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Bradford May Scrap Trolleybuses
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A HINT that Btadford may scrap its
trolleybus fleet in the next 10 years was given to Wibsey Conservative Club last week by Councillor H. A. Sissling, deputy chairman of the city's transport committee.
There might be a review of major policy about Bradford's public transport fleet, composed at present of equal numbers of trolleybuses and motorbuses, said Councillor Sissling. "1 myself," he 'added, "feel there is no room for both services. They complicate servicing, stores and works policies."
Councillor Sissling said that on some routes motor and trolleybuses ran side by side, which was uneconomical. The cost of each type of vehicle was roughly the same, about £6,000, but the cost of installing overhead wiring for trolleybuses was £8,500 a mile. Turning corners and junctions for trolleybuses cost anything over £200. In addition, he said. motorbuses kept much better to time schedules in the crowded city centre.
Pointing out that if this policy were adopted it would take an estimated 10 years to carry out, he said it would mean disposing of 190 tolleybuses and dealing with the problem route by route.