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TRANSPORT.
IN ENGLAND, AMERICA AND CHINA.
and
MR. L. O. F. BELLAMY'S INTERESTING PAPER.
WHERE ELECTRICITY IS NECESSARY.
A most interesting paper, Urban Suburban Transport,” was read by Mr. L. C. F. Bellamy (Member Institute of Transport) before the Institute of Engineers and Shipbuilders last night. Mr. James Ormiston, Past President, becupied the Chali.
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During the lecture a motion pic ture of the lates, type of omnibus in use at home-a 35 seater lovia. than of 35 b.p.was exhibited. At the conclusion of Mr.. Bellamy's address, Mr. J. S. Gillingham said that during the past twelve months five or six papers had been read, And no one could accuse them of fack of variety, They had dealt with roads, gaz radio, motors, ships and locomotives. He should like to offer Mr. Bellamy the very sincerest thanks (Applause.)
The chairman said he should like to endorse Mr. Gillingham's re-
marks.
There was a good attendance,
URBAN AND SUBURBAN TRANSPORT.
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ARTIST SHOCKS - THE LADIES.
AMBASSADOR'S WIFE AS A
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BIRMINGHAM INDUSTRIES
FAIR..
MOST SUCCESSFUL YET. HELD.
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HUGE BUSINESS OPENED · UP. A great commotion has been
It is offcially intimated that the caused in Rome by the prank of an potential volume of trade which artist. Siguor Cadoria.
will accrue from this year's Bic-- Recently he received a commis-mingham Section of the British sion to paint the ceilings of the Industries Fair at Castle Bromwich ballroom and dining room of a new may be in the region of £13,000,000 and luxurious hotel. His design,
£20,000,000. consisted of groups of females more Management Committee when the statement was made by the Thin or less in a state of nature, repre Fair dosed down. senting Venus, the Musas, Naiads,
The actual nymphs, etc. Connoisseurs agreed, orders placed during the eleven says the Central News, that from days of the Fair for immediate an artistic point of view the paint trade ware conservatively estimated ings were of a high order, but each to value £4,000,000, and the trades figure was found to be a portrait which have done the best business of a woman well known in Rome. those engaged in the production
of ail electrical switch gear, lamp shades, ongines, colliery, plaat, aluminium ware, hearth furniture, sanitary equipment, and general hardware, Shefeld edge-tools, etc.
There were princess and duchess, the Marchesa "X" the wife na Ambassador, and so on, When the hotel was opened some of these ladies made a protest.
Many of the ladies have decided to ignore the liberty taken by the artist, and others have decided that the figures bear no resemblance to them. But the publicity given to the affair has resulted in a general pilgrimage to the hotel.
this that the present chaotic state of affairs has come about:
Colonel Ashley, M.P., the Minis- ter of Transport, recently said: If ammibuses replaced trams the congestion would be so great that it would not be possible to move the people. If the trams went out of existence workmen's fares would disappear.
There is, in my opinion, only one alternative to unified management and co-ordinated control of all the
are
92,376,, Visitors.
Over 82,000 buyers visited the Fair, together with 10,137 people who paid the public admission feo of 25. so that the total number of people who passed through the turnstiles was 2,376,
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The most significant proof of auccess," says the Management Com raittee in the official statement probably to be found in the num bers of applications and inquiries already received for space next year. Already some 90 per cent, of this year's exhibitors have notified their desire to have space again, and in many cases to increase it. These, added to the applications the committee have already received from firms not showing this year, but who desire to do so next, would ppear to indicate that the bulk of the present
Colonel F. J. C. Fuller says "The London transport agencies and that tically bri Pace is already pric-
In a little book entitled "Pegasus"
crucial problem to-day is movement in all its forma. If to-morrow you can move twice the speed you can to-day you will have twice the time at your disposal to work in. It is not gold standards and other such bumbug which produces wealth, it is work; and if, to-morrow, you have twice as much time to work in as you have to-day, your existing wealth will be doubled"
Agrotesque feature about this is that street passenge transport in the down-town areas of our large ities is going the other way; it is becoming lower every year. Twenty years ago one did the journey from London Bridge to Euston in a han some cab in less time than one takes to-day in a taxi. The average speed of motor buses to-day alocg Fifth Avenue between 5.15 and 6.15 p.z. between 3 and 32nd Streets is 2 miles per hour,
is a London transport dictator. I go further and say that Lord Ash field is the man for the appoint
mcat.
Urban Fassenger Transport in
Great Britain,
The committee goes on to state that the continuous effort of the be felt, and it was now recognised Birmingham Fair is beginning to
that these annual trade exhibitions were going to play a vitally import- ant part in the industrial develop- ment of the country..
For the conveyance of passengers in our medium sized towns, there
Educational Valve. ` has now arrived a vehicle which is neither tramcar or motor bust the public, the committee states that With regard to the admission of has no petrol engine and it requires whilst it is determined to keep no rails. But it has rubber es Castle Bromwich na trade fair and abo a trolley pole (or rather
to allow retail two). I refer, of course, to the only, and not railless bus or trolley vehicle. Itselling, it is proposed to continue. has very great possibilities and in the admission of the public, he- several towns where the mainten lieving that it has an educational ance of the tramway track has be- value, and that it stimulates de- come too onerous & burden it is sup-
mand for the latest appliances planting the tram-car and the rails official statement of the extensions There was no mention in the are being taken up.
of the Fair premises, which, it is believed, are contemplated for next year, but reference to this was made by the Lord Mayor of Bir members of the Shefeld Chamber of Commerce were entertained.
