Councillor Disputes Trolleybus Costs
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A RE trolleybuses cheaper to operate
than oil-engined buses ? Mr. G. H. Pulfrey, Hull Corporation's general -manager, produced figures to the transport committee showing that trolleybuses cost 71d. a mile more to run, but he could not convince Cl1r. D. Bancroft. The councillor pointed to the cost of electricity and said he did not understand the view that these vehicles were more expensive. He suggested that their use in Hull should be extended.
Aid. W. E. Body, however, took the general manager at his word, but asked for a report on the possibility of improving services in the town. Ald. J. Henson. chairman, also accepted the figures on trolleybuses, saying that running costs would be doubled if these buses were put on to thinly populated routes.
Mr. Pulfrey said he would have thought the figures were self-evident: to get the best out of the system, trolleybuses would have to be replaced. He agreed to prepare a report on Hull's transport.