Central-entrance 60-seater Embodies New Ideas
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the presence of a number of orthern transport executives on sday, a new type of central-entrance ble-decker, the lightweight highge Mark II type A of the Northern nties Motor and Engineering Co., , was handed over to the Stalyge, Hyde, Mossley and Dukinfield :.rtaking. An Atkinson 60-seater, vehicle is designed to overcome sin difficulties previously experi with buses of this pattern.
Cr. R. F. Fone, managing director of company, said that similar vehicles been abandoned in some areas ,ably because of low seating capy, restriction of passengers circus on the lower deck, lack of ities for luggage, and awkwardness tovernent for conductors. He hoped these problems had been overcome le new design.
2d. a Mile up
Id. A. Allan claimed that the underig's high-capacity single-decker had a thorough success, and said that lowed a return 2d. per mile better ordinary single-deckers on the e route. By the use of electrically 'ated doors, people could be stopped boarding at unauthorized halts platform accidents avoided. He xl to effect savings that would iterbalance the extra cost of the le undertaking would be quite ng to assist other operators with rmation about the trials that were e carried out.
r. L. G. Stockwell, general manager he undertaking, thought that some cies did not offer the comfort and 'enience due to the modern passen
His authority had to compete on of its principal routes with train ces operating in about two-thirds he time and at rather lower fares. le new vehicle is 27 ft. long, t. 6 in. high and 8 ft. wide, with tnladen weight of 7 tons 17 cwt. ing is provided for 35 people in upper saloon and 25 in the lower. ing frames are of SiddaIl and Hilton afacture. The cushions are of lopillo, with trimming in Firth's uette and Vynide.
Metal Frame
le frame is of metal, the whole of lower saloon being of Northern cities' standard steel construction, the upper saloon is framed in treated aluminium alloy. In the r saloon the gangway and the landit the top of the stairs are covered Tenoid matting. The body is Bed in 18-gauge aluminium.
te manufacturers' automaticetion ventilation system is incorted in the upper saloon. In this m the engine withdraws from the
saloon all the air needed for rustion via numerous perforations le ceiling panels. Engine pulsa
tions and noises are damped by means of a special resonance box built under the front canopy of the lower salcon.
The central entrance has steps that are enclosed by a pair of electrically operated sliding doors. These doors are divided centrally and slide forward and rearward into shielded pockets inside the body. The meeting edges of the doors have full-length spongerqbber buffers, and the doors are glazed with toughened glass above and below the waistline.
Operation is by means of a C.A.V. standard 24-volt motor; C.A.V. contact switches and operating switches are provided. The doors slide on Overton door tracks. Like the ventilation system, the operating arm and mechanism have been developed by Northern Counties in conjunction with Mr. A. H. Gernaey, chief engineer of the Lancashire United Transport Co., Ltd. Doors are under the control of both the driver and conductor.
EWER COACHES COVER 4.4M.
MILES
LAST year the coaches of the four companies in the Ewer group covered 41m. miles and carried 2m passengers. The group paid £125,000 in wages.
These figures were given on Tuesday by Mr. U. G. Ewer, a director of George Ewer and Co., Ltd., at the company's annual dinner in London. He was deputizing for his father, Mr. J. H. Ewer, chairman and manging director, who is seriously ill in a London nursing home.