Loss of £65,250 at Blackpool in 1956?
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A BALANCE of £46,449 at the ti beginning of the current financial year may have become a loss of £65,250 by the end of March, 1956, according to an interim report which the new general manager of Blackpool Transport Department, Mr. J. C. Franklin, has presented to the transport committed.
Mr.. Franklin calls it a " rather disturbing financial position," and says he will be presenting a further report in two or three months' time, when he has been able to investigate the operation of all departments of the undertaking.
According to the report, the renewal of tram tracks would cost £42,000 this year, compared with £8,863 in 1953-54.
"My impression," states Mr. Franklin in his report, "is that we have too many buses and tramcars in total, in service and out-of service, and that a substantial number of both types of vehicle should be scrapped. . . ."