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conditions being favourable--it is sound economies to indulge in the higher capital expenditure.

Railless Tram.

THURSDAY,

APRIL 7, 1927.

her transport. Everything in store in Flanders; but the decrease life from marriage to man-was also due to the fact that far- slaughter, torna on the speed mers at home were too busy or and côớt at which men, things too preoccupied to add to their f and thoughts can bo shifted stock.

led automatically from the base) ment of the City Hall. Th any street at any given moment the lights are red and green alter- nately as far as the eye can sea. They all fas and change, over from one place to another. If Immediately after the war simultaneously Let us suppose a you can tie up a nation's trans-overyone prophesied "petrol vehicle enters the Loop district at port, you can take her off your age" in transport-motor tractors Qin Madison Street. It cannot

books,"

took the place of horses on the proceed until the Clark Street If and when China acquires a farm, and “Government surplus" traffic at that point is shut off, stable Government it is to bo hoped lorries of the drays in the towns. When this happens conditions at that one of the first tasks to which There wore even motor dustcartą. Madison Street would then be it will give its attention will be This sudden flooding of the streets exactly as shown on the plan for the provision of roads and rail with commercial motors led many Monroe Street. A definito cycleways. Bereft of these vital traffic people to under-estimate the value of operations ensures that if a ve-arteries China will remain, like a of the horse, for while the motor. hielo maintaing a constant speed lant striken with paralysis.

has countless advantages. statis- Adam Smith in his "Wealth of tics collected from leading con- of about 74 miles per hour it will

tractors and farmers by the Shire: (after getting into phase to begix Nations" says:

Good roads, canals and navi-Horso Society show that for short with) travel through this densely

rable rivers, by diminishing the distances the horse is sometimes populated district without any.

hold-up traffic

whatever. The expense of carriage, put the more economical than the motor. has systomi

been

romote parts of the country The English farmer is a con- designed,

more nearly upon a level with servative man, and wants to keep primarily, to facilitate the move-

those in the neighbourhood and breed horses like his father ment of tramcare and has been

the town. They are upon that and his father's father. In these worked out so that although tha tram is always approaching a red

account the greatest of all im hard times ho often, cannot afford provements." The capital cost of this system or stop signal at the next block

to give up his horses, which cost; Those wise words were written little to keep, and not only plough is greater than for petrol buses be- this signal will have changed to enuse of the cables and overhead green or go by the time the long before the days of motor buses and reap, for him, but also give equipment but the great point is normal interval (Conseconds) re- or electric traction. Were, he liv-him foals which he can sell for that the costly concrete founda-quired for picking up and setting ing what would Adam Smith day 70 or £80 each. On the farm the

town passengers had expired. to-day about the lamentable lack horse is still holding its own. tion, rails and granite setts to-

It is said that automobiles and of transportation, facilities in gether with their perpetual up-

tramears now move through the China? keep and renewals

entirely eliminated.

For the conveyance of passon- gers in our medium sized towns, however, there has now arrived on the scene เก vehiclg which is neither tramcar nor motor bus. It has no petrol engine and it requires no ralls. But it has rubber tyres and also a trolley pole (or rather two). I refer, of course, to. the railless bus or trolley vehicle. It has very great possibilities and in several towns where the mainten- ance of the tramway track has be- come too onerous à burden it is supplanting the tramear and the rails are being taken up.

are

It is said that these vehicles can tackle peak loads better than can motor buses because the available power is not limited to that of a petrol engine.

Loop district of Chicago in about At the conclusion, Mr. Bellamy all the time previously occupied answered several questions put to when each street Intersection was him, and Mr. J. S. Gillingham pro- posed a vote of thanks, which was independently controlled by police officer and that the cost of duly accorded. the installation- about G$230,000 On the other hand it is undesir.is a mere bagatello compared able (and in fact impossible) to with the benefits which are now load a vehicle on pneumatic tyres being derived therefrom by the as is done with a tramcar. A well- citizens of Chicago. behaved tramcar with modern equipment simply smiles at a 50 per cent. overload, but to attempt this with a rail-free vehicle would be looking for trouble--if not courting disaster.

Compared to China.

