209 More Leylands for C.I.E.
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AN order for 209 oil-engined bus chassis, valued at nearly £400,000, has been placed with Leyland Motors, Ltd., by Coras lompair Eireann. The new vehicles will be used by C.1.E. mainly to replace obsolete or outworn machines. All the vehicles will be assembled in Dublin, and the bodies are to be built at the C.I.E. works at Inchicore.
Fifty are 8-ft.-wide double-deck Titans, and the remaining 159 are vertical-engined single-deck Tigers Most of the Tigers are 7-ft. 6-in, wide models, which will replace old petrol-engined vehicles operating on provincial routes.
The order follows one for 180 bus chassis which has only recently been completed at Leyland. The C.I.E. at present operates a fleet of more than 1,000 buses over routes covering 4,232 miles. Ninety-eight per cent, of the buses in the fleet are of Leyland manufacture.
BUSES HALVE TRAVEL TIME
THE first of a fleet of 37 new Leyland Titan double-deck buses, which will replace the trams at Gateshead on Sunday, have just been put in service by the Gateshead and District Omnibus Co., Ltd. During weekdays they operate a six-minute service, completing the journey in half the time previously taken by the trams.
All the new buses are Hybridge 56seater models, 23 of which are 8 ft. wide.
420 CHILDREN: £4,000 A T a recent meeting of South-east Durham Educational Executive Committee, it was stated that last year the committee paid £4,000 to carry 420 children to and from school. Members described the figures as "alarming," especially as the South-east Committee was only, one of 13 in the county of Durham.