BIG SUM FOR NEW GLASGOW BUSES
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THE transport committee of Glasgow Corporation is to spend £727,150 on its system in this financial year. Part will be spent on new buses, a central garage, and equipment for trolleybuses. A total revenue of £5,046,000 is expected for the year and total expenditure will be £5,153,000, leaving a deficit of £107,000.
On the bus section, £380,500 will be spent, the bulk of the amount, £228,000, being for new vehicles. The remainder, £153,500, will go on plant, land, and buildings. Tne proposed central garage will cost £11,650.
IN (AND OUT OF) THE MONEY rr HE accounts of Manchester Trans' port Committee for the past year show a deficit of £97,664 on the tramways, a surplus of £89,630 on the motorbuses, a profit of £38,909 on the trolleybuses, and a deficit of £13,421 on the parcels department.
Northampton _Transport Committee reports a profit of £14.694 for the year.
Birmingham Corporation budgets for a capital expenditure on the transport department. ft-it tt-e three years ending 1949, of £2,100,000.
Stockton-on-Tees Corporation's transport undertaking last year earned a total income of £238,909. Working expenses amounted to £177,351, leaving a gross profit of £61,558. After deducting various charges, a net profit of £18,262 remained. The debt on the undertaking has now been wiped out.
The corporation is to place contracts for 16 double-deck buses, and a further nine will be ordered within a few months. Thereafter, bus replacements will be at the rate of nine annually.