Liverpool's £800,000 Bus Plans.
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ASCHEME to purchase 190 doubledeckers at an approximate cost of £760,000 is being considered by Liverpool Transport Committee, which has asked the city council for approval. It is also Proposed to buy six singledeckers which will bring the total cost to about £800,000.
The single-deckers are required for replacement purposes. Seventy-six of the double-deckers are needed in connection with the tram-conversion programme, 94 for replacements and the remainder for normal development. Bodies may be assembled On 60 doubledecker chassis at the Edge Lane works.
'OBITUARY
VUE regret to announce the deaths of VV MR. GEORGE MUNRO, C.B.E., and MR. W. B. STOKES.
Mr. Monro died on November 14 aged 75. After leaving University College School, he entered his father's business, eventually becoming head of George Monro, Ltd., the well-known" Covent Garden concern.
He took an active part in the formation and conduct of the Commercial Motor Users' Association (now Merged into the Traders' Road Transport Association), in which he served as president. The fine vehicles of his commercial motor fleet were always admired at the annual CM.U.A. parades.
Mr. Stokes. who was 57, was secretary of the Tyre Manufacturers' Conference . and a former personnel officer of the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd.
CUT HANDLING COSTS BY MECHANIZATION
OUT-OF-DATE methods of handling absorbed an enormous amount of productive labour, and in the drive for increased productivity an analysis of present handling methods offered the greatest scope for saving effort and cost of manufacture.
Mr. L. Rumley, of Conveyancer Fork Trucks, Ltd., made this observation at the Manchester preview of the company's film; "Fork Lightening." The film was shown in London. yesterday as part of the National Work Saving Week.
"Fork Lightening" demonstrates Conveyancer models of all types and includes effective shots showing the machines tackling awkward loads in the industrial establishments in which they are customarily employed. •
B.R.S. EARNS £61m. A -MONTH . IN the four weeks to October 7, the Irevenue of British Road Services amounted to £6,457,000, and in the first '.40. weeks of the year to £58,417,000. Corresponding figures for the British Transport Commission's provincial and Scottish road passenger transport interests were £3,674,000 and £34,074,000.
London Transport's revenue in the four weeks to October 7 totalled £4,745,000, bringing the aggregate for the first 40 weeks of the year to £45,730,000.