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• A tender from Daimler Transport Vehicles Ltd. for six 36ft Fleetline single-deck bus chassis has been accepted by South Shields transport committee. The chassis will cost a total of £22,284 and are designed to carry o-m-o front entrance and central exit bodies with 47 seats and provision for 18 standing passengers.
Confirming this order, Mr. J. M. Smith, general manager of South Shields Corporation Transport, told CM last Friday that a contract for the bodies was expected to be placed in the near future. The undertaking already operates 11 30ft Fleetline double-deckers and the new contract will facilitate standardization between doubleand single-deck vehicles.
Other recent orders for Fleetlines include Bury (7), Alexander (Midland) Ltd. (15), and West Riding (12), all 30ft models, and East Yorkshire (10), West Bromwich (7) and Wolverhampton (25), all 33ft models. • Teesside County Borough Council is to place an order with BLMC for 15 Leyland Atlantean chassis at a cost of £3,499 each and is to invite tenders for o-m-o double-deck bodies to be mounted on these chassis.
The order, first to be placed by the new Teesside Municipal Transport undertaking since its formation last April, is doubly significant. First, it suggests that the undertaking is to standardize on Leyland buses for future orders. Second, it indicates a change of policy, as Mr. W. C. Wilson, general manager of the former Stockton municipal undertaking and general manager of the new Teesside undertaking, was last year talking in terms of the "extensive use in future of one-man single-deck buses" (CM December 22 1967), Both Stockton and the Teesside Railless Traction Board were already standardizing on Leylands, with recent deliveries of Atlanteans before the new authority came into being, although Middlesbrough, the remaining undertaking to be incorporated in Teesside Municipal Transport, was standardizing on Daimler Fleetline double-deckers.