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GRIMSBY ADOPTS NEW BUS-BODY DESIGN.
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A Central-entrance Double-saloon Body Planned and Patented by a Municipal Official.
A S many of our readers will know, .a.Grimsby Corporation has for some time favoured the central entrance for single-deck passenger vehicles, but now it has turned the idea to account in connection with double-deckers. Mr. J. C. Whiteley, general manager and engineer to the tramways department of Grimsby Corporation, has just designed and patented a double-saloon body, an important function of which is to permit rapid loading and unloading during busy hours.
The well-known concern of bodybuilders, Chas. U. Roe (1923), Ltd., of Crossgates Carriage Works, Leeds, is responsible for the construction work, and the 48-seater low-load-line body has been mounted upon an A.E.C. Regent chassis. The entrance is 4 ft. 2 ins wide, whilst the stairway to the upper saloon is 4 ft. wide, and is forked at the top to give a dual entrance to that compartment.
The seats are of the semi-bucket type. On the upper deck there are, proceeding from front to rear, two rows of transverse double seats, behind which, on the off side, is a longitudinal seat for one passenger. Next is the staircase, opposite which are four single forwardfacing chairs, followed by two double seats. On the other side of the gangway, behind the landing, are a single longitudinal and a transverse double seat. Across the back of the body is a full-width seat for five passengers.
In the lower saloon a full-width seat backs on to the forward bulkhead, and facing it is a pair of double seats. Behind these, on the near side and just in front of the entrance, is a single longitudinal chair, opposite which is the staircase. On the other side of the doorway is a triple lengthwise seat, faced by a double one. At the back of the lower deck are two rows of double seats.