. Electric railway journal . H FRONT DOORW.\T per cent; while the receipts per seat-mile providedwere cents for the bus and cents for thecar, an excess of 98 per cent. Although the bus faresaveraged 3 cents a mile against cents a mile forthe car, an excess of 130 per cent, the higher rate andslightly higher speed were not sufficient to offset thehigher cost of giving bus service. With regard to speed,Mr. Fearnley noted that as about three-fourths of thebus operation was in open country, a superiority of per cent for the bus ( ) was not impo
. Electric railway journal . H FRONT DOORW.\T per cent; while the receipts per seat-mile providedwere cents for the bus and cents for thecar, an excess of 98 per cent. Although the bus faresaveraged 3 cents a mile against cents a mile forthe car, an excess of 130 per cent, the higher rate andslightly higher speed were not sufficient to offset thehigher cost of giving bus service. With regard to speed,Mr. Fearnley noted that as about three-fourths of thebus operation was in open country, a superiority of per cent for the bus ( ) was not important. Mr. Fearnley might haveadded that the speed of the buses would have beenconsiderably less if they had been seventy-six seaterslike the cars, and operated under like conditions oftraffic. While the Sheffield management is well aware of thehigher cost of the bus on any comparable basis, it doesnot hesitate to recommend the installation of motorbuses where thin-traffic extensions, cross-town routes, JW^>^W^ IBHHfflEll. SINGLE-DECK BUS WITH BAGGAGE RACK, USED FORRAILROAD STATION CONNECTIONS high-grade residential districts and seasonal pleasureroutes are to be served. In fact, it also considers thepossibility of paralleling a tramway route, or runningtoward the same terminus, for purposes of traffic relief. London General Omnibus Company No LongerA Bonanza Without questioning the value of the motor bus forthe various purposes outlined in these articles, it isnecessary to emphasize the fact that the bus does notcure all the difficulties incident to transportation onrails and that it is not exempt from the necessity ofearning more than it spends. For these reasons, it iswell to look closely into the operations and history ofthe London General Omnibus Company, because con-scienceless bus promotors in this countrj^ are pointingit out as the embodiment of everything thats excel-lent in the way of making money. A recent prospectus,for example, declares that: The £100 shares of
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