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Irk bus lelivery roblems

7th September 1979
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LIVERY delays are slowing effield's articulated bus kis which could lead to an tomated bus system being roduced to the city.

ks the first of the GermanIt MAN Bendibuses entered vice on Monday there was no n of the Leyland DABs which m the other part of the trial t.

)ne complete Leyland was 3wn at the UITP congress in Isinki, in June but the South rks Passenger Transport ecutive has still to see a mplete vehicle. Four others still at the chassis stage. Mese vehicles are at the kB plant in Denmark and ey are unlikely to be bodied Britain this year.

klready a half service is erating and by December it is hoped that full scale trials mid be operating but these e now likely to be held up til the Spring.

If the Leylands have not ached SYPTE by mid-1980 e executive will be forced to *elsewhere — and no other itish manufacturer produces ticulated buses.

Most ambