Birmingham Will Buy 50 to 100 Buses
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BETWEEN 50 and 100 new buses will be bought in 1962 by Birmingham Transport Department, the transport committee announced last week. Aid. L. Chaffey, chairman, said the vehicles would be larger, in order to give passengers more comfort, and to increase receipts. They would be paid for out of reserves and revenue.
Aid. -Chaffey was defending a special report on the undertaking which was compiled by the committee after the West Midland Traffic Commissioners had suggested that economies might be made. In their remarks last year, the Commis-, sioners said that when replacements took place it might be a good idea for the city to buy less elaborately designed buses. Countering an attack on the report by the Conservative group, Aid. IIarry Whatton said the committee had considered buying 72and 75-seater buses without standing room when the 1962 . replacements were made. Fifty or 100 vehicles would be acquired. He added that although the department was running at a loss, private companies, such as the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co.. Ltd., were faring even worse.
For the Conservatives, alt.. R. A. Holland, a former member of the Committee, said: " It is wrong that the transport committee should inquire into its own affairs, pass judgment on them, and then present a report which justifies itself."