Edinburgh Saved Big Sum Last Year
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THE reduction of operational mileage by 400,000 saved Edinburgh Transport Department £50,965 in the year ended October 31. The undertaking's annual report states that reduced traffic must now be accepted as the general pattern. Reduction or elimination of uneconomic services was an obvious method of economy, but it must be tempered by consideration for the communities served.
The actual reduction represented 393,740 miles at an average running cost of 31.065d. per mile. Increased efficiency of staff could also assist, and attention was being given to this aspect.
Reinstatement of roadways would continue. The programme which was now in its seventh stage had so far seen 39 miles of double tram track and 11 miles of single track lifted. Only 6+ miles of track remained.
CHANNEL TUNNEL: NO TECHNICAL DIFFICULTY LTHOUGH a year might elapse K1 before the assents of the governments concerned were forthcoming, no technical difficulty was anticipated in the construction of a Channel Tunnel, said Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, chairman of the International Study Group on the scheme, last week.
He Considered it unlikely that the project would have adverse effects on the Common Market. Indeed, the saving in dock charges would make our exports more competitive. The tunnel would put the British exporter on the same footing as his German competitor, who had no dock charges to meet when selling to France.
The report of the group is due to be published within the next two months, MORE BUSES FOR INDIA ORTY Comet bus chassis are to be supplied to the Indian State of Rajasthan by Ashok Leyland. Ltd. Bodies will be built in Bombay and Hyderabad. These vehicles are the first to be ordered by Rajasthan for new passenger-transport services.
A repeat order for 30 Comet passenger chassis has been received by Ashok Leyland from Ahmedabad Municipal Transport Service, bringing the total of Leyland buses in use by that undertaking to over 240.
A contract worth £40.000 has been placed by the Public Works Department, Kuala Lumpur, for the supply of 17 Leyland Comet tippers with 4 x 4 conversions by All Wheel Drive, Ltd., Camberley, Surrey. Edbro-B. and E. 5-cu.-yd. bodies are to he fitted.
A BUSY NEW YEAR
TN the next few weeks it is expected I that vehicle taxation licences to the value of more than £70m. will be issued. Altogether about 8im. licences expire on December 31, and thousands of temporary clerks have been engaged all over the country to cope with the renewals.