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15th October 1965
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order received frono the Lisbon ark Tramways Ltd., Portugar, Daimler Fleetline rear-engined leek bus chassis marks the ; of Transport Vehicles Daintier) :!ovento. into the Portuguese The chassis will be shipped be assembled and tined with 78ouble-deck bus bodies designed onstructed by the operating y.

latest Mark IV chassis will be id, powered by a Gardner 6IX nginc developing 150 b.h.p., and itb the standard Daimatic semilc transmission and droppedear axle. Delivery of the 40 buses or completion towards the end of tr.

Lsgow Crews Rebel IlLga.inst Assaults •

OW CORPORATION bus crews Ibrox have refused Co work after on Fridays and Saturdays, peak or hooliganism. In the past year an 100 cases of assaults on bus lye occurred. The main trouble is in routes on the south side of the J it is these routes which are ; all other services are being conormally.

has been considerable criticism by lien that offenders taken before the Les are dealt with less severely than Lion warrants. Extended time to pay permitted and other arrangements. licit reduce the penalties. There was lemand for a return to birching in assault. hut this was turned down nagistrates.

Ms Overweight: The Dennis Pax ..v.„ described on page 79 of the Guide to British Commercial_ published in The Commercial Motor Per I. has a gross weight of 6 tons and not 8 tons 10 cwt. as published. WHILST most of the BET Federation VI' companies continue to standardize on normal underfloor-engined singledeckers, including Ribble, who placed a prototype Leyland Panther in service last year, three BET companies, East Yorkshire, Maidstone and District and City of Oxford are introducing rear-underfloor-enginecf single-deckers. In the case of Maidstone and District, 15 Leyland

Panthers are being introduced. and the bodies, built by Willowbrook Ltd.. have been made in two capacities-53-seaters for crew-operated services and 45-seaters for one-man services.

The bench seats over the front wheelarch of the 53-seaters have been shortened to provide luggage accommodation and the last three rows of seats arranged on the five-across principle.

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Locations: Lisbon, Oxford

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