TILLING TO OPERATE TROLLEYBUSES ?
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I T is revealed in the report of the 41st annual general meeting of Thomas Tilling, Ltd., held last week, that profits were made by all of the 40 companiea comprising the Tilling group.
The net profits, after providing for debenture stock interest, depreciation and all other charges, amounted to £456,398, representing a considerable increase on previous years.
The sale of the company's tramway undertaking to Bristol Corporation realized a sum of £1,125,000, long-outstanding problems affecting passenger transport in Bristol having been solved by a scheme of co-operation between the corporation and the company's city bus services.
Should the proposals put forward in connection with .Brighton Corporation be finally approved, the company will, for the first time, operate a limited number of trolleybuses.
Mersey Tunnel Bus Service?
I T is reported that there is now a possibility of a compromise being reached between the Mersey Tunnel Joint Committee and Birkenhead Corporation, whereby a saving of about £40,000 a year on the Birkenhead ferries may be effected. It is understood that the question of a bus service through the tunnel will shortly come up for consideration.
Dundee to Spend £21,530 on Buses.
THE transport committee of Dundee Corporation this week approved of tenders amounting to £21,530, for 16 new buses-12 single-deckers and four double-deckers.
Mr. Robert Taylor, transport manager, stated that the buses would all be oilers. He recommended that the four double-deckers should be A.E.C. chassis, at £1,105 each, and that the 12 single-decker chassis should be Daimlers, at £1,090 10s. each. The recommendation with regard to the bodies was that they should be supplied by Metropolitan Cammell Weymann, Ltd.
The question was raised as to why an English bodybuilder should be preferred to a local manufacturer, it being pointed out that there was one in
Dundee, which had been to a certain extent reconstructed with capital available. As a gesture to the local concern, it was suggested it be given an order for two bodies as an experiment.
The committee accepted the tender of the •M.C.W. concern., for four double-decker bodies at £1,003 each. Itwas agreed to defer the tenders for the bodies for the single-deckers, pending a visit by a sub-committee to the local bodybuilder concerned.
Pensions Scheme Follows Wage Increase.
APENSIONS scheme, to cover its ,100 employees, has been started by the Lancashire United Transport and Power Co., Ltd.
The minimum premium is 1s. per
week, which will entitle the employee to a pension of 10s. a week, at the age of 65.
It was only recently that the company gave an increase to its drivers and conductors of 2s. a week, so that the introduction of the pensions scheme is suggestive of considerable goodwill on the part of the company.
£300,000 BUS STATION PROJECT
A FURTHER proposal has been made ttin connection with the Edinburgh bus station controversy. It visualizes the use of East Queen Street Gardens, suggests accommodation for handling 50 buses at one time, a car park for 500 private cars under cover, and 500 in an open parking space, and a roof garden with dining-hall to seat between 400 and 500 persons. The estimated cost of the scheme is said to be between £200,000 and £300,000.
Plans will be submitted to the Lord Provost's committee next week, along with other suggested schemes. A feature of the proposal is the one-way travel ; all buses enter by one large door in Queen Street and, travelling in one direction after setting down passengers at the arrival platform, proceed immediately by an easy ramp to the departure platform.
Speeding the Parting Guest.
THE speeding up of Leicester's trams forms the subject of an application to the Minister of Transport from Leicester Corporation's transport committee. The speeds of trams are fixed by law, and the conditions applying to them are different from those governing other forms of road transport.