BUS EXTENSIONS IN SOUTH WALES:
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The Latest Developments in the Services of a Well-known Swansea Company Who Run a Large Fleet of Buses.
rpm) South Wales Transport Co., ..L Ltd., of Swansea, who are one of the largest bus-operating companies in the country, are about to make a number of important extensions to their services, which will necessitate additions being made to the fleet of vehicles at present in use. The history of the cornpany's growth and their activities have been dealt with in our columns from time to time:
In brief, the company employ 100 A.E.C. double . and single-deck buses, which are run on routes extending east of Swansea to Neath, Port Talbot and Margani; on the north side over routes traversing all the mining and tin-plate Centres; and in the west to the Gower Peninsula, Llanelly and Carmarthen.
The Company's Brenswick Garage, In Swansea, has accommodation for 120 buses and is provided with messrooms, engineering and fitting shops and offices. It is at this centre, too, that all their bus bodies are constructed. Other garages and workshops of lesser importance are also owned in Neath and Llanelly. At the latter place a new large garage is tu be erected, the borough council having recently approved the plans. This garage will house the buses engaged on services in West Wales, and will be the intermediate centre for important new longdistance services which are shortly to be initiated from Swansea, via Llanelly
and Carmarthen; to Whitland and Neyland, in , Pembrokeshire, and to Cardigan and the West Wales holiday resorts. In preparation for these services, which are to be daily ones, the company recently substituted doubledeck buses for single-deckers on the Swansea-Llanelly route.
A few days ago a new 5,000-gallon petrol tank was installed by the AngloAmerican Oil Co., Ltd., at Llanelly, on the site where the new garage will stand, the intention' being that buses employed on the new services shall be supplied with fuel at the Llanelly 'depot.
It was stated, at the formal inStallation of the new tank, that it is the second largest equipment of its kind laid down by the Anglo-American Oil Co. Ltd., in Wales, the biggest—one of 10,000 gallons capacity—having been installed at the Brunswick Garage of the same company.
On the occasion of these proceedings, Mr. Fred. Lewis, manager (representing Mr. David :fames, J.P., managing director), and Mr. It. Vernon (Llanelly branch manager) were present for the South Wales Transport Co., Ltd.; Mr. A. E. Bailey, assistant manager of the Cardiff area, and Mr. T. A. Jones, Llanelly divisional manager, representing the Anglo-American Oil Co., Ltd.; an Mr. Samuel Phillips, Llanelly, attending for the Great Western Railway Co„ Ltd.