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Eighties challenge
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CRYSTAL-BALL gazing by speakers contributing to a plenary session on The Challenge of the Transport Act at the CPT conference provided a reasonably optimistic vision of public transport in the Eighties.
Geoffrey Hilditch of Leicester City Transport said the Transport Act would have little significant effect on vehicle design as the industry would still need a safe bus with a good environment and ride, which was reliable, cheap to buy, and cheap to run.
He stressed that the bus was a traffic and not an engineering tool. The transmission on rearengined modern buses was the Achilles heel of modern transport and Mr Hilditch envisaged 8 new, simplified and smaller fluic flywheel-controlled four-clutclfour-speed gearbox which coulc improve the situation in thE Eighties.
From the operators' point o. view, Ron Whittle was optimistit about the way the industr) would react to the challenge o the Eighties and welcomed thi quality control aspects of thi Act.