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The 'Manchester Tranr6 ays Committee has recently put into service a Ryknield double-decked motorbus.
The ordinary shares of the L.G.O. Co., at the time of writing, stand at 46; a year ago they were quoted at 18.
Mr. William Stanway, who has been prominently identified with commercial-motor interests in Manchester is standing as an Independent candidate for the forthcoming Manchester municipal elections.
Mr. W. B. Hopkins, chairman of the Metropolitan Steam Omnibus Co., Ltd., was also at the R.A.C. on Wednesday night, the 19th inst., but he did not take part in the discussion which is reported on the next page.
Ireland not Bashful.
Clogheen District Council (Ireland) is to apply for a grant of £10,000 from the Road Board to enable it to proride a motor-transport scheme in the locality for the conveyance of goods and passengers.
Caring for Willesden.
Willesden Urban District Council has received a letter from the London General Omnibus Co Ltd to the effect that about 60 of the company's new type of chassis are now being utilized, and that others are being turned out as quickly as possible. In the meantime the drivers have been particularly warned to drive as carefully and quietly as possible in
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Spade Work for Municipalities.
We publish, on page 163 of this issue, a letter from Messrs. Andrew Barton Bros., the owners and operators of a successful char-a-bancs service in Demon, Notts. The problem with which they are confronted should be of interest to many readers of this page, and we do not doubt that. advantageous suggestions for their guidance will be forthcoming. The Bridge House Estates Committee of the City of London Corporation is now authorized to seek the necessary powers for the construction of the proposed St. Paul's-Southwark bridge, at a cost of £1,646,983, and fort the reconstruction of Southwark Bridge, at a cost of £261,000.
In Private Service.
A country-house car, belonging to Commercial Car Hirers, Ltd., which has recently returned from a threemonths contract on the Scottish moors, has earned such good opinions from its hirer that it has already been booked, with its driver, for the season of 1911, for the same gentleman.
A Panama Service.
The annual British consular report on the trade of Panama says that a contract for the establishment of a motor service for passengers between Aguadulce and Santiago, a distance of about. 40 miles, has been made by the Government, and that the motorbuses for this route are of British manufac. tore.
Out of the Frying Pan.
Sir .1. Szhimper recently informed the Richmond Town Council that, in his opinion, the best remedy for the alleged noisy motorbus services which pass along the Kew Road on Sundays, is the rapid completion of a tramway along that route. Does Sir James realize that one of the noisiest forms of modern street traffic is the tramcar