TEESSIDE TO SUSPEND ORDERS
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A RECOMMENDATION has been made by Mr. W. C. Wilson, manager of the new Tees side Borough Transport undertaking to come into being in April, next year, that Stockton-on-Tees Corporation and the Tees-side Railless Traction Board should suspend orders for 13 Leyland Atlantean double-deck buses. Mr. Wilson said that owing to the existing financial position of the undertakings, the orders should be put off until it was clearer what services the new Tees-side transport authority would need.
Seven of the buses were for Stockton and the remainder for the Tees-side Board. However, Middlesbrough Corporation's order for 10 Daimler Fleetlines will be allowed to stand, and Stockton also has three Leyland Atlanteans on order for delivery early in 1968. Suspending the other orders will save about £100,000. Mr. Wilson is advocating the extensive use in future of one-man singledecker buses.