Dual-purpose GaragE for Edinburgh
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EDINBURGH Corporation Transport' new Marine Garage at Portobelli opened by the Lord Provost last Friday provides public car and coach parkin facilities as well as covered accommoda tion for 130 buses belonging to the mun. eipal fleet. Portobello is a seaside resoi three miles from the centre of Edinburg and the new garage occupies a prominer site adjoining the promenade, formerl used as a speedway track.
The bus services operated from th garage are those covering the PortobeIl area, which have had to be worked frac other. garages since the replacement o trams by buses. The department's forme tram depot in Portobello High Street wa not suitable for conversion.
In addition to the garaging facilitie the new building with three 86-ft. bay provides two fuelling points, a soap was' gantry and a Dawson bus washin machine fitted with pre-wash equipmeni A workshop partitioned off from th main garage has five 40-ft.-long dockin and repair pits, and there is a chassi cleaning pit in an annex alongside. Tw. inspection pits are also provided in th main garage.
The office block on the south side corn prises administration offices, canteer muster room and recreation worn. Features of the muster room are a dro safe installation for conductors' collec tions and the storage of ticket machine in lockers with individual keys issued t. conductors which give access to thei own machines only,
The external public parking facilitie give accommodation for 150 cars and 6 visiting coaches. In view of the positio. of the site, provision has been made fo screening the building by rows of tree and shrubs on the three sides which fac public right-of-way.
In the transport manager's report it i stated that the working of the Transpor Department during the financial yea ended May 28, 1962, ended with a surplu of £20,181 after writing off the remainde of the tramway debt and making som provision for the renewal of buses am other capital expenditure. This had bee, made possible by the introduction of fares increase introduced on July 2, 1961
Bus Take-over BAXTER'S BUS SERVICE LTD., o I-1 Airdrie and Coatbridge, Lanark shire, has been acquired by Scottisl Omnibuses Ltd., and will be taken ove by the company on December 17. Then is a fleet of 52 buses with a staff of 22C
The ACLO Regal Mk. VI with Verheul bodywork for operation in Peru has characteristic European lines and departs considerably from the somewhat austere appearance hitherto often favoured for city service buses in South America. ACLO is the registered name under which A.E.C. products are sold in that continent.
London Transport LLONDON TRANSPORT bus workshop staff are to get pay rises of between 10s. 6d. and 12s. 6d. a week. This will bring the pay of the 4,500 men concerned into line with that of the Underground workshop staff. Present rates range from £8 19s. 6d. for a labourer to £10 14s. for Workshop Pay Rise
a skilled man. These will become £9 lOs and £11 6s. 6d. This latest agreemen will cost the L.T.E.more than £130,000 a year.
Meanwhile the T.G.W.U. has approve4 the pay and hours claim for L.T.E. bu crews and maintenance staffs.