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Oilers to Replace Trolleybuses

13th March 1959, Page 77
13th March 1959
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Keywords : Pontypridd

PROPOSAL by Manchester Transport Committee to replace trolleys on two routes by oil-engined buses approved last week by the city lei!. Ir. Harry Sharp, a member of the ;port committee, said that 27 of the eybuses needed replacement. A eybus cost £800 more than an ()Riled vehicle. The overhead equip on the routes would have to be wed at a'cost of £1,500 a mile, and )00 would have to be spent on new ey poles.

mdon Transport last week replaced zybuses by motorbuses on three

1VINGS INSTEAD OF HIGHER FARES

ffsITYPRIDD'S future policy in nunicipal transport will be to make economies and eliminate all .otitable mileage, This action is to akcn in preference to raising fares. Herbert Gardiner, chairman of the ;port committee, said last week that ter increases in fares could not be ated. le South Wales Traffic Commissioners week authorized a reduced Sunday Jency on the Porth-Pontypridd route .n application by Pontypridd Urban -jet Council and Rhondda Transport Ltd.

NOTTINGHAM'S HISTORY

HISTORY of the city's transport undertaking, which began in 1897 the corporation took over the ingham and District Tramways Co., be printed by Nottingham Transport mittee. It has been written by Mr. darshall, a former schedule clerk le department, who is now traffic intendent at Southport. It will be tie in a few months' time at 5s.

N.C.R.T.C.H. GUEST

E Earl of Gosford, spokesman for he Minister of Transport in the ,e of Lords, will be the guest of the mal Conference of Road Transport 'ing Houses at their annual .luncheon e May Fair Hotel, Berkeley Street, on, W.1, on March 19. The Associ's dinner-dance will be held at the place on March 18.

,NGINEER'S APPOINTMENT

E appointment of Mr. G. M. Cutler is chief technical executive of the motive Products Co., Ltd., and its iates, Borg and Beck Co., Ltd., and' heed Hydraulic Brake Co., Ltd., tnnounced on Tpesday. Mr. Cutler previously with Humber, Ltd., as engineer of the Long Term Projects ion.

SHARES OFFER LAPSES

offer by Neville Industrial ;ecurities, on behalf of their prin:, to buy the shares of -Westover ges, Lid., has lapsed.


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