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BRADFOR D City Council gave approval in principle, at its meeting on October 22, to the scheme which the. city engineer, Mr. S. G. Wardley, has prepared for remodelling the city's central area. The plan includes proposals to construct an outer and an inner ring road, and to prohibit through traffic and public-service vehicles in the main shopping zone.
The scheme is to be submitted to the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Town and Country Planning.
SPECIAL A.E.C. FOR URUGUAY
A LONG-DISTANCE Ado Regal stA coach which shows interesting differences of exterior design as compared with vehicles constructed for a similar purpose in this country, was recently placed in service by T.I.C. (Transportes Interprovinciales de Cuyo), Mendoza, Uruguay. Having as its basis a postwar Ado chassis, the coach has a locally built body, in which the roomy, full-fronted cab is a conspicuous feature. Not only does the rounded design of cab preserve the elegant lines of the vehicle, but, from the purely practical standpoint it allows greater freedom for maintenance. The. forward part of the body is anchored on extension pieces riveted to the chassis frame and a flexible canvas-tunnel connects the radiator grille v•ith the radiator occupying its normal position.
Seating accommodation is limited to 30 passengers and luggage is carried in under-floor lockers. The entrance is on the English off side, to conform with the right-hand rule of the road recently introduced in Uruguay. The operating company maintains a luxury service between Mendoza (capital of Mendoza Province) and Cordoba (capital of the Province of the same name). The route, which 460 miles long, passes through San Luis, Villa Mercedes, and Rio Cuarto, and is traversed in 15 hours.
BIG CALL FOR LEYLAND DOU BLE-DECKERS
AN analysis reveals that orders for well over 2,000 double-deck bus chassis, apart from the large demand which has arisen for single-deckers, have been placed with Leyland Motors, Ltd., within the past 12 months. This is equivalent to almost one-third of the total number of double-deck buses in service in municipalities throughout the country before the war.
Approximately 400 Leyland doubledeck chassis have been ordered for export alone, an exceptionally high iigure considering that the majority of operators overseas prefers singledeckers with large seating capacities.
Leyland single-deck chassis for overseas are built up from components similar to those used on the doubledeckers, so that on a single-deck bus, operators can safely carry almost the double-decker's complement.
WAR STORY OF THE TILLING GROUP WITH the title, "The War That Went VV on Wheels," a splendid 62-page book has been published as the war record of the Tilling group of companies. It is realistically written, well illustrated with line drawings and photographs, and covers the activities of 24 companies.
To quote the book, it is the story of ". . . the men behind the wheel and the men behind the organization. Of repairs and conversion, adapting and improvising, make do and mend. Of blitz and laughter, shattered roads and stout hearts. Work—always work; phenomenal hours and weeks and years of work—for the routes must be kept open and the buses sent out on time."
EDINBURGH TO RESTORE ALLNIGHT BUSES
EDINBURGH Public Utilities Committee has decided to restore the pre-war all-night bus service on two main city routes. Application is to be made to the Regional Transport Commissioners for approval of a 40-minute service operating from midnight to 5 a.m., except at week-ends.
MORE BUSES FOR TRAMS
BOLTON Transport Committee has been granted permission by the North-Western Traffic Commissioner to replace trams by buses on the BoltonHorwich route.
SHEFFIELD TO HIRE TO EASE PEAK-HOUR RUSH
TO relieve the strain on the bus services of Sheffield during the peak hours, the transport department is to hire some coaches. The staggering of workers' hours to ease transport congestion has been the subject of two conferences between employers and workers in the Sheffield area.
STANDING-PASSENGERS RULE TO STAY
" T DO not think an increase in
I standing passengers would be a satisfactory way of dealing with the problem of peak traffic." So said the Minister of Transport, in the House of Commons last week, replying to questions put by Mr. J. a Haire, and Mr. P. Freeman, on whether the order limiting the number of standing passengers in buses to five should be relaxed during the coming winter.
L.P.T.B:s BRILLIANT DRIVERS A .TOTAL of 2,293 country bus and .1-"V Green Line coach drivers entered the 1945 safe-driving competition organized by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. Despite the high standard of the competition, 2,103 drivers (nearly 92 per cent.) received awards for a year's perfect driving. Although most country bus and Green Line coach drivers did not enter the competition until after the Board was formed in 1933, there are already 19 men who received awards this year for continuous periods of safe driving varying from 15 to 20 years, A total of 213 more busmen have earned the gold medal and oak-leaf bar for 11 years' continuous safe.driving, and 120 the gold medal for 10 years.
Central bus drivers' results are to be announced shortly.
HONOUR TO MR. CAMPBELL-TAYLOR
ACOMPLIMENTARY dinner was given by the chairman and directors of the Trent Motor Traction Co., Ltd., to Mr. G. C. CampbellTaylor, on October 24, to mark the occasion of his recent retirement from the position of general manager.
Included among those present were Mr. R. P. Beddow, chairman; Mr. J. W. Womar, managing director; Mr. G. Morton and Mr. M. J. C. Taite, directors: Mr. C. W. Francis, secretary; Mr. J. Forster, general manager; Mr. R. C. Hunt, chief engineer; Mr. S. Ferry, traffic manager; Mr.. • A. E. Yeomans, accountant; and Mr. F. B. Watts.