LONDON TRANSPORT'S THREE YEARS' WORK
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IN a review of three years' work of London Transport, which he delivered last week, Lord Ashfield, the chairman, said that the Board had consolidated 155 separate transport undertakings, apart from pooling the suburban services of the main-line railways. The total stock of the Board was valued at over £111,000,000.
Whereas the previous undertakings employed 72,000 people, the Board controlled 78,500 operatives. Last year, 3,582,000,000 passengers were carried, motorbuses being responsible for 58 per cent., trams and trolleybuses 29 per cent., railways 12i per cent., and coaches, per cent. Fares paid aggregated £13,500,000, Bus services had been inaugurated on 100 miles of new routes.
Lord Ashfield explained that under the Board's present development programme, 185 Miles of tramways would be replaced by trolleyhus services, whilst eventually the remaining 148 miles of tramways would similarly be abandoned. To deal with the immediate extension, 1,019 trolleybuscs would be built.
455 DAIMLERS IN ONE FLEET.
WITH the completion of the latest YV order for 70 buses, Birmingham Corporation will have no fewer than 455 Daimler vehicles-the largest municipal fleet of any one make. This big fleet has been ordered in little over three years.
NEW U.A.S. STATION.
ON Monday, United Automobile Services, Ltd., opened a new bus station at Northallerton, Yorkshire. Tha ceremony was performed by Lady Maxwell, wife of the chairman of the Northern Traffic Commissioners.