MUNICIPAL BUS RESULTS FROM MANY CENTRES
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LOSS AT DONCASTER.
ANET loss on Doncaster CorporaLion's tramways system, during the past financial year, is shown in the annual balance sheet. The deficit on the tramways revenue account now amounts to £13,308. On the trolleybuses there was a net profit of £5,011— an increase of £3,452, against a rise in expenditure of £783—and a net profit on the motorbuses of £4,637.
The deficit on the transport undertaking now amounts to £4,176, and it is hoped that this item will disappear by the end of March, 1935.
MORE BIRMINGHAM FIGURES.
A MPLIFYING information that we tiliave already published concerning the operation of municipal buses and trolleybuses at Birmingham during the year ended March 31, 1934, the report recently issued by the corporation shows that its 496 petrol buses are in use on a route mileage of 125, whilst the 66 trolleybuses operated on a route mileage slightly exceeding seven.
During the past year the former carried 142,054,767 passengers and the latter 8,582,508 passengers, the aggre gate mileage of the petrol buses being 16,223,204 and of the trolleybuses 607,954.
In the past year the total revenue on the petrol buses was £1,009,574, and total operating expenses £776,584, the comparable returns for the trolleybuses being £42,524 and £31,438 respectively. so that the gross profit on the petrol buses was £232,990 and on the trolleybuses £11,086.
CARDIFF TRAMS TO GO IN 10 YEARS?
rARD1FF Transport Committee, at its July meeting, passed a resolution congratulating Mr. William Forbes, transport manager, on the good results of the past financial year, especially in view of adverse circumstances.
The city treasurer said that 55.46 per cent, of the capital liability on the city's passenger-carrying undertaking had now been paid off. In 10 years the remaining £217,000 loan debt would be cleared off and then the corporation might wholly substitute buses for trams.
The year's working resulted in a net loss of £1,144 on the buses. LIVERPOOL BUS LOSSES LOWER.
FURTHER to short paragraphs that have already appeared in our columns, it is now shown by the report of Liverpool Corporation Tramways and Omnibus Department that, in the year ended March 31, 1934, the net deficit on the operation of the buses amounted to £74,887, this figure including interest and sinking-fund charges of £61,655. The loss on the operation of the buses is less by £10,647 than for the previous year, but, despite this fact and the additional loss of £11,385 sustained by Liverpool Corporation on the operation by Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., of certain Bootle bus services, the net profit on the operation of the whole undertaking increased by £39,209.
The buses are operated on a route mileage of 203 and, during the year under review, carried 23,283,319 passengers, the aggregate mileage amounting to 3,315,452. During the past year total revenue amounted to £178,240, whilst operating costs totalled £191,473. At the end of March last, the capital expenditure on the bus system amounted to 1324,350.