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DAIMLER'S INITIAL SUCCESS IN EDINBURGH
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L'AVOURABLE reaction to the con1 version of one Edinburgh tram route to motorbus operation is reported by the "Edinburgh Evening News." In a recent report, passengers are quoted as having found the new buses, Daimler Freeline single-deckers with maximumcapacity Duple bodywork,. "faster and more comfortable." A transport department official is reported to have stated that passengers in the peak hours waited no longer for the buses than they did when the trams were operated.
The same frequency of service was maintained—two minutes—but the old trams carried 56 passengers, whilst the new buses were originally intended to carry 63 passengers in peak hours. The convener of the transport committee is reported to have said that in the first week of bus operation, more passengers were carried than the trams had carried in the corresponding week last year.
The mileage run showed that the buses were working to the same capacity as the trams had done. Even at this early stage, he said, it appeared that the buses were going to be more economical. '
NOTTINGHAM'S NEW DEPOT IT is hoped that_ the new garage at IBilborough of Nottingham Transport Department will be occupied by the winter. The building, which will hold 50 buses, was on the point of cornpletion at one time when a subsidence of the ground because of coat-mining caused it damage.