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BIRMINGHAM'S PROFITABLE MUNICIAL TRANSPORT.

23rd June 1925, Page 22
23rd June 1925
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How the Corporation's Petrol and Trolley Vehicles Fared in the Past Year.

MIRE accounts dealing with the pas.' senger transport services ran by the Birmingham. Corporation, which have just been issued for the year ended March 31st last, reveal the handsome profit of £231,000, and ratepayers in the city will find much satisfaction in the fact that a sum of £4-0,000 has been allocated to the relief of rates. The corporation maintains a large fleet of passenger vehicles, composed of 685 tramcars, 92 motorbuses, and 13 trolley-buses. So far as the accounts for the motorbuses are concerned, we note that a' sum of £38,797 was carried to the profit and loss account, whilst a sum of 19,283 was carried to the same account from the working of the trolley vehicles. The motorbus accounts show that of a total expenditure of £130,777, a sum of £61,169 was absorbed by traffic expenses (wages amounted to £47,711), £33,141 by repairs and maintenance, £25,066 by cost of petrol (£798 of which was paid away by a bonus to employees effecting savings in consumption offuel), and 110,095 by general expenses.

The total expenses were equivalent to an average of 12.050d. per bus-mile, a figure which compares with 11.976d. a year earlier, when the total expenditure a.mounted to £108,740, and the balance transferred to profit and loss account L33,742.

The receipts on the motorbuses were £169,574, giving an average of 15.625d. per bus-mile, a figure which represents a fractional decrease on that for the preceding year, when they were equivalent

n to a average of 15.692d. per bus-mile.

So far as trolley-buses are concerned, the total expenses were £18,562, or 12.067d. per bus-mile. Traffic expenses at £9,440 absorbed the largest portion of this sum, other items being power expenses at £3,377 (a sum arrived at by the purchase from the Electric Supply Department of 553,779 Board of Trade units at 1.3692d. per unit, plus payments made under a bonus scheme for current saved), general expenses at 12,722, and the cost of general repairs and maintenance at £2,836. Receipts 'on these vehicles were £27,845, or 18.102d. per mile, the corresponding figures for the previous year being 125420 and 17.975d. respectively.

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