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Operating Aspects of Passenger Transport

23rd March 1940, Page 31
23rd March 1940
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WAR'S EFFECT ON BLACKPOOL'g REVENUE

UP to the end of February, Blackpool Corporation buses and trams carried nearly 65,000,000 passengers in 11 months, a decline of 2,600,000 on the corresponding period of 1939. The receipts were over £463,000, or nearly £31,000 less.

Bus passengers numbered 32,050,726, against 34,000,434 in 1999, and receipts were £208,719, compared with £221,206.

YORKSHIRE AUTHORITIES BUY SUNBEAMBTH TROLL13YBUSES

A SHORT time ago. Rotherham t "I Corporation placed an order with Sunbeam Commercial Vehicles, Ltd,, Wolverhampton, for a fleet of Sunbeam-BTH six-wheeled trolleybus chassis. Another Yorkshire transport authority, the Tees-side Railless Truetion Board, which was one of the earliest undertakings to operate trolleybuses in this country, has now placed an order with the Sunbeam concern. Both Rotherham Corporation and the Tees-side Board operate trolleybuses exclusively of the single-deck type.

PHASES OF TRANSPORT SELLING

THE publicity officer of London Transport, Mr. Christian Barman, recently read a paper entitled "Transport for Sale" before I the Tyne and District Section of the Institute of Transport. There had, he said, been a great change in the official attitude towards the passenger. First of all, there had been the discovery that every passenger was sometimes a stranger. Everyone, even Londoners, had been lost in London.

We never shout at the passenger now, be added. We speak to him more than we used to, but we speak quietly, and, if we possibly can, we try to make him laugh. But there is more in it than that. The old order assumed that the passenger was deeply interested in the working of the undertaking, but it is now realized that he does not know the first thing about it and, when it comes to the point, cares even less.

Mr, Barman mentioned that, of approximately 480,000 advertising sites on London Transport...vehicles, 120,000 were reserved for the sole use of the undertaking, BOLTON TRAINING CONDUCTRESSES

WOMEN conductors have been VV approved for appointment on Bolton Corporation buses. They are undergoing training and may soon be expected on actual duty. They are likely to be much needed, because military service has already heavily affected the staff of Bolton Transport Dept., especially with regard to conductors,

BUYERS OF A.E.C. FLEETS

(NE of the latest orders for trolley94../buses to be received by the Associated Equipment Co., Ltd., comes from the Hastings Tramways Co., which has ordered 28 A.E.C.-E.E.C. doubledeckers. It is only seven months since the same undertaking ordered. 20 similar vehicles. '

Another important contract received by the company is from Liverpool Corporation, which is buying 30 Regent double-deckers. The Liverpool municipal authorities have been increasing users of A.E.C. buses since 1935, and last year alone three orders were placed for single and double-deckers. NEWCASTLE'S RATE CONTRIBUTION UNDER FIRE LAST week, the question of the transport and electricity undertaking contributing about £20,000 per annum to the relief of rates at Newcastle-on-Tyne was discussed at a meeting of the city council:

Councillor Rowland pointed out that, this year, the undertaking had only been asked to contribute £5,000 on account of its financial position. It was anomalous to ask it to pay a fixed sum of £20,000 when the deficit next year might be greater than the £31,000 deficit this year. He suggested that the motion be deleted.

Alderman Nixon supported the motion and said that, this year, the transport and electricity committee had put £61,000 against capital expenditure. If this policy be continued there would never be any surplus. If the undertaking did not place so much against capital expenditure it could easily assist the rates.

Councillor Pearson said the money could be used to cheapen fares, instead of helping the rates.

Alderman Locke thought that the undertaking was in need of further exteniions and he believed in paying for things out of capital, instead of borrowing.

The council agreed that the principle of a contribution by the undertaking should he maintained, but agreed to the withdrawal of the proposed fixed amount.

BUS ENGINEER'S 'DEATH

THE death has occurred, in Glasgow, of Mr. Albert E. Scroggie, chief engineer at Falkirk to W. Alexander and Sons. Ltd., the well-known busoperating concern.


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