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Greater London s Passenger Transport.
A weekly return, compiled front ofriai source*, of the traffic receipts, with comparawns to previous figitt,x, of the principal passenger-carrying companies In the Metre polis.
Recent route alterations of the T.C.O. Co., Ltd., include: an extension of No. S service to Willesden Creen that of No. 4 service., from Harlesden, to Waterloo.
'file writers in the lay Press all over the country still continue to express satisfaction at their recent discovery of the L.G.O.C.'s silent X-type motorbus, width has been on the London streets since last December.
On Monday last, an outbreak of fire, Ill a confectionery shop in New Oxford Street, was promptly extinguished, owing to the ready action of the driver of a passing motorbus, who brought his portable fire-extinguisher into action, with satisfactory results.
At Whitstable, a ten-year-old Daimler wag,onette is running to and from Herne Bay, a distance of a little over five miles of fiat road. Notwithstanding that the return fare, is., is more than the charge by rail, the bookings arc tembrisk.
Mr. H. Massa(' Buist. writing in last Sunday's " Observer," expresses his disappointment with the new silent Types of motorbuses which are appearing on London's streets. 1' They are the same ugly, ungainly vehicles, made to conform to the regulation measurements and appearing considerably frail." He thinks there is no danger of " undue silence." We do. Notice of intended dividend is given in the bankrupt estate of the Rapid Road Transit Co., Ltd., 29, Great St. Helens, E.C. All proofs must be lodged, on or before 19th September, with Mr. H. de l'aux Brougham. 33, Care ■ Street, Lincoln's Inn, W.C.
Fifty years ago on the 30th ult., the first tramway in Europe was publicly opened at Birkenhead. The first line was laid in London, in 1861, from Marble Arch to Bayswater Road. The earliest metropolitan lines were compulsorily removed, after a brief period. owing to public protest against the obstruction. The public seems to he more apathetic nowadays. Todmorden Loses1£7,
The July report on the working of the municipal motorbus service was presented to the Todmordeu Town Council last week. During the month, there were 60,2 45 passengers, and 515 parcels carried. The vehicles ran a total of 6,987 miles and earned 7099. There was a gross profit of £88, which, however, was absorbed by the provision for sinking fund and interest.
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In the course of the Chairman's remarks at the ordinary general meeting _of the Great Eastern London Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., it was stated that, for considerable periods of time during the past twelve months, every single motorbus, for which the. company had a licence, had been running. The total average of machines. out of running fm the whole year had been less than per cent. So• satisfied were the directors. said Sir Thomas Pile, with the running of the two new-type silent Straker-Squires, that it was intended shortly to put into service a large number of similar machines. He continued : " When T addressed you last year, I pointed (Mt that, if a petrol tax was enforced and the product expended on the improvement of the roads, it was equitable that a large proportion of the amount raised in the London district from commercial mechanical traffic, as distinct from ordinary motorcars, should he expended on the roads and streets there. I venture to call the veryserious attention of the Road Board to the many city and suburban roads which require urgent improvements."The shareholders unanimously voted. an extra 1;2,000 to Sir Thomas Pile• and Mr. Fred. Griffith for their able personal serv