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NEW DESIGNŞ.
CURRENT
COMMENT
An Unusual Request,
TROLLEY BUSES.
No Trams in England in 10 Years.
EXPERT'S VIEW.
Mr. R. H. Wilkinson, General Manager of the Bradford Tram- ways, has predicted that there will
We understand that the In- spector-General of Police has in- vited the Automobile Association and the Chambers of Commerce to bear the cost of the traffic beacone no more trams in England in near the Hongkong Cricket Club ten years. There are no tramcare Ground, a matter of some £70 or in Wolverhampton, but there is a Fr. We cannot quite appreciate system
trackless trolley the reason for mich
request, minibuses that in the envy of neither can we see why the
Municipalities everwhere. ganisations concerned should be
Twenty-five
Л
or.
years ago 1
approached in the matter, Surely Wolverhampton Corporation Tram-
it is up to the Government to pro-ways ran a motor omnibus, and in vide such modern necessities at its placing into
cost without having to pneumatic
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(recourse
service the first tyred six-wheeled
to the lasing of afrolley omnibus in the World, the will for free appllancer. We town maintained its reputation
for
T imagine some
manufacon
ROYAL COMMISSION ON TRANSPORT.
Tramways Out of Date.
MOTOR TAXES FOR THE RATES..
Far-reaching recommendations for the national co-ordination of
all forms of transport are included in the final report of the Royal Commission on Transport. They include:
Rationalisation of rand transport.
Methods to secure increased use of railways for freight
traffic to prevent unfair competition by road vehicles. Cheaper freightage rates.
Trackless trolley-ears or omnibuses In the suburbs of London
in substitution for tramways with lines which are; out-of-date.
mendations are:
Among the Commission's recom- That a special system of licensing tance road haulage vehicles:
turers of signals and beacons being transport enterprise. The Tran" should be instituted for all long din- also the
purt Committee to-day operates quite willing to quote a specially the largest fleet of trolley buses in low price, or even donate a few free
the
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samples in the Interest of future Wolverhampton Muyor of trade, but we cannot agree that the Davies, who is Chairman of the Authorities should ask various sec-Transport Committee-says that tions of the community to bear the Municipalities throughout the cost of modern improvements and country and indeed throughout the safety devices,
There is no telling world who are thinking of replac where this sort of thing might noting their tramwaya have sent step. After all, motorists payDeputations to Wolverhampton to taxes which are supposed to cover examine and report on the new such expenditure,
type of Guy trolley bus which is standardized in Wolverhampton.
Learners' Aren,
That the four railway groups
should co-operate more closely in
duplication or undue deiny when providing a better service without
passengers or goods change from one line to another;
should work more closely with That the railway companies road, canal, and sea transport, and that these services should be co-ordinated in ponsible:
every
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That in the provinces and the suburbs of London trackless trum- way-cara or omnibuses should, where possible, be substituted for the old-fashioned tramways with lines;
The Mayor says, "The operat- A contemporary appears to being easts of trolley omnibuses are under the mistaken impression that less than those of petrol omnibues. Happy Valley is still used as a Last year's (1929) accounts show "learning area" for people taking a reduction of 2d, a mile in favour up motor driving. This was stop of the trackless trolley. During That more use should be made of ped many months ago, the district the first complete year since the the canel system, and that special where lessons may be taken being inaguration of trolley buses the consideration should be given to in the vicinity of Sookampoo, Vic-trolley vehicles carried 23.176,998 the needs
of the former for toria Rd., Caroline Hill Rd., and passengers and the omnibuses marketing his goods quickly and at Kotewall Rd. After a learner's 16.522,399, the gross profit on an economical rate. licence has been in force for some trolley vehicles being £75,271, and
The
report is signed by all the time, permission is granted to drive un omnibuses £26,236, a total of members of the Commision, anywhere between the hours of 6 101.508, which is a good return presided over by Sir Arthur am, and 9 a.m., and in the evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Lower Albert Road.
on the outstanding capital seçount Griffith-Boscawen, as were the two of £366.000,"
former reports.
the recommendations of which have
Mr.
General
most of
of road vehicles for the conveyance of heavy goods not only competes unfairly with the railways, but is enuse of considerable damage to the road surfaces.
There a strong mention of the fact that the Commission considera that the lines are a danger to the that tramways are out of date, and motorists, while an important sec- tion of the report will deal with the rates, and the system under which need for the revision of freightage they are operated by the railway companies,
Motor Taxation.
An important recommendation is taxation.. The commission is gatia- foreshadowed with regard to motor! fied that motorists are paying their fair share towards the £60,000,000 a year which the roads of the coun- that it is critical of the diversion try cost.it, is understood, however, of a third of the money to the national exchequer, and favours the whole of the sum paid by motorists going to the relief of ratepayers for the maintenance of the roads.
