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PASSENGER TRANSPORT
100 MORE BUSES FOR MANCHESTER.
THAT tenders for a further 100 buses I. be accepted has been recommended by Manchester Transport Committee. Subject to the city council's approval, Crossley Motors, Ltd., will supply 50 chassis, and Leyland Motors, Ltd., a similar number.
In addition, an order for 75 all-steel double-deck bus bodies is to be placed with Crossley Motors, Ltd., and the English Electric Co., Ltd., has been recommended for the supply of 25 bodies.
When completed, these tenders, which follow quickly in the wake of orders placed for 250 buses three months ago, will enable every tram in the city to be replaced. The total cost of buses for the conversion scheme is, to date, computed to be £828,025.
A BLACKBURN PROPOSAL TO ACCRINGTON AND DARWEN.
ALETTER has been received by Accrington Corporation Transport Committee from the town clerk of Blackburn suggesting that the transport committees of Accrington, Blackburn and Damen should meet in Blackburn shortly, to discuss a report on suggested joint running-, framed by the experts, Messrs. Collins and rearniey.
Accri n gton's committee decided to be represented on the understanding that this course will in no way commit the council to any suggested scheme.
WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION AND T.U.C. PROPOSALS.
"T EAT gastric complaints, to which i bus drivers are particularly prone through irregular hours and meal times, should be specially considered with a view to inclusion in the Schedule of Industrial Diseases for which workmen's compensation should be paid, was urged by the Trade Union Congress when it appeared before the Royal Commission on workmen's compensation, Sir Walter Citrine, general secretary, headed the witnesses, Dr. Morgan, medical adviser to the T.U.C., complained that men so subjected, and driving vehicles which vibrated, complained of gastric and intestinal disturbances, and a bus workers' sub-committee of the Industrial Health Board had found, statistically, that the incidence of gastric disturbances was about 15 to 17 per cent, higher amongst bus drivers than amongst other comparative workers. Varicose veins, amongst bus and tram conductors and tram drivers and other workers subjected to continual standing, and diseases resulting from the inhalation of fumes in men working on internal-combustion engines, were other disabilities about which the T.U.C. specially pressed for inquiry..
DUNDEE REVENUE EXCEEDS ESTIMATE.
AT a meeting of Dundee Corporation Finance Committee last week, Treasurer CnIdwell stated that the revenue in the transport department had considerabl. exceeded the estimates, buses being up by over £6,000 and the trams by .£2,500
SCOTTISH BUS CONCERN CHANGES HANDS.
THE business of Messrs. A. and J. Iklacphcrson, bus operators, of Fort William. has been purchased by David MacBrayne, Ltd. Permission to take over the company was sought at a meeting last week of the Traffic Commissioners.
Mr. Henry Riches, chairman, heard a lengthy discussion, and the various licences, at present held by the local company, including those for excursions and tours, were transferred to the new operator.
TRAMS SPOIL ANOTHER BALANCE SHEET
APROFIT of £75,717 on the buses and £3,162 on the trolleybuses is reported by Birmingham Transport Committee, These figures, however, are somewhat offset by a loss of £66,117 on the tram undertaking.
TROLLEYBUSES IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA.
IN a recent issue of Verkehrstechniit I a lengthy description is given of the trolleybuses which were put into operation in Prague, just over a year ago. The vehicles, which are the first of their kind in Czechoslovakia, are of the single-deck six-wheel type.
Trial vehicles were ordered from three Czechoslovakian concerns—the C. Kolben Danek Co., the Skoda. Works Co., and the Ringhoffer Tatra Co. As a result of the successful running of the three test vehicles, further routes are to be established in the city, for which, it is reported, orders for a further 21 buses have been placed.
JOINT BUS STATIONS IN SOUTH SHIELDS.
PRELIMINARY details have been settled between South Shields Town Council and the Northern General Transport Co., Ltd., regarding a proposed bus station in Mile End Road, South Shields, to be built by the
corporation. The station will cost £6,063, including £3,453 for land. The cost attributable to the "Northern " is £2,359. The company has agreed to enter into a 20 years' lease of its section of the station at a rental equal to the interest and sinking fund charges payable by the council on the cost of the company's part of the scheme, SUNDERLAND SHOWS A NEW BALANCE OF £6,313.
THE bus undertaking of Sunderland HE has earned a net balance of £6,313 during the year
ended March 31. The number of passengers carried was 11,976,388, compared with 10,309,288 the year before. Mr, C. A. Hopkins, the transport manager, in his report, states that five of the routes showed increases in passengers, mileage and receipts, whilst the sixth recorded a decrease in passengers and receipts and an increase in mileage. Operating costs fell from 9.012d. per mile to 8.978d.