In towna at home which are too small for tramways but where the Municipality run both the electric
This state of affairs is, to a large extent, due to an amazing tolerity station and the passenger trans-mingham at a luncheon at which ance which permits the choking of port undertaking trolley vehicles main thoroughfares hy all sorts and conditions of vehicle, and ander appear to be the ideal proposition." The acid test of any transporta such conditions electricity cannot tion system is its ability to deal be a substantial aid to rapid tran- with the peak load." Where sit on the street surface. Vehicles traffic is dense electric traction is must go overhead or undergroudd not only desirable but absolutely and it is a mere platitude to say necessary. In the cities of Birming that (excluding aircraft) this debam and Liverpool the number of mands electric traction.
bram-cars running in the off-peak hours is about 300 but in the morn-
I am sub-dividing this paper into 4 sections, viz-electrification of railways, London traffic, Urban transport, and American practice.
Electrification of Railways.
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and evening rush periods it is 700. This means that 57 per cent. of the rolling stock is lying idle for protably se hours out of the 21
the American street
In England the Southern Railway
American Practics, ** has shown the greatest 'enterprise Most of the tram-cars in the large in this direction and I understand U.S.A. cities use trailers and as this line is now electrified as far as both have large standing capacity Guildford. The third rail system is
tram" of two used with multiple mit control.
vehicles accommodates more than This merely means that electric the usual-British double-deck tram- locomotives are not used. Each trais is made up of units compris. Cor. yen when run as single units.
however, their cars are exceedingly. ing three coaches those at each end heavy and their passage over tram being motor coaches and the centre
way crossings at street intersections coach being a trailer. Each motor
is accompanied with very consider. coach is fitted with two motors of no less than 75 HP. each.
The rapid and smooth accelera tion of the electric train coupled with the elimination of shunting operations at termini are two face tors which will cause a raburban services round the great cities to be electrified in 'the near future.
The cost of electrification is not nearly so gigantic as is popularly supposed and need not cost more than £25,000 per mile of double track.
In both France and Spain railway electrification is going forward, chiefly with overhead equipment at 1,500 volts whilst in Japan, the Government has commenced scheme which involves the eventual electrification of some 9,000 miles of track
London Traffo The Home Counties Traffic, Ad- visory Committee report states:
"It is clear that until existing steam railway lines are electrified, ao material improvement can be secured in existing facilities. Ex- perience has shown that the capa city of a line can be increased from 100 to 200 per cent, by con version from steam to electric working,"
Tube extensions are probably the most important recommendations but the cost is enormous-about £1,000,000 mile. It is, however,
per to tubes that we' must look for an alleviation of the traffic congestion in our great cities!
able noise!
system
In many of the smaller cities in America the "one-man car has been adopted for both trams and buses. This is because of the high wages paid over there.
had arrived when it was necessary Alderman James said the time
tialities of the Fair, and when the to take a long vision of the poten- City Council must identify itself with those endeavours.
New Psychology:
Another interesting point was raised by Sir Josiah Stamp, the president of the L.M.S. group. He. said a new paychology was growing through the fact that so many peo ple owned their own homes, and more whose desire it was to make them attractive. He thought if attendance of these people without facilities could be extended for the
it would "ginger" up the distribu making the Fair another Wembley, tive and allied trades in a remark able way."
White City Section.
The White City section of the British Industries Fair closed the next day, and, as at Birmingham, a feature of the exhibition was the wide field of new business opened "P
Watch Case Co., Ltd., Handsworth,
Major Dennison, of the Dennison
All the double-deck 'buses operat done this year, and he hoped it said more actual business had been" ing in Cleveland are six-wheelers which are very favourably reported would have the effect of making the upon. I also saw some eight-wheel-section more representative next are but these are not in general use tion of overseas buyers than in any year. There was a larger propor
former to say extent.
sizce the boom year of year 1920
In China.
In conclusion one is tempted to Similar satisfactory results were compare transportation facilities in reported by Mr. Albert Carter, of America with those that obtain in Birmingham, whose total of actual China which is said to have only business done is quoted as charac 7,000 miles of railway and 11,000 teristic of the best records, and in- miles of roadway. Whereas the clades nineteen new condectiona United States has one mile of mil-
way avery 360 persons China has THE OTHER HINDENBURG. only one mile to every 30,000 per- sous. In the U.S.A. there is one In these days when the personal motor-car for every five or six per- and picturesque "elements are ab sons but in China the figure is one sent from warfare and generals for every 31,000 persons. In Great direct battles from High-powered Britain there is a mile of railway to motor-cars, it is strange to read of every 11 square miles of territory as the death of Lord Allenby's char against I to 350 square miles in ger, which he rode in Palestine China.
during his brilliant campaign there, and later when he was High eighteen
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