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TROLLEY - BUSES

Should They Be Introduced

Into Hong Kong?

Mr. L. C. F. Bellamy, General years is probably true and for a Manager of The Hong Kong service requiring a frequency not

Tramway Company. spoke to greater than 5 or 6 minutes and

local Rotarians at their week

y

with no prospect of immediate im- timn meeting yesterday provement the higher capital cost On trolley-buses which

are of the trolley-bus would appear not now gradually displacing the old to be justified. But the diesel bus type of tram-car not only in Loa- is not nearly so quiet and smooth- don and other big provincial cen-running as the trolley-bus. Indeed tres in Britain, but also in a num-at the risk of being considered ra- ther prejudiced in its favour I will ber of colonies.

say that for comfort, silence, ease of odour of riding and absence there is no public service vehicle on the road to-day in which it is such a joy to travel as in the latest type of trolley-bus operated by the London Passenger Transport Board.

In the Straits Settlements they have completely ousted the tram- car with tremendous benefits. Should they be introduced into Hong Kong? Mr. Bellamy tries to answer that question in his "ex- cellent address.

Mr. Bellamy sald:-

The trolley-bus made its first appearance in Great Britain about 29 years ago. It was, much criticis ed in some quarters in those days, as "hybrid" and such epithets "mongrel" being hurled at it. A few years later when the motor bus became much more common it was sald by the motor bus people that the trolley-bus system still retained in the heavy and costly overhead equipment one of the principai disadvantages of the tram whilst the tramway prota- gonists opined that in its relatively low carrying capacity and its lack of self-steering, etc., it had many of the disadvantages of the motor bus. In other words, this new in- strument of road passenger trans- port 'was neither "fish, nesh, fowl or good red herring."

As everybody knows, the trolley, vehicle-like the tram-car-derives ita power from electricity collected from overhead trolley wires. Un like the tram-car, however, but In common with the motor bus, it has pneumatic tyres and requires no rails.

NO TRAMWAYS IN CANTON It has always struck me as really tragic that Canton has never had a tramway system. But I will not pursue that point. The trolley- bus system which is in course of construction in that city will con- slat of 70 vehicles operating over 22 miles of route through the of Canton and principal streets crossing over the Pearl Bridge into

Honam.

With the exception of the bus bodies which will be constructed locally the whole of the equipment for the system is being manufac- tured in England. since the con- tract which the Municipality have placed with the General Electric Co., Ltd.. includes the trolley-bus chassis, transformers, cables, con- trol gear, overhead trolley wire, telephone equipment and steel clad mercury arc rectifiers.

The single deck trolley-buses will be fitted with 80 HP. motors and the power for the system will be obtained from the new Municipal Power Station which will be put into service shortly.

This Power Station will supply alternating current at 13.200 volts 550 which will be converted "Into voits direct current by means of the mercury arc rectifiers which will be located at ten sub-stations at 'suit- able positions on the "routes.

As is well-known a tramway undertaking is called upon not only to build its tracks but entire- ly to relieve the highway authority of any obligation to maintain the road surface of the tracks. the clear-way between the tracks or 18 inches either side of the tracks. Hence the-Borough Couhelis. through whose areas the trams When this new Canton Trolley- have hitherto run and who will Bus System is running next year. after the adverit of the trolley-it will be as up to date as British buses-be required to maintain the electrical engineering can make it. full width of their own roads are not too enthusiastic over change.

SOME COMPARISONS '.

the

Well, let us briefly consider some of the advantages and disadvan- tages of trolly-buses.

(1) Silence

Advaniages

(2) No exhaust fumes

(3) Kerbside loading

(4) Like the tram-car its power

derived from locally produced electricity.

(5) Like the bus, ho

expensive

track to maintain. (6) Longer life than a motor bus. Disadvantages

(1) Just as route-bound as a tram-

cal.

(2) Overhead equipment, 4 trolley wires instead of only 2 for a double track tramway.

car.

UP-TO-DATE SYSTEM

and the action of the Canton Au- thorities in placing this important work in the hands of a British arm is a happy augury for future Anglo- Chinese co-operation and a striking instance of the confidence which cur Chinese friends have in British engineering skill and workmanship. Further evidence that British Manufacturers are taking a pro- minent" part in the supply of trolley-buses to undertakings abroad is provided in the news that the English Electric Co., have re- cently shipped numerous trolley buses to both Montreal and Moscow, whilst Leyland Motor Ltd. (who are the sub-contractors for have the 70 chassis for Canton) Just supplied a number of trolley- bus chassis for Sydnes.

POPULAR TROLLEY-BUSES

It must not be thought that the operation of trolley-buses is con-. ined to Great Britain and the Africa United States. In South

(31. In common with the motor bus

it requires to be steered. (4) Must be written off over a they are very popular. Capetown, shorter period than a tram-Johannesburg and Durban are each British operating fleets-all of (5) As with trum-cars special sub-manufacture. Italy also seems to stations and underground be becoming trolley-bus minded electric mains necessary.

aud this class of vehicle is operat- From the point of view of the Ing in Leghorn, Verona, Padua, man in the street, I regard the two Milan and Venice. In Venice the features silence and absence of ex-service is along the new road via- haust gases as very important,

I said earlier on that trolley buses used pneumatic tyres and some of you may have in mind the trolley-buses of Singapore and Shanghai where the majority of. these vehicles are atil mounted ont solid tyres.

duct to Mestre on the mainland.

Other countries using the trolley- bus are India, Burma, Germany, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Aus- tralia, New Zealand Holland, Japan and the Straits Settlements.

Finally I feel I must say one word about the horse tram and if I may But I know of no other case digress I would like to report a where pneumatic tyres are not uttle item of omnibus news of the used and even in Shanghai and early 19th century. This is en ex-

the Singapore

silence of the tract from "The Times" (price trolley-buses is remarkable.

seven"pence) of Baturday, January In the United States and Canada

30..1838. there are now between 1,600 and 1,700 trolley-buses in operation serving 38 systems and we are told that in the US.A. alone the number of these vehicles ordered last year was almost equal to the total of the preceding 6 years.

"The latest convert is Honolulu and the Hne that serves the famous "Waikiki Beach" will soon see the Arst trolley-bus system, to be in- stalled in the Hawaiian Islands. Plans involve ek route miles with 30 trolley-buses.

DIESEL-ENGINED BUS

That the diesel engined bus has made strides as rapid as those of the trolley-bus over the last few

OMNIBUS LAW

Keep your feet off the seats. Do not impose on the conductor the necessity of finding you change: be is not a banker.. SIL with your limbs straight, and do not with your legs describe an angle of 45, thereby occupy ing the room of two persoUA, Do not apit upon the straw. You

are not in a hogsty. Behave respectfully to females, unprotected and put not an

lass to the blush, because she cannot escape from your bru- tality...

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