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IT may not be generally known that the condition attached to London's test batches of pneumatic-tyred six-wheeled omnibuses, which have in consequence an overall width 3 ins, above the Metropolitan Police maximum of 7 ft. 2 its., is that owing to their extra gauge they shall not be used to ply for hire in tramway streets.
WE learn from one of our correspondents in "the
States" that America is tending to give up double-deck buses in favour of .central-engined 48seater single-deckers. The objection, however, to making the bus body itself the prime factor is that it is liable to small, as well as big injuries, and whilst they are being rectified the earning power of the vehicle as a whole is destroyed. If the body of an L.G.O.C. bus be damaged it can be whipped off and replaced by another in a few 'hours.
THE proposal to take a year's rest from shows has already been discussed once by the council of the S.M.M. and T., and will come up for further consideration when the council meets again next week. It is a difficult question to decide, but one known fact is of such importance that it cannot be put out of consideration; when the French manufacturers gave up their annual salon they lost business, and that year Great Britain definitely took the lead in Europe. They have not repeated the experiment.
DESPITE the troubles experienced by some owners
of fast coaches and buses in respect of big-end failures, there are not lacking remarkable instances of big-end longevity. For instance, recently, while at the Dennis works, we examined an engine in which, after 9,000.miles of bus service, practically the original fitting-tightness of the big-ends could be felt. On a similar engine, after 38,000 miles of bus work, the big-ends did not require touching, and went back into service as they were ---and such a mileage is by DO means unusual.
A FEW weeks ago a letter arrived in this country
from the United States of America addressed : "The Manufacturers, Albatross Sleeping Car, England." It was an inquiry from an American concern arising out of a reference in The Commercial Motor to the fact that the 'Albatross sleeping car would start its inaugural run on a certain date. The postal officials seem to have read the news, for they had pencilled on the envelope "Try Royal Hotel." The letter was delivered to the Royal Hotel, London, and thus with scarcely any delay it reached the right hands. Quite a tribute to fame and notoriety 1 I WAS walking along the Boulevard des Capucines (writes our Paris correspondent) when a man dressed as a full commander in the British Navy pushed a tract or circular into my hand, and I would instantly have east it gutterwards but I caught the words -" coach trip" and "by night," and so I read on, and this is what added to the enjoyment of a seat at.a boulevard café and .a bock :— You have tome to France.Let us show you how to enjoy yourself to the utmost. Do not acept the proposals of mediocre firms before you have talked it over with US.
Special coach trip through Paris—by night. Fare includes all expenses, drinks and champagne wine!
These night trips are arranged to satisfy curtormers wishes to -have an idea of the wellknown Montmartre life and the famous Latin Quarter.
We do not promise our curtomers more than we can show.
Our guides are Gentlemen Well Mannered and Ladies May Without Fear of Blushing enjouy our trip. The weelknowu Moulin Rouge is visited and the Shaw is seen for 40 minutes.
In the Latin Quarter a cabaret is visited • situated in a previous subturreenean vault.
In case the night trip that would not bring a blush to our cheeks should not appeal to us, the circular describes trips in and around Paris, with some curious expressions but still more curious spelling, and on the back is this really remarkable advertisement:— If You Want Your Children Well Booted Go To —s, Avenue Mozart, Passy. Specialists in Children Boot, Shoes, Etc.