• WARRINGTON'S SUCCESSFUL MUNICIPAL BUSES.
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The Operations for the Past Year Show an Increased Profit.
WARRINGTON Corporation has developed its municipal bee undertaking or. remarkably successful lines, and the report which has just been issued for the year ended March 31st contains many striking details and informative statistics. The main details for the past year of working as oempered -with the previous twelve months are set out in The following table;
Although the fares have been reduced, the passenger receipts have increased by £448, and comparative figures for two reutee in each of the last two years are as follow :
On the Gorsey'Lane route during the past year the miles run numbered 43,115 and the total receipts have amounted to £3,527, equivalent to 19.633d, ry-r busmile. The comparable figures for the previous year were :—Ielilets run, 36,223; total receipts, £3,364; receipts per busmile, 22.292d.
On the Lovely Lane route the lasses covered 47,182 miles, the total receipts amounting' to £3,573, the receipts per bus-mile being 18.177d. The comparable figures for the previous year were :—Miles run, 39,199; total eeeeipts, £3,288; receipts per bus-mile, 20.129d.
The cost of petrol is shown by the report. to have been 4.024d. per bus-mile (as against 4.855d. in -1922-3), and although the distance run was several thousand miles more, tho cost under this head was £12 less: Owing to the increased mileage the expenditure is higher, but when worked out per busmile a reduction of 1.806d. per mile is shown.
The following statistics, which relate to some of the outstanding features of the Warrington municipal bus services during five separate years, are of in— terest
The undertaking is at present free from debt, and the profit of £1,140 has been carried forward to the appropriation account, where the credit baler-lea is now £1,760. There is £812 unexpended of the loan sanctioned under the Warrington Corporation Act, 1911.
Halley's Latest Passenger Model wc illu.strate on this page one of the latest types of passenger vehicle which has just been delivered by Hadley's In dustriaI Motors, Ltd., of Glasgow, to Mr. William Dunlop, of Greenock, who already owns a number of Halley paseenger-Carrying machines. The vehicle is capable of seating 30 passengers, and it will be noted from the pictures that in some respects it follows Continental practice in that the front portion of the body is normally open, the hood, which serves to cover it in wet weather, being housed at the front of the rear portion, which is permanent. By the use of side windows to the front portion of the body, and by clueing those at the rear, absolute protection can be given to the occupants in any weather. The vehicle can thus give the maximum comfort and convenience all the year round. The centre portion of the rear seat is so constructed that it can be tipped , outwards, and forms two steps when the 'emergency door at the rear is open.
The passenger entrance at the front, which gives access to the interior, is of a particularly safe tYpe, the door covering being extended in order completely to enclose the steps themselves. This form of construction avoids certain risks which exist when the steps actually extend beyond the body width.
in is recent demonstration, the vehicle carrying its full quota of passengers seccessfully climbed to the top of Glen Croe, .to reach which point a very stiff