20-year Bus Life Questioned "Garden-seaters" Again —for a Day
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T"wisdom of the transport committee's policy of estimating the life. of buses at.20 years was questioned by Cllr. S. Ralphs at last week's meeting of Manchester City Council.
Appealing to the chairman to consider, in the interests of economy, the replacement of vehicles after 10 or 12 years' service, Cllr. Ralphs suggested that according to recent figures, the transport department spent £600,000 a year on repairs, apart from normal maintenance.
That represented about 31d. a mile and, as at least one in seven buses was between 16 and 20 years old, the cost of repairs for some of them must work out at Is. a mile.
Cllr. H. Sharp said the committee would agree to a reduction of the life of their buses if it could be proved that they would save anything by doing so. From experience they were satisfied that present policy was the most economical.
DEFECTIVE VEHICLE INSURED
WHEN a van owner was fined a total of £27 at Ironbridge last week for using a vehicle in a dangerous condition, a long list of defects was recounted to the magistrate, whose clerk asked how such vehicles became insured. Insp. H. L. Speake said that it was "a miracle " to him. Alfred Wilkes, 7 Wesley Road, Ironbridge, timber feller, the defendant, said that the van had been scrapped.
"NUCLEAR ENGINEERING"
THE first number of Nuclear Engineering, a new monthly industrial journal published by Temple Press Ltd., is now on sale. Designed to cover all phases of world industrial production and use of nuclear energy and its by-products, Nuclear Engineering costs 3s. 6d. a copy, or by subscription 42s. a year, and is obtainable from newsagents or from the publishers.
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"pARDEN-SEAT" and -knifeboaril" %-.1 double-deck buses that served Londoners in the past century will appear in a procession of early types of bus which the London Transport Executive are to stage as part of their centenary celebrations this year. The organizers are seeking permission to hold the procession in a Royal.park on July 17.
It is proposed that drivers, conductors and passengers in the vehicles shall be dressed in contemporary costumes, and there are plans for trips by members of the public. Special tickets will be prepared and issued as souvenirs of the occasion.
An exhibition of equipment used during the past 100 years will also he held at Charing Cross Underground station.