Liverpool Rebuilds Airport Coaches
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A SPECIAL 11-deck coach body has PA been built on four Leyland Royal Tiger chassis by Liverpool Transport Department, for use in conveying passengers to and from Speke Airport. .
The four Leylands had• existing singledeck double-entrance 40-seat bodies before the conversions were carried out. The new bodies provide 41 seats, with luggage space under the raised rear section of 21 scats.
The roof at the front has been left to normal single-deck height, says the undertaking, "to avoid a van-like appearance." A raked rear window is incorporated. The coaches are fitted with oil-burning heating units and fluorescent lighting.
An article about Liverpool Corporation's buses appears on page 898 of this issue.
ONE LESS—SO B.T.C. AGREE
AN agreement reached between Horace Kendrick, Ltd., of Green Lane, Walsall, Staffordshire, and the British Transport Commission, resulted in Keadrick's appeal to the Transport Tribunal being allowed in London on Tuesday,
The appeal was against a decision of the West Midland Licensing Authority. Kendrick's asked the Tribunal to allow them to take seven vehicles off contract A licence and put six of them on B licence.
After private discussion with the B.T.C., Mr. J. R. C. Samuel-Gibbon (for the appellants) agreed to ask the Tribunal for only five of the seven vehicles on B licence, The Tribunal allowed the appeal on these terms.
HEAVY PROFIT CUT DURING the year ended March 31 last, the net profit on South Shields Corporation transport undertaking, which includes motorbuses and trolieybuses, was only £489, compared with £13,793 the year before.