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:ON DHAND bus auctions gaining momentum, with ther due at Reading on 27 eading Transport has en British Car Auctions to ose of 12 16-20-year-old ; Reliance standee singleters with AH470 engines. lave current certificates of !ss.
ewing for the sale at the lett Road depot begins at and the sale starts two .s later. There will also be a ber of early 1970s coaches • ed 'or sale by independent ators.
us is the second auction BCA has organised on ling's behalf. Transport agEr R. C. Jenkins told CM the first auction was held use of his department's vaintment with tenders litted by regular buyers of us vehicles.
said: "'We felt we got the pr'ce we could from the ions, and our auditors ! happy with the prices ined and with the way in which the sale had been organised."
BCA also organised a sale of surplus double-deckers some time ago for Cardiff City Transport. That realised prices of '?,530 to 'i'.750 for vehicles which normally would have fetched much lower rates.
Reading fixes reserve prices for its auctioned buses, but has found, so far, that these have been exceeded.
Other operators fix at least notional reserve prices for surplus vehicles. Plymouth Passenger Transport Department has been unable to fetch satisfactory prices for 11 1972 Leyland Nationals which it offered for sale in May and proposes to readvertise them in the hope of catching more favourable market conditions.
A London Transport spokesman told CM that it is "not committed to any particular selling method."
He said: "It used to be that customers came to us because the London bus image was a selling point. Now things have changed."