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operators in Ceylon have decided to replace double-deckers with singledeck 64-passenger types. Now that Colombo Municipal Council have been allowed to run trolleybuses, it is expected that six single-deckers, each capable of carrying 90 people, will be ordered. They will be 35 ft. long and 8 ft. 2 in. wide.
Twelve Colombo operators have been ordered by the Commissioner of Motor Traffic to put 280 more buses on the road by May, 1956. The Sri Lanka Omnibus Co. have been asked to increase their fleet by 92 buses. They have 215 at present.
The High Level Road Omnibus Co. have to add 65 buses to their 110; the North Western Blue Line, 61 to 82; the Gamini Omnibus Co., 28 to 51; and the Colombo Omnibus Co., 19 to 97.
Other operators who have to buy more buses but already have almost as many as they will require are the Elmo Bus Co., Colombo-Ratnapum Bus Co„ Castle Omnibus Co., Pusphayana Omnibus Co., Ebert Silva Bus Co. and K.B.L. Perera Omnibus Co.
The South Western Bus Co., who need only 198 hoses for their routes, have 313.
DUKE TO SEE SHOW
THE Aluminium Exhibition at the Royal Festival Halt will he visited on June 3 by the Duke of Edinburgh. The Exhibition, which is to be held from June 1-10, marks the centenary of aluminium as .a commercial metal. Bus bodies will be among the 1,000 exhibits.
A PETROL TURBINE?
AN engineer of Los Angeles, Mr. Walter F. Strader, claims to have developed a chcular petrol engine in which there are no cylinders. pistons, valves or crankshaft. It is air cooled.