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MANCHESTER TO RUN AN OIL-ENGINED BUS
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A Crossley-Gardner Vehicle has been Purchased by the Corporation
MHE fact that Manchester Corpora tion has purchased for experimental purposes an off-eng,ined motorbus, which is to be put into service in the course of the next few weeks, was mentioned by the general manager, Mr. It. Stuart Pilcher, when he gave an address on Transport Problems to the Manchester Rotary Club. The machine, it is understood, will be supplied by Crossley Motors, Ltd., of Gorton, Manchester, which has supplied large numbers of vehicles to the corporation, and the engine will be manufactured by L. Gardner and Son, Ltd., of Patricroft, which company now specializes in this type of engine. In the course of his address Mr. 'Filcher gave some illuminating figures showing the public preference for buses. Since the conversion of the No. 53 circular route—which practically encircles the city of Manchester—to motorbus working, seven months ago, receipts had. he said, increased by £9,200 and 3,400,000 more Passengers had been carried.
At present further buses were on order to meet the ever-increasing needs of the area -nerved by the route, and it was likely that the oil-engined bus would be put on that service in order that exhaustive experiments might be made and comparisons reached between it and ordinary petrol machines. The oil engine, it was claimed, was capable of reducing working costs by 2d. a mile, and, as at present the undertaking ran at a profit of a fraction of a penny, such a reduction might lead to cheaper fares.
Discussing the comparative merits of trams and motorbuses Mr. Pilcher said that Manchester people were quite willing to pay 50 per cent. more to ride in a bus, and in the, past six months receipts over the whole municipal system had increased -by £31,0041 and 2,500,000 more passengers had been carried.
Following its policy of replacing, as necessary, trams by motorbuses on services linking up the city with important " dormitory " districts, the corporation has recently carried out the substitution of buses for trams on the Bradford Road route, which is about n miles long, and on Monday last double-deck buses were introduced on to the Altrincham route as a preliminary measure to the replacement of trams on that section.