MANCHESTER BUS STATISTICS.
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• According to the Annual report on the
passenger vehicle services 11112. the -Manchester Corporation the motorbuses in the service Of the corporation eovered 545,618 miles during the; year ended. March 31st last, as Compared• with 40v-1,765 for the correSpOncling period of the 'previous year. The passengers carried numbered 3,823,355; as compared with 2,590.400 a 3,-tar earlier.
Traffic revenue per bus-mile amounted to 15.351., as compared with 17.431. in the previous year, whilst the working • expenses per bus-mile totalled 1.2.4081., as against 15.2731. in the previous 12 months. The percentage of working expenses to receipts was 80.8 for the past
✓ e?ar and 87.6 for the preceding period. Tim average fare paid per passenger was 2.18d., and the-average number of Passengers carried. perlibus-mile—based on the number of tickets issued –was seven, this figure representing an increase of 1.4 over that forAhe period.hcovered. by the previous report.
According to the revenue account for the buses,' the traffic expenses absorbed £14,058, equivalent to 6.207d. per bus mile; general expenses, £3,1726, or 1.38d. per bus-mile; whilst repairs and maintenance involved an expenditure of £6,225, i.e., 2.748d. pet bus-mile. In each instance these expeuses are somewhat lower than those for the previous 12 months,
, The number of motorbuses in service on March 31st of this year was 25, the fleet being composed of ten Daimler cloubie-deacem; five A.E.C. doubledeckers, tight 'carrier one-man-eontrolled-type vehicles and two Vulcan of a similar description.