Ribble's 4 per cent Drop
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QAYING that the financial results of Ribble Motor Services Ltd. in 1962 were little different from the disappointing record of the previous year, Mr. R. P. Beddow, the chairman, revealed at the annual meeting on Tuesday that there had been a drop of nearly 4 per cent, in the number of passengers carried on stage services. He said that completion of the Preston to Warrington and Cheshire sections of M6 would open up a further 70 motorway miles to the London and Midlands services.
During 1962, Ribble received 24 largecapacity double-deck buses, 11 singledeck coaches and 20 White Lady doubledeck coaches. Currently the company was taking delivery of a further 86 vehicles: 26 72-seat double-deckers, 40 single-deck 53-scat buses and 20 49-seat coaches. All the single-deckers were 36-ft long and, said Mr. Beddow, had fixed windows, the buses having roof vents and the coaches having individual "jet vents" as wet!. Vehicles on order for delivery by the spring of 1964 included 50 single-deck 53-seat buses, 10 express coaches, 35 luxury coaches and 10 double-deck 72-seat buses.