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MOTORWAY LIMIT —MIDLAND RED UNAFFECTED?

3rd December 1965
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-rim experimental 70 m.p.h. speed limit 1 is unlikely to affect the schedules of the motorway express services operated

by the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co. Ltd., one of the pioneers of this type of service. For example, the Birmingham to London service is scheduled to take 2 hrs. 55 min., requiring an average speed of just under 40 m.p.h. Even allowing for bad traffic congestion at the London end of the service, Mr. Donald M. Sinclair, general manager, told "The Commercial Motor" that he believes coaches on the service should have no difficulty in regaining time within the speed limit. Midland Red coaches are, of course, capable of speeds above 70 m.p.h.

Meanwhile, the purchase by the company of no fewer than 149 further Daimler Fleetline double-deckers does not necessarily mean that no more doubledeckers will be designed or built by the company itself. Indeed, the company is actively engaged in the design of numerous products with a view to producing a rear-engined, front entrance doubledecker incorporating many of the features which have been so successful on the D9 rear entrance double-decker. Particular attention will be paid to accessibility of the units for maintenance, and the vehicle would probably be of integral construction, which experience has shown to be satisfactory.

The possibility of employing rearengined single-deckers (and eventually an all-rear-engined bus fleet) will be reviewed from time to time in the light of experience with the double-deckers of this layout.

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Locations: Birmingham, London

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