Radio-telephones for Leeds Buses?
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MR. TOM LORD, general manager of Leeds Corporation transport department, has proposed a scheme whereby drivers of about 12 buses of the undertaking will have their vehicles equipped with radio-telephones, to report back on the traffic situation at various points, as it affects their own and other vehicles of the fleet. This new plan will be discussed by the Leeds transport committee early this year. There have already been experiments with a television camera, plugged into a telephone, used to transmit pictures to the control room, and Mr. Lord prophesies that the department will eventually use television camera tech niques to report on the traffic situation at strategic points. The control room at the Swinegate headquarters already receives television pictures of the transport situation in City Square, Briggate and the Corn Exchange, but Mr. Lord believes that a mobile television camera would also prove to be useful. On the proposed radio-telephone link, which may be operating in Leeds and district by next autumn, instructions will be sent to drivers on methods of dealing with the situation in front of them. Mr. Lord says his system is new in Britain, although it has been used in Continental countries,