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... recently gave the figures of accidents :aused by niotor-'buses in London for the month of April, which ire as follows Horse-Omnibus. Motor-Omnibuses. Accidents 265 424 Injuries 47 76 Deaths I 3 Other Horse Vehicles. Other Motor Vehicles. Accidents 2,233 ...
... beyond the pale. The great question now is, can the electric-omnibus be considered a tramway, or is it merely a vulgar horse-omnibus It is universally agreed that the matter can onlv be settled oy tne present goou-naiureu Crown Princess. There are some ...
... great, and the car for the man of moderate means may yet be an actual fact. The dividends of the London General Motor v. Horse Omnibus Company and the Road Car Omnibus Company prove the popularity of the mechanically propelled vehicles. The comparisons of ...
... long notoriously existed between the rival horsed- omnibus companies. The chief cause of obstruction and congestion continues to be the slow-moving vehicle, which will not keep to the left, and the horsed omnibus, which, when it does keep to the left, yet ...
... the same injuries had been inflicted by a horse-drawn vehicle. The other day, a motor omnibus injured the driver of a horse omnibus so- severely that he will not be able to work for at least a year, and possibly may never entirely recover. He claimed ...
... daily task it is to handle huge omnibuses full of passengeTs. There is no parallel between such a task and the work of the horsed omnibus driver, whose cattle are. things of intelligence accustomed to the exi gencies of street traffic and capable of correcting ...
... has come about that the slowest mode of travelling on English roads is by coach and four. Even the well-nigh extinct two-horse omnibus was a six-mile- an-hour traveller, and it is unlucky for the coaching revival that the slowest has already gone to the ...
... old order is, of course, gradually changing and giving place to the new. but the very w id°ena of the good old jog.t^Hng horse omnibus passing quickly, or doing anything quickly, is in itself an anomaly from which we hope the lover of ancient institutions ...
... THE NEWSLETTER: Week by Week. I i I Exit the Last Paris Horse Omnibus.-- The disappearance from the streets of Paris of the last of the horse-drawn omnibuses was celebrated with mock solemnity last Saturday by thousands of people who gathered in front ...
... course of a coach. But a number of the old omnibus drivers who had always saluted the coachmen as they passed, for every horse-omnibus driver hoped that he might in time drive four horses became in their turn the chauffeurs of motor-omnibuses, and brought ...
... easily the least smart thing in the procession. It was all so like the London of old that if, immediately after wards, a horse-omnibus had appeared round the corner of Wellington Street with a male con ductor nobody would have been surprised. T The attention ...
... garden. Our temperatures rose very easily in the years before the war, and one cannot help wondering what the public of the horse-omnibus period would have made of the Glad Week. The bonfire was, like most bonfires, rather a disappointment. Oxford discovered ...