birth.. Trolleybuses Were introduced in 1936.. and then followed, the gradual elimination of tranicar operation in Hull.
Members. of. the Road Passenger. Executive invited to the jubilee 'luncheon included Mr. G. Cardwell (chairman),.Mr. H. E. Clay and Mr. W.. Vane Moreland, general manager of Leeds Transport Department and president of the Municipal Passenger Transport Association.
RAISE SPEED LIMIT BY AUGUST 1 . " W/HIIST a Birmingham 'Corpora W tirm .bus, having an unladen' weight of 7tons and carrying. perhaps,: 50 passengers, is permitted tO travel up to 30 m.p.h. in a-built-Up area, a gbeids vehicle : having' an: unladen Weightof just oVer 3 tons, and Carrying general merchandise, is allowed to travel at-mily ' 20 mph. on an open country road." Mr. C. E. Jordan, chairman of the transport committee of Birmingham Chamber of Commerce. remindedhis listeners of this fact in a speech on the speed limit for commercial vehicles. Whilst it had been agreed by all concerned, with the exception of the Transport and General Workers' Union. that the principle of an increase to 30 m.p.h. for all goods vehicles was desirable and practicable, after two years it still awaited implementation, said Mr. Jordan.
"I consider," he added. "that .Mr. Barnes should have a Statutory Order issued raising the speed limit for all commercial vehicles to 30 m.p.h. as from August 1 next."
FIRST PRIZE TO FREE . ENTERPRISE
PLACARDS with the notice "Free enterprise road transport " or "Vehicle loaned by British Road Services 'Midland Division" appeared off many of the vehicles at the Kenilworth carnival, last Saturday, but rivalry among the children in the nursery rhymes tableaux was the highlight of the proceedings
Whilst a B.R.S. vehicl had the honour of carrying the Carnival Queen. free enterprise perpetuated its natural role in providing the transport for the children in the prize-Winning "Miry. Mary, quite contrary."
Coun. A. D. Hucktiale, CC.. J.P.. chairman of Kenilworth Urban District Council and managing director ,of Messrs. IL H.. Motorways, was chairMariOf the carnival, and Mr. J. W. Morley, area organizer of the Road Haulage Association, was general seeretary.