Vehicle Operating Costs.
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IN this issue we devote some l0 pages to a completely revised series of The Commercial MotorTables of Operating Costs, which have been brought right up to date and embody
several novelties, including a division of
the standing charges and total costs into 4S-hour and 96-hour weeks. This
division applies to all vehicles with the
exception of battery electrics, andit is, of course, mainly brought about by the
need for double shifts on many buses and coaches. Then, there is a new table which concerns that latest development, the pneumatic tyred steam wagon.
These Tables of Costs are now accepted as a valuable standard by the whole of the road-transport industry.
They are constantly quoted as the authority, and they form a most accur ate basis upon which to work. Individ ual costs necessarily vary according to circumstances, but those which we give may be taken as the mean of thousands of vehicles working under all conditions of service. Operators who can do better than the mean are to be con
gratulated, whilst, unless the work is particularly .onerous or there are un
usual conditions pertaining to it, the figures which we give should not be greatly exceeded.
Na other journal in the transport world can give such great service to its readers as is afforded by these Tables;
the method of calculating them also forms useful supplementary information. These tables constitute a service which we have rendered for
nearly a quarter of a century.
The Tables will be reprinted as a handy brochure, which will be issued free, and early applications for copies are invited.