SUCCESS OF THE MOTOR 'BUS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 19 September 1913, Page 4

SUCCESS OF THE MOTOR 'BUS.

Although the motor omnibus in an un-gainly-looking vehicle, it has proved a remarkable commercial success in London. Its popularity has grown so quickly that there are now over 3000 of them on the streets of the metropolis. The experiment tried this year for the firsttime of running motor 'bus services to holiday resorts within thirty miles of London has also proved a success. , A new company is now being formed to run motor 'buses in all the large provincial cities and towns of England, and to include services from these centres, to surrounding holiday resorts. If the company is successful in carrying out these plans it will subsequently connect up by the motpr-'bus the large cities and towns with' surrounding villages, and eventually, if the scheme is fully developed, it will be possible to go the length and breadth of England by transferring from one 'bus service to another. In fact, there is some probability that the irotor-'bus, which has earned the name of being the poor man's mot©r-car, will do almost as much in making the country available for the enjoyment oi the poor man as the motor-car has done for the rich. One of the most marked features of this year's Derby at Epsom was the enormous number of motor cars on the road, and another was the unexpectedly large number of motor 'buses that had been privately chartered by holiday parties.