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LEICESTER'S GROWING BUS FLEET.
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The Past Year's Report of the Corporation Reveals the Progressive Character of the Bus System.
MEE Leicester Corporation coml_ menced the operation of motorbus services on July 24th, 1924, so that the report of the general manager of the tramways and motorbus department, Mr. H. Pool, 31.1ust.T., which has just been issued for the year ended March 31st last, deals with the third complete year of running such services. In the intervening period the corpora tion has built up a fleet of useful size, which at the end of March last comprised 33 units, 19 of them (11 56seaters and eight 25-seaters) being of Guy make, and the others (50-seaters) Tilling-Stevens.
An interesting feature is that the largest capacity buses are six-wheelers running on pneumatic tyres, whilst further six vehicles of a similar type
have been ordered. During the past year six Tilling-Stevens single-deck buses were converted into 50-seater covered-top double-deckers, and in the same period 19 new machines were purchased and put into service. These additions to the fleet have necessitated the provision of further accommodation for housing the vehicles, and extensions are being carried out at the bus garage. The old single-deck bodies removed from the Tilling-Stevens chassis are being used in a variety of ways, and in our issue dated June 26th we illustrated one of them serving the purpose of a waiting-room for passengers at the terminus of the Coleman Road route of the tramways system.
The report shows that in the past municipal year the buses ran a total mileage of 658,305 and carried 6,044,904 passengers. . The total receipts from the operation of the vehicles amounted to £43,148, whilst the total working expenses are returned at £35,612, the per mile return for these items being 15.730d. and 12.983d. respectively. The gross profit was thus £7,536, against which is charged interest and sinking, fund £3,295, so that the net surplus is £4,241, equivalent to 1.546d. per bus-mile.
The buses were run on five separate sectionS, the mileages covered and passengers carried being as follow :— Evington Valley Road, 114,744 miles, 1,229,850 passengers; Saffron Lane via Aylestone Road, 415,938 miles, 3,041,320 passengers ; Gipsy Lane, 54,980 miles, 393,892 passengers ; Saffron Lane via Welferd Road, 28,248
miles, 155,081 passengers; Coalpit Lane, 29,210 miles, 326,7'61 passengers. In addition on buses used for special • work 15,185 passengeres were carried. The total mileage of the routes is 11.59.
The outgoings in connection with the operation of the buses were made up as follow :—Traffic expenses, £20,637; cost of repairs and maintenance, £5,763 ; cost of motor spirit, £4,731; general expenses, £3,704; superannuation, £776.
The borrowing powers sanctioned for the bus system total £53,392, £2,900 of which have expired, the whole, of the remainder having been exereised. The gross capital expenditure on the system Las been £67,529.
In the year under review the average number of passengers carried per busmile was 9.185.