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Bus industry D-day is February 21

18th September 1970, Page 120
18th September 1970
Page 120
Page 120, 18th September 1970 — Bus industry D-day is February 21
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• Although D for Decimal Currency Day generally is February 15, 1971, the bus industry is to have its own D-Day on Sunday February 21—six days later—in order to allow time for the coins to circulate. This will give both the public and the industry extra time to adjust to the new currency.

This is revealed by Ribble Motor Services Ltd which is commencing its decimal training programme in October, using four mobile classrooms, each in the charge of Ribble inspectors trained as instructors by the Road Transport Industry Training Board. The mobile classrooms will be Leyland Titan PD2 double-deckers with

MCW bodies which are being given a new lease of life. They will be stationed at depots or bus stations, one vehicle going to each of Ribble's four operating areas.

Classrooms are in the upper saloon, from which the front four pairs of seats have been removed and replaced by a storage cupboard for training packs and equipment. and two tables, one for the instructor and one for holding a 35mm slide projector. Fitted over the front windows is a reversible projection screen and blackboard, flanked by black-out curtains which can slide nearly half-way down the length of the bus.

Each of the remaining 12 pairs of seats has been fitted with a shaped Formica ledge to form a desk-top for one person. Classes will consist of 12 trainees at a time. The vehicles will remain in service for general training purposes when decimalization training is completed.

London Transport is also employing mobile classrooms for training its 15,000 busmen, and has converted 10 RT double-deckers which will leave Chiswick bus training school shortly for a four-month tour of 68 garages. Again it is the upper deck which has been turned into a classroom, in a similar manner to the Ribble buses. Other alterations include fitting of heaters and fluorescent lights.