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1.P.T.A. President
i speech at Edinburgh last week, • Reginald Wilson, deputy chairman nanaging director of the Transport Ing Company said: "I feel like a Ler ".
occasion was the annual dinner of Iunicipal Passenger Transport Assnn, whose retiring president, Mr. I. Little. is leaving municipal transto succeed Mr. James Amos as nan of Scottish Omnibuses.
Reginald went on to say that he he movement of men between the :ipal and company world was a good and, whilst this was not the first 3le, there might well be more of it future. He hoped that municipal iort would last a long time to come. hough some of the smaller underts were, he felt, too small to te economically, large ones were to develop a dinosaurian complex, d, and there were opportunities for lination. Regional planning might lied for, but to include more than :oft alone. Co-ordination with .ys oufside London was not prache added.
: new president is Aid. H. C. tt (chairman, Chesterfield) and Mr.
Humpidge (general manager, !Id) was installed as vice-president. 3rd annual conference will be held rear at Blackpool in the week cornng September 14.
XT WEEK: SPECIAL P.S.V. ISSUE
tSSENGER transport will form the main subject of a special, irged issue of "The Commercial tor" to be published next week. .uyers' guide to coach bodywork, .view of passenger-vehicle chassis the annual analysis of municipal sport will be accompanied by a niption and road impressions of tntirely new p.s.v. chassis. Come with news and regular features, issue will be on sale at the usual e of Is 3d. SIX buses of striking design arc currently being delivered to Vauxhall Motors Ltd. by Strachans (Coachbuilders) Ltd. for shipment to Curacao, South America, Mounted on left-hand-drive Bedford VAL chassis, they employ the Everest 63 body frame designed to be equally suitable as the basis of a bus or a coach body. The new South American vehicles represent the bus version and seat 53 passengers on rather spartan seats moulded in glass-fibre to meet the requirements of the operator. (Tubular-framed seats upholstered with foam rubber cushions are normal on the service bus.)
Main body framing is of Zintec steel frame with 20-gauge Zintcc steel panelling, apart from the front and rear panels, which are of 18-gauge alloy. A very wide
gangway is employed to accommodate a large number of standing passengers, access to the body being via a coach-type door and two shallow steps. All main side windows are fitted with top sliding sections, recessed lights arc fitted in the ceiling and a full-length handrail is provided for standing passengers.
The plain interior trim is typical of vehicles built for this type of overseas work; a much more luxurious finish is available when required. Externally, however, the new vehicles are enhanced by polished alloy mouldings and the chromium-plated bumpers, radiator grille and wheel embellishers. The doublecant-rail construction gives an unusual, yet attractive, appearance to the body.
F.K.M.