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Manchester Plans New Headquarters
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TENDERS have been invited by Man" chester Transport Committee for the .building of a new five-storey headquarters beside the undertaking's bus .depot in Hyde Road, Ardwick. It is expected that most of the cost of the new building would be covered by the sale of the existing headquarters in
which, is at the centre of .Manchester and is one of the most valuable sites in the city, Work on the new building is expected to, begin early .next year.
-PUNCHED-ROLL TICKET MACHINE A. TICKET-ISSUING machine that 1-"t records each issue on a punched roll sealed irt the machine iS on test by Bury Transport Department. It has been developed by Creed and Co., Telegraph House, 7 Orchard Road, East Croydon, manufacturers of teleprinter and tape machines, for whom this is a new 'departure.
• Of similar principle • to the Ultimate 'machine, the experimental one at Bury uses pre-printed ticket blanks, printing the fare and other traffic information at the time of issue. It is expected, if marketed, to cost about £50.
MOSCOW BY WALLACE ARNOLD
TOURS to Moscow are planned for next year by Wallace Arnold Tours, Ltd. Mr. M. Barr, assistant managing director, and Mrs. M. Hook, tours director, have been to the Russian capital to make arrangements. The company expects to run 12 departures, each tour lasting 17 to 18 days, with the projected route being through East Germany and Poland, remaining for two days in Warsaw before continuing to Moscow, where four days will be spent.
The first and last tours will probably be run from Leeds to Moscow, and the 'remainder will be operated by flying the passengers to the departure point on the Continent.
TROUBLE IN CEYLON THE Ceylon Government has decided that the whole question of the organization and operation of the Ceylon Transport Board should be .scrutinized. Meantime, a board of inquiry has been set up to investigate the' Elm. loss the undertaking has incurred since it was nationalized in January, 1959.
Because, he says, he cannot agree with the Ellin. spent on spares, the •AuditorGeneral will not Sign the undertaking's 1959 accounts.
Of the 2,906 buses taken over from private operators, 591 have so far been scrapped. Nearly 100 civil servants seconded for service with the Board have signed a petition, asking to leave but giving no reasons.
SAFETY—FROM BUSMAN
BLACKPOOL Transport Department's general manager, Mr. J. C. Franklin, last week gave an illustrated talk on "Transport throughthe Ages" tO Blackpool Safe Driving Association.