In conclusion ono is tempted to compare transportation facilities in America with those that obtain

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For centuries the English Shire horse has been supreme. In mere strength it is unequalled. Ameri for pulls registered on "dynama- tors." but the English horses test- ed with machine at Wembley smashed the dial at 29 tons! The real test is with an actual lodd, and two Liverpool, dock horses, at the Shire Horse Show a few years ago, pulled 4 dead weight of 18 tons with case; It was interesting to see that the shaft horse moved the load with- The days of the horse are num-out the help of the chain horae beredthat in the opinion of the in front. They repeated their in China which is said to have average layman on the transport performance inside the Agricul In towns at home which are to only 7,000 miles of railway and question, and it is an opinion tural Hall for the benefit of the small for tramways but where the 11,000 miles of roadway. Where- which, five years ago, he would King, who is an enthusiastic Shire Municipality run both the elec-as the United States has one mile have been justifled in, holding horse breeder on his estate at tricity station and the passenger of railway to every, 360 persons But now the tide has turned again Sandringham. transport undertaking troller China has only one mile to every in favour of the horse, writes Mr. vehicles appear to be the ideal pro- 50,000 persons. In the U. S. A. T. S. Denham. The last few years position.

there is one motor car for every have seen a revival of interest in five or six persons but in China cart horse breeding in England, the figure is one for every 31,000 and the number of animals use! there for transpert in big towns and in The acid test of any transporta-persons. In Great Britain tion system is its ability to dent is a mile of railway to every 11 the country is steadily increasing. The number of horses in Eng- with the peak load. Where there square miles of territory as against

land dropped by some hundreds of

Believed to be London's oldest British Government. In dealing is little or no peak loading and 1 to 330 square miles in China,

thousands during the where a headway between vehicles

war, regular dancer, Mr. Chris Harvey, with tas "dodgera" in Jersey were Heavy horses were needed for the 86, a local tradesman, attended a contained in a communication sub- to the States of Jersey artillery, and thousands of the no-dance held by the R.S.P.C.A. atmitted

recently. le animals died beside their mas-Edmonton Town Hall.

The Peak Lond.

rival.

of 15 minutes or so is sufficient the motor bus is without a The capital cost is low, the route can be varied if necessary and overhead electrical equipment is

unnecessary.

But where traffic is dense electric traction રૈધ not only desirable but absolutely nec- cessary. I will anticipate the question 49 to whether in those sections of London where tramways are not allowed the. mot ir bus does not fill the bill. It most decidedly does not. The Underground has to look after the peaks just as the tramway does on the routes where it runs in con- petition with the buses.

In the cities of Birmingham and

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running in the off-peak hours is

'about 300 but in the morning and evening rush periods it is 700. This means that 57 per cent. of the rolling stock is lying idle for pro- bably 20 hours out of the 24,

Substituting large double-deck buses accommodating 60 (say 50 sented and 10 standing) for tram- cars accommodating 100 (80 seated and 20 standing) it would neces- sitate G56 buses and 1,883 men (drivers and condalfore) standing by for the peaks instead of 400 frams and 900 men.

American Practice.

I recently visited America and afthough I could speak on this all evening I am limited now quarter of an hour

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It is curioua anomaly that whereas American transport people will not operate double-deck train- cars they are operating double- deck buses very extensively.

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Most of the tramcars. in the large cities 'usé, trailers and both have large standing capacity the American street "train" of two vehicles accommodates more than the usual British double-deck tramcar. Even when ruc

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single units, however, their cars are, exceedingly heavy and their. passage over tramway crossing at street intersections 14 accom- panied with very considerabla noise.

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When one considers' that it was only about 31 year ago that the late Charles Rolls was photographed with his motor car in Knights- bridge with 4 man in front brandishing a red flag Bone America's luxury motor buses are a. revelation. I inspected a num- ber in Cleveland. These buses are beautifully upholstered and very handsome, some of them being provided with lavatory modation anu iced drinking water. I was told in Seattle that it was possible to travel in such a bus from that town to Los Angeles-- n distance of over 1,000 miles.

Traffic Flow Signal System. Nothing in America interested me more than the trafle' signale in Chicago constituting the "co- ordinated traffic flow signal, sya tem" in the down-town (known in Chicago as the Loop diatrict). Although it has to bo seen to be appreciated I will briofly describe it. At overy street. In- tomsection there are traffic lights on columns about seven foot in height. Those lights are control-

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Rudyard Kipling has said:

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In spite of asphalt roads the number of shire horses; in England steadily increasing. They have shown that in certain forms of transport they can beat the motor at its own game.

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