The Om us Company Placing a New Model on the Koads To meet ever increasing demand for transportation additional buses of a new type are being taken into service. A casual obver must be impressed with the enormous passenger traffic eazried by both the tramway and bus services in Shanghai, trafic that is heavy that the vehicles often are crowded to their utmost capacity and to the great discomfort of Passengers.
The demand for economical and fast transportation which it is fair to assume will increase rather than decrease may, to a certain extent bbe met by increasing the number of vehicles employed by the two services, but in fairness to other forms of traffic rightly claiming reasonable buses of the latest type manufac-turned by Guy Motors Ld, of Wolverhampton, England, for use on their routes in Shangh These omnibuses are the last word in British construction and are similar to those now being supplied to the leading companies Britain and her dependencies. They are adequately tyred with Dunlop pneumatics, the rear axles carrying twin-tyres, The engine is of very light but robust construction, developing 38 horse-power at 1,000 revolutions pes minute, The transmission is from the engine through @ cone clutch and a four speed-and. reverse gear-bos thence toa worm driven rear-axle. privileges on-the roads, these public services cannot increase indefinite Need for Increased Accommodation Increased accommodation in the vehicles concerned would seem to be indicated and we wonder whether the moment has not now arrived when all public passenger vehicles should be doubled decked to provid greater accommodation per vehicle! Yather than materially add to the number of vehicles using the roads which, admittedly, already are fairly reasonably congested.
The new bus being tried out on} our roads is the same model as supplied to the Police and used as the, Emergency Squad van, but unlike the Red Maria the speed of the public vehicles is controlled by an adjustable arrangement to limit the speed to 20 miles per hour.
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