LATEST MOTOR 'BUS.
The process of perfecting the motor omnibus was advanced a stage when trial was made of the Tilling-Stevens vehicle. This is an electrically-driv-en 'bus, the power being generated by a petrol engine. Tests had already been made on hilly roads, and these had. been so successful that Messrs Tilling and Stevens have put seven on the route letween Peckham and Turnham Green.
After the test a luncheon was held at the Holborn restaurant when Mr Richard Tilling said that 150 of tlie new vehicles had been ordered. Other proprietors had been so favorably impressed by its powers that* over 100 had been ordered from the province and abroad. Mr W. A. Stevens described the new vehicle as one with all the advantages r.nd none of tlie drawbacks of the steam car. Mr Frost-Smith said that cos; of running the geared petrol omnibus o? to-day %as about 10.52 d per mile, whereas the new petrol-electric vehicle should nor cost more than 7%d per mile. Among its other advantages lie pointed out that instead of being overhauled every night, as all but the most recent types of petrol omnibuses had to be, it only needed one day in ten. It was a great ad~ vantage, he said, to have obviated the necessity for n%ht work. \
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Northern Advocate, 15 February 1912, Page 2
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