Against the tide?
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ALTHOUGH a widespread adoption one-man single-deck buses is beii encouraged by the Ministry of Transpo Edinburgh Corporation Transport actually actively engaged in switching or entirely to a double-deck stage bus fib The city's oldest bus route, No. 1, talc over from a private operator in 1919, h always had to be operated by singi deckers because of several low bridges.
Now the roadway under these bridg has been lowered by about 4ft. to allc the passage of double-deckers, and August 7 the Leyland PSUC1.3 sing] deckers then operating the service we replaced by double-deckers. Many of the buses, which have operated the service fi the past six years and formed part probably the largest single-deck municip bus fleet in the country (100 single-dm service buses) will probably be sold to tl Ulster Transport Authority.
A few single-deck routes still remai but in time these_ too will be double-deck, operated. However, it must be remembere that Edinburgh Corporation also operati a fleet of touring coaches on sightseeir tours of the city; these no doubt will t retained.
Edinburgh's future standard doubt decker is to be of the rear-engined, fron entrance type, and these could, of cours be employed on the one-man principle required.
Three Fleetlines become 1:
MENDERS accepted by Rotherham Col poration transport committee for nin Daimler CVG 6.30 and three Fleetlin chassis (COMMERCIAL MOTOR, July 15. have been changed to one for 12 Fleetline: The Fleetlines will be the first real engined double-deckers to be operated ty Rotherham Corporation.