THE GROWTH OF A SCOTTISH BUS OPERATOR.
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The Fleet of the Scottish Motor Traction Co,, Ltd., Now Numbers Over 500 Vehicles. Details of the New Edinburgh Garage.
THAT well-known transport operator, the Scottish Motor Traction Co., Ltd., of Edinburgh, which not only maintains a vast network of motorbus routes in the south-eastern portion of Scotland, but also carries out pleasure tours on a very extensive scale from the Scottish capital, has recently still
further improved its big organization by opening an extensive new garage and depot, probably the largest in the kingdom.
The need for this augmentation has been apparent for some considerable time, in view of the rapid growth of the company's activities and of its fleet, which now numbers well over 500 vehicles, consequently when a start was made with the building work care was taken to ensure that the new garage would be of sufficient size to cope with all likely demands for a number of years. To this end the company has had ccinstructed a garage providing 90,000 sq. ft. of floor space, and having adjoining it a site nearly half as large as this area for developments which may become necessary in the course of the next few years.
The new establishment, which is close to the Waverley Station, is within a minute or two's run of the company's principal bus stands, and is equipped with all modern appliances for the rapid cleaning of motorbuses and for the carrying out of ordinary , running repairs. Petrol is attired in two 10,000gallon underground tanks, and oil is also stored in bulk.
For the future the garage in Fountainbridge will be reserved primarily for overhaul work and the more important repair jobs.
The company employs Mendslay, Albion and Leahian machines, the last named being a product of the company, the first examples of which were put into service in the days when the company was first formed, nearly a quarter of a century ago. Many of the machines are still giving excellent service, after having been engaged for many •years on strenuous service duties—a tribute to the constructional and engineering .abilities of the designers of the machines In question.
The company, which at the beginning of this summer entered the sphere of long-distance passenger transport by road, has done excellent business during the past few months with its EdinburghNewcastle service, which is worked via 7edburgh and Otterburn.