Trams v. Buses Political Dispute
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WHY did Sheffield Corporation's W tramways incur a loss of £97,014 during the past financial year, whereas the motorbus services made a profit of -141,343? This question was raised at the City council's meeting last week. Aid. T. W. Bridgland, Labour chairman of the passenger transport committee, said that the main factor tending to cause the trams to incur a loss was that the trams were carrying the whole of the overheads in garage accommodation.
Coun. R. Neill, Conservative-Liberal, said that the onus was on the ruling party of the council, the Labour group, to say whether the corporation were going to abolish the tramways. Declaring that there would be no need to increase fares if the department were to stop competing with itself between trams and motorbuses, Court. Neill suggested that the corporation's order for 35 tramcars be cancelled.
Md. FL W. Jackson, ConservativeLiberal, said that he was not surprised that the Socialists could not make the undertaking pay. it had been running on its own momentum for 20 years; the Socialists had done nothing except spoil it.