. Electric railway journal . tramways act of 1870. Inmost cases the company has the right to charge a mini-mum fare of 2d., and in other cases a fare of 2d. forany distance in excess of i mile. Yet a minimum fareof 2d. is still too high for the average Briton, andthe customary minimum fare to the ordinary (non-workman) passenger is Id. Generally not more thanId. per mile may be charged beyond the first 2 miles. The allowable return (if the company gets any) isnot limited as a rule. How meaningless this provisionhas become appears from a statement by A. W. of the British Electric Trac
. Electric railway journal . tramways act of 1870. Inmost cases the company has the right to charge a mini-mum fare of 2d., and in other cases a fare of 2d. forany distance in excess of i mile. Yet a minimum fareof 2d. is still too high for the average Briton, andthe customary minimum fare to the ordinary (non-workman) passenger is Id. Generally not more thanId. per mile may be charged beyond the first 2 miles. The allowable return (if the company gets any) isnot limited as a rule. How meaningless this provisionhas become appears from a statement by A. W. of the British Electric Traction Company,who says that the average return of all British tram-ways, whether private or public, was only per cent for the year precedingthe war, with 4 per cent al-lowed for depreciation. A number of propertieshave been relinquished tothe local municipalities inaccordance with the pur-chase provisions of the making a valuation, thevalue is determined by thecost of replacement minusdepreciation based on actual. TYPICAL BRITISH ELECTRIC TRACTION CARSType 1—left—B. E. T. car with removable panels, for cross-country service, seating fifty-six ; type 2—above—B. E. T. double-deck car seating- forty-eight ; type 3—riglit—B. E. T. single-deck car, seating thirty-four, available for small-town service with single operator. July 26, 1919 Electric Railway Journal 155 physical measurements such as rail wear, efficiencyratings of generating equipment, etc. Payment in somecases is on the basis of a going concern. We Asked for Bread and They Gave Us a Stone This was the succinct summary of the situation byEmile Garcke, chairman British Electric Traction Com-pany, when asked what relief if any had resulted fromrecent legislation. The measure in question, passedby Parliament in 1918, authorized tramways to seekrelief by applying to the Board of Trade with proofthat their net revenues had been seriously decreasedduring the war. Since, as Mr. Garcke pointed out, tram-wa
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