On the subject of canals, the commission regards A certain number as still useful and necessary, and recommends that they should amalgamated and put under a of London Authority.
ho
Manage and Engineer, нays, "It been included in the Roads Trälle public trust analogous to the Port
Owen Silvera,
The work of raising the channels.
was found that we could serap the along the Lower Albert Road, from tramway track and pay a suli-: the Dairy Farm Corner to just be stantial amount towards the re- yond the junction with Upper Al-construction of the road and in- ert Rond is practically completed stitute a system of trolley buses at the time of writing these notest, for about half the cost of laying und an excellent job has been made
a double tramway track. of it. Previously, the fulling cam- ber to the channels was a real source of danger, and a number of mis- haps were probably due to it, es- pecially in wet weather. The work
VIBRATION FATAL
has been carried out with the min- Do Not Neglect Undue
imum of delay, and traille has been able to use the road during the time the work has been in progress.
Dairy Farm Corner.
The corner at the Dairy Farm is: not only dieult to negotiate, but definitely dangerous, and it would
Shaking.
REPAIR COSTS.
Automotive
engineers have spent years in their efforts to
be a good idea to take in a piece reduce vibration to minimum
of the land on which the Bishop's and in House is built. A few feet all the of bank, which is of little use as
$19
this
respect, the cara to-day. are
different from the care of a few years ago us
garden, would effect improvement, a farm wagon is from a pullman and we imagine that the owners of the property would be only too will-
car.
ing to co-operate with the Govern- "The motorist who enrefuly seeks ment in the matter. The land is out the cause of vibration and re- of little value, that is to say, the medies it immediately will save him- handing over of the slice required, self a lot of repair bills later on. would scarcely affect the value of states Mr. F. A. Hil of Duro the site, and those who made It Garage, Fisk Tire Dealer. "Wheels Buick's Bold Step.
possible, would be doing a most com- out of alignment' are A common mendable public service, probably cause of vibration and unless ad- When entirely new designs are avag serious or fatal accidents justed by an expert in regard to adopted by the
the future. in
We earnestly hope "camber," "caster" and "toe-In, average motor that this suggestion will be adoped. will be apl to lead to the need of manufacturer, the changeover Similarly, a fow feet taken from new king bolts, the bolts and spring from the old to the now is almost the foot of Government House shackles to say nothing of the invariably gradual. The now is Grounds at the junction of Lower damage that will be done to the generally at first offered for asle and Upper Albert Roads, would ef- | tyres.""
as an additional model to those feet another much needed improve-
ment,
British owners
and substituting eights, and if one can judge from
"In the well balanced smooth rur- ning motors of to-day, seemingly insigafficiant things can contribute to vibration, continued Mr. F. A. Hill. "Sometimes the bolts holding the engine-clutch-transmission unita
with which the firm has made good its reputation and time allowed for the gradual disappearance of the latter from the catalogue as measure of precaution. The now the showing on the road of the to the frame become loosened, or car may not be a success," either chenpeat of the whole series their the fan may became out of balance mochanically or financially, and courage is likely to be rewarded. due to the bonding of one of the
the polley of transferring all the eggs simultaneously to one basket lo nover absolutely safe.
The makers of the Buick have taken the bold step of dropping all
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a crític,
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tie, blades. Goa leakage may give one so striking of others. A bent driving shaft, loose cylinder weaker impulses than xeneral all round improvemont over previous design as is to be vibration and for best servico from top and many other things cause bo found in this now Buick. It is absolutely different car from its your ear and from your tyres all predecessors, with + differaat causes of vibration should be chock-
the Bix-cyllader models which character and different performed early, and corrected as soon as have for so long been famillar to anco."The Observer.
posalble."
Act.
Itationalisation.
0
Long-distance road transport vehicles are defined as those which travel more than 30 miles from their home town.
The name of the town of origin would be painted on the vehicles to enable them to be recognised. This step would be the preliminary to the rationalisation in the hands of hundreds of of road transport, which at present
Methods, it is understood, will be suggested for securing increased use of the railways for freight traffe, instead of the roads.
It is urged that the present use
firms.
In connexion with the co-ordina- tion of the means of transport, it Is understood that there will be
published with the report sugges tions by three of the members Sir Robert Donald and the Labour representatives, Mr. F. W. Galton and Mr. William Leach, M.P.
They propose the creation of a public transport trust on the lines of the National Electricity Board. buy up every description of trans- This trust would have power to port-railways, omnibuses, tram- ways, canals, and 80 manage them for the public, paying on-and fixed interest on the capital fuvolved but not making any other definite profit.
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