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Chesterfield to Have £710,000 Bus Depot

25th July 1958, Page 50
25th July 1958
Page 50
Page 50, 25th July 1958 — Chesterfield to Have £710,000 Bus Depot
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

ANEW bus depot., costing £710,274, is to be built by Chesterfield Corporation for their vehicles. The site, in Sheffield Road, Chesterfield, is across the road from the existing depot which is now inadequate for the needs of the fleet.

• The new transport headquarters is to be built in steel and will include a 250vehicle garage, with floor space of about 133,000 sq. ft., Workshops, employees' dining hall, administration offices and some external works. Because of the restrictions on .capital expenditure, the transport committee hacre been unable to set a date for commencing the project. They estimate, however, that building will take two years. Meanwhile, £1,800 is to be spent on repairing the floor of the existing depot.

Commenting on the proposals, Mr. E. Deakin, general manager, pointed out that vehicles were now using a building which was commissioned in 1927. Since then the fleet had increased by about 100 per cent. to 130 buses, some of which had to be parked in the open when not in use,

THREE WILL STUDY UNDER AWARDS BY I.o.T.

THE second award of the C.M.U.A.

Road Transport Research Fellowship has been made by the Institute of Transport to Mr. A. Burrows, general manager and engineer of Lancaster City Transport. He will use the fellowship to undertake a four months' study of industrial relations in the transport industry in Great Britain and Europe.

The Institute have aWarded a Henry Spurrier Memorial Scholarship to Mr. A. S. Henderson, to enable him to study traffic engineering at Stuttgart Technische Hochschule next year.

The Sir William Chamberlain Memorial Scholarship has been awarded to Mr. G. I. McKay, a technical assistant with Manchester Corporation Transport. He will study maintenance methods and systems operated by a number of road transport passenger undertakings in East Lancashire.

1,000 MILES OF NEW MOTORWAYS MORE than 1,000 miles of motorways, 1Y1 to cost about £300m., are planned by Western Germany. Some 190 'miles are due to be completed by next March. Another 150 miles are being built. By 1961, 410 miles of new motorway will have been constructed.

Apart from this programme, 1,100 miles of road are to be repaired at a cost of £109m.

BUSES OFF TO CEYLON

SPECIALLY chartered by Ceylon, the

s.s. Vercharmain is now on the way to Colombo carrying 66 of the £900,000 fleet of British single-deck buses which have been ordered by the Ceylon Transport Board. On board are 30 fullyassembled Albion Aberdonian underfloor-engined buses, together with 36 Leyland Comet passenger chassis packed in crates.


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