NEWCASTLE'S LATEST TROLLEY BUSES
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KIEWCASTLE Corporation recently Ni placed an order with Karrier Motors Successors, Ltd., of Huddersfield, for 10 six-wheeled double-deck trolleybus chassis. Each chassis is to be equipped with an 80-90 h.p. regenerative motor by the MetropolitanVickers concern, and will incorporate a braking system of the differential elec
tric type. Current for lighting (24 volts) will be obtained from a motor generator, whilst provision is being made, by means of a special starter gear and battery, for the vehicle to be manoeuvred over short distances when electric power from the line is, for any reason, not available. All wheels are to be shod with single, low-pressure pneumatics of 10.5 by 20.0 dimensions, and the chassis will turn in a circle of 63 ft.
The bodies for the vehicles are being built by the Metropolitan-CammellWeymann concern, and each will seat 00 persons. They will have front and rear staircases, the former leading to the exit and the latter from the entrance. Other features of interest inchide audible-control indicators and wireless anti-interference coils.
RAILWAY UNDERCUTTING PROTEST.
APROTEST against the low prices charged by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway Co., for excursions from Whitehaven, Workington and Maryport, was made by Cumberland Motor Services, Ltd., when that concern made an unsuccessful application to the Northern Traffic Commissioners to reduce tour fares from Whitehaven to Keswick from 3s. to 2s. after 2 p.m., and from Whitehaven to Carlisle from 4s. to 3s.
The L.M.S. fares were said to have done irreparable damage to the bus companies in the area, which based their objection on the 1s. 3d. fare to Keswick on Sundays. The Commissioners decided to fix the WhitehavenKeswick fare at 2s. 6d. and made no alteration on the Whitehaven-Carlisle route.
THE PASSENGER'S ANGLE ON TRANSPORT,
SOME transport problems were dealt with by Mr. R. Stuart Pilcher, Manchester Corporation's transport manager, in an address to a large meeting of members of the Radio Trades Luncheon Club, in that city, on Monday. He dealt with the subject from "the human side" and treated transport problems principally from the point of view of the passenger.
Referring to the bugbear of fog, he said that one of his visitors claimed to have an arrangement to stop fog. When asked to explain, the caller answered that it was not a device, but a principle, and wanted £5,000 in advance from Mr. Pikher!
The speaker also related one or two amusing instances of compensation to c44 the transport department for unpaid fares, and gave, as an example, the case of a woman who sent him four 1d. stamps in payment for a 2d. journey,which had been taken 30 years previously without payment, the remaining 2d. representing interest.
CORPORATION AND RAILWAY CO-OPERATE.
AT a recent meeting of Morecambe Corporation's transport committee, it was decided that, in connection with road services run in conjunction with late railway excursions, a scheme of free, inclusive bookings should be put into force. The whole of the receipts from the bus tickets would, it was explained, be the property of the corporation and would be paid on a monthly
basis by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway Co. Tickets would be available only for the day of issue, and would be at the rate of single fare until midnight and double fare after that hour.
VICTORIA COACH STATION'S THIRD ANNIVERSARY.
rIN Thursday next, March 14, LonIL/ don Coastal Coaches, Ltd., will hold a ceremony to celebrate the third anniversary of the opening of the Victoria Coach Station, Buckingham Palace Road, S.W.1. The premises will be thrown ypen for inspection by the guests, whilst some of the latest. coaches will be on view.
NO BUS PUBLICITY FOR L.N.E.R.l ALETTER from the London and North Eastern Railway Co., to the Yorkshire Stage Carriage Operators Association, asking members to consider displaying in their vehicles notices of the exhibition of railway rolling stock to be held in Leeds, in May, has. met with a blunt and spirited refusal.
I.F.S. PROSPECTS ENCOURAGING
STATISTICS of bus services issued by the Irish Free State Department oi Industry and Commerce show encouraging figures for January. Thew is a substantial rise in puffic on wholly internal services, whilst, for the first time in 12 months, the gross receipts from passenger fares on the crossborder serVices show an increase as compared with those for January, 1934.
Cross-border buses ran 126,000 miles, carrying 146,000 passengers and earning £4,321 in passenger fares, as compared with 133,000 miles, 146,000 passengers and £4,270 receipts in January, 1934. On the internal services a total of 2,379,000 vehicle-miles was run and 7,417,000 passengers were carried in January of last year, representing a decrease of 28,000 vehicle-miles and an increase of 148,000 passengers, as compared with the figures for the first month of 1935. The gross receipts on these services totalled £86,903, an increase of £3,383 on the total for January of last year.
The total gross receipts from coach traffic during January, 1935, amounted to £145, against z121 in 1934.
PLANS TO RESTRICT EXCURSIONS FAIL.
SUBMISSIONS by certain combine Obits companies, backed by the railways, to the effect that greater restrictions should be placed upon the number or vehicles engaged on excursions and tours, have, it appears, been rejected by the Yorkshire Traffic Com missioners. The first of a group of applications—that of Messrs. J. B. Midgley and Sons, for 82 additional excursions and tours—has been granted with no stricter limit on the number of vehicles than was applied last year.