" Bevin Buses" for Highways Service
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WE learn that a narrower model of VI! the articulated-type buses now being delivered to the Transportation Department of the Ministry of Supply for internal use at big factories may be introduced for highways operation. The idea is to use the " Bevin buses," as they are colloquially termed, to carry war workers on pub4 routes and thus release for the general travelling public many vehicles now employed on this special work.
A hundred of' the trailer buses now being delivered will soon be carrying workers on internal routes at big factories, where, in SOttie cases, employees have to travel several miles after they have passed through the factory gates.More of the vehicles may later be put into operation at other centres, such as aerodromes.
• The vehicles now being delivered have a total length of 33 ft. The overall width, a good deal more than that at present permitted for p.s.v. vehicles, is 8 ft. 5 ins. The seats, placed transversely, accommodate 50 passengers, and there is room for 15 people to stand.
The 27 h.p. tractor units are Bedfords, the trailer chassis are by R. A: Dyson and Co., Ltd., and the British Trailer Co., and the bodies are by Charles H. Roe, Ltd.