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SLIGHT INCREASE THIS YEAR
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By F. K. Moses
increase of 23 buses in municipal service can be recorded Us year, bringing the total to 19,212*. Taking into at the fact that one or two fleets are temporarily " overt " pending the conversion of routes from trolleybus to bus operation, municipal fleets have held their own.
actual switch from tralleybuses has gained momentum g the year. and no fewer than 315 have been withdrawn service whilst no new additions were made. Leyland Daimler have benefited most from the consequential se in the total of motorbuses, Leyland actually increasing lead over Daimler by 327 to a new total of 6,737, whilst lers themselves have gone up by 102 to 4,210. A.E.C. n in third place with 3,625, a drop of only one bus over ear's figure. With the production of the Albion Lowadded to the little Nimbus, the fall in the number of us in service has also been arrested, and there are actually more than last year.
forecast that there would be more than 1,000 rear!cl buses in municipal service by September 1, 1963, has cen realized, the actual figure being 168 short, although /ill soon be remedied as there are 819 rear-cngined buses ;sent on order (compared with 799 at this time last year). engined vehicles now comprise 5 per cent of the total of ) double-deckers in service.
totals of buses on order are restricted, so far as possible, hides expected for delivery by September 1, next year. includes all 441 of the Atlanteans known to be on order tunicipaLservice at the present moment. whilst it is only
fair to remind readers that there is a balance of 110 Daimler ileetlines outstanding on the Birmingham order, which required delivery spread over three years. This would put the Fleetline into the lead of rear-engined vehicles on order, and it is interesting to reflect that the Atlantean is now available with a droppedcentre rear axle to allow for a flat gangway throughout !he lower saloon--until now a major advantage of the Fleetline. It will be very interesting to follow this development.
In the single-decker field, the following for 36-ft.-long buses remains limited, and only 44 were on order at September 1, about 50 per cent of all single-deckers on order. In the adjoining tables, single-deck buses on order are listed separately under front entrance or front entrance and central exit. It is astonishing to see that only 27 out of 130 buses ordered will have dual-exit layouts, despite the increased speed of operation which could accrue from such an arrangement.
Bodywork is known for 1,440 of the buses on order. Fifty per cent of the double-dcekers will have M.C.W. group bodywork (658), with the Park Royal group second, at 298 (180 Park Royal, 118 Roe). Aiexanders will build 128 bodies, East I ancashire Coachbuilders 123, M.H. Cars (Belfast) 63, Northern Counties 62, and Massey Bros. 17. The Park Royal group will build 36 single-deck bodies (33 Park Royal, 3 Roe), East Lanes 27, Willowbrook 12, Marshall 7, Strachans 5, and Massey Bros. 4---total 91.