. Electric railway journal . rated more economically with a tramway assoon as conditions warrant a car interval of ten minutesor less. The capital charges on a tramway are too highto justify construction for a less traffic density than a bus it does not matter whether the service ishalf-hourly or hourly, because the capital expenditure isalmost in direct proportion to the number of buses. The bus services of the British Electric TractionCompany are largely of this intermediate nature. Thefares charged are invariably higher than the tramwayfares. When the buses happen to run over a ca
. Electric railway journal . rated more economically with a tramway assoon as conditions warrant a car interval of ten minutesor less. The capital charges on a tramway are too highto justify construction for a less traffic density than a bus it does not matter whether the service ishalf-hourly or hourly, because the capital expenditure isalmost in direct proportion to the number of buses. The bus services of the British Electric TractionCompany are largely of this intermediate nature. Thefares charged are invariably higher than the tramwayfares. When the buses happen to run over a car routefor part of the way the minimum fare on the bus isplaced at a figure which will reserve it for the suburbanlong-distance rider for whom it is intended. For any tramway a number of buses could be ac-quired as a wise way of determining the ultimate traf-fic possibilities of new districts and of supplementingpleasure-travel facilities, particularly as buses may bediverted at short notice to wherever a traffic Probably no one man has had a widerexperience in the promotion, construc-tion and operation of British tramwaysand electric light and power installa-tions than Emile Garcke, presi-dent of the British Electrical Associa-tion and for many years the managingdirector and now the chairman of theBritish Electric Traction Company. TheB. E. T., as it is popularly known, con-trols outright or is associated withabout sixty tramway, electric supplyand other electrical undertakings having a subscribed shareand debenture capital of about £24,000,000. The associatedtramway companies operate about 430 miles of route andcarry about 405,000,000 passengers per annum. In theearliest days of electricity, Mr. Garcke was active in manu-facture and installation. Between 1883 and 1893 he waswith the Brush Company. In 1893 he became managingdirector of the Electric Construction Corporation andshortly thereafter managing director of the British Elec-tric Traction Company. Aside fr
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