100-passenger Buses for Ceylon
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C1NGLE-DECK buses capable of carry1,01 ing 100 passengers are to be introduced shortly in Ceylon. The oilengined Skoda chassis were -imported from Czechoslovakia and bodies have been built by the Ceylon Transport Board. The buses are 35 ft. tong, compared with the standard double-deckers now in operation, which carry 72 passengers.
Six Skodas are to be put into operation. These would normally cost £37,800, but the Transport Board have saved £10,800 by fitting their Own bodies.
Mercedes-Benz are supplying Ceylon
with 266 buses to carry 48 passengers each, 166 of them in chassis form. About 130 of these chassis have now arrived, and the Board hope to have the whole Mercedes fleet on the road within the next three months. Total cost of this order was £836,600.
Since Ceylon's buses were' nationalized last January, 982 buses have been imported, of which 550 have been fittc.d with bodies by the Board's staff of 214 bodybuilders.
Twenty-four two-wheeled baggage trailers are to be bought for use on longdistance services.