"MIDLAND RED" TO TAKE OVER?
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NEXT Thursday the West Midland Traffic ,Commissioners will consider an application by the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., for the teansfer of the licences of the Leamington and Warwick Transport Co., Ltd. Should the application be granted, the Leamington concern's vehicles will, it is understood, be replaced by "Midland Red '.' buses, probably on September 30.
BIRKENHEAD'S LAST TRAM.
EARLY last Sunday, Birkenhead's last tram was taken off the roads. The route upon which it operated is now being covered by 20 new buses, Birkenhead Corporation was the first authority to operate tramways in Great Britain.
LEICESTER TRAMS TO GO?
LEICESTER Corporation's transport system is in the balance, A report on the possibility of replacing the trams by motorbuses or trolleybuses is, it is , understood, to be presented by Mr. B. England, transport manager, to the transport committee in two or three months.
MORE FeXED STOPS. MORE FeXED STOPS.
ON Wednesday, London Transport introduced a system of fixed stopping places for buses on the 65 miles of streets in the central inner division. The stopping places are marked by 714 signs, and, apart from a few unavoidable exceptions, the longest distance which anyone has to walk to board a bus is 150 yds.
WHO SHOULD BUILD STATION? QHOULD bus companies or local
authorities provide bus stations where they are needed? This question was discussed, last week, at the monthly meeting of Lochgelly Local Committee. The matter arose when Councillor David Martin (Loch6re) suggested that the company which operates from Dunfermline to Lochore should be asked to provide a bus station at Lochore.
Mr. A. Walker, district road suryeyor, held that it was the duty of bus companies to provide stations. The railways had to make their own stations, and bus companies should have to do the same.
The matter will be raised at a meeting of the County Road Board, when pressure will be brought to bear on the bus concern.
1116,000 PLAN OPPOSITION. QCMIE opposition is being experienced, LI by the promoters of the Bournemouth Corporation (Trolley Vehicles) Provisional Order Bill. This measure refers to the introduction of trolleybuses on about 10 miles of new routes at a cost of some 2116,000.
TOUR AND EXCURSION DEFINED. A TOUR is something which extends
longer than a day. An excursion, on the other hand, is a trip extending over a whole day, a half-day, or an evening. This definition was given last week by Mr. H. Riches, chairman of the Northern Scotland Traffic Commissioners.
SPEEDING UP IN HIGHLANDS.
THE Fort William bus firm of Messrs. A. and J. Macpherson are co-operating with Highland Airways in • a new development of speeding up transport in the Highlands, thus bringing Fort William, within eight hours
of Lerwick. Passengers leaving the town by bus for Inverness are picked up by aeroplane and are taken to Lerwick.
ANOTHER BID FOR HIGHER WAGES.
A SPECIAL conference at Binningham, next Tuesday, will discuss demands by all passenger-section employees of provincial municipal. transport undertakings for an increase of at least 4s. a week in wages. An advance in wages was granted to these workers comparatively recently.
BRIGHTON TALKS ADVANCED. CCORDING to reports, negotia/l. tions between representatives of Brighton Corporation and Brighton. Hove and District Omnibus Co., Ltd., for an agreement covering transport, have reached an advanced stage. There was a possibility that the scheme would be placed before the council yesterday.