Glasgow to Experiment with Freeline Crush-loader
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EXPERIMENTS with a maximum-capacity single-deck trolleybus are now being extended to a motorbus of similar type by Glasgow Transport Department. A Daimler Freeline with Alexander coachwork has recently been delivered for trials during the New Year. It is 8 ft. wide and 30 ft. long, and has 32 seats and room for at least 30 standing passengers.
The frame of the body is of steel and the panelling is in light alloy. There is a central entrance 4 ft. 6 ins, wide and the centre gangway is 3 ft. wide. The driver is partly partitioned off and a demister is incorporated in the bodywork. An emergency door is fitted at the rear. The body is slightly tapered at each end, thus avoiding the " square-box " appearance often found in this type of vehicle, and it serves to reduce the swept circle.
STATION FOR COACH PARK? .A .PROPOSAL PROPOSAL that the municipality
should purchase Kemp Town railway station for use as a coach park is to he considered by Brighton Town Council at its meeting next month. The matter came before the council last week, but decision was deferred. The major developments committee considers that the station is the most suitable site for a new coach park, which would do away with the present one at Madeira Drive.
£50,000 GARAGE PLANS
ASCHEME to rebuild Andover bus station at a cost of £50,000 is to be started next June by the Wilts and Dorset Motor Services, Ltd. All existing buildings will be demolished and a block of offices and a waiting room erected. A garage block will be built on waste ground at the rear of the site.
£200 A YEAR COMPENSATION WHEN Liverpool Transport Department applied to the North Western Licensing Authority to run buses on certain routes outside the city boundary, it was stated that the corporation would pay ENO a year compensation to St. Helens Corporation for any possible loss of revenue it might suffer as a result of the proposed service.
St. Helens Corporation objected to the application, which was granted.It was intimated that the question of compensation would be reviewed later.