BUSES AT THE LIEGE EXHIBITION.
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Brief Details of Some of the Chief Passenger-vehicle Exhibits at a Belgian Show.
0;' of the most interesting sections of the International Exhibition at present being held in Liege, Belgium, is that devoted to transport. Whilst the exhibits in this section consist mainly of railway rolling stock, a correspondent reports that there is a number of buses and coaChes on view.
Among them is a Renault 17-seater coach as used on the Route des Alpes , services in France by the P.L.M. Railway Co. and a Panhard 15-seater as employed on the Pyrenees services from
Biarritz. The Usines Ragheno of Malines display a 26-seater one-man-controlled trolley-bus, one of a number being built for the Antwerp Tramways Co.
The Societe Nationale des Chemins de For Vicinaux, which, in addition to operating the local railway services in Belgium, is now running a number of motorbuses, has on view a Guy sixwheeled trolley-bus with a single-deck body for accommodating 37 sitting and -20 standing passengers. The vehicle, which is designed to give a maximum speed of 32 m.p.h., weighs about 61 tons and is equipped with Westinghouse servo-operated brakes.
The Vicinaux Co. also displays a De Dion-Bouton 29-seater single-deck vehicle-which is really a motorbus, except that it is fitted With 28-in, flanged steel wheels to enable it to run on rails. The motive power is supplied by a fourcylindered engine having a bore and stroke of 95 ram. and 140 mm. respectively and stated to develop 68 b.h.p. at 2,150 r.p.m. The vehicle has brakes on all four wheels and is said to be able to attain a speed in the vicinity of 37 m.p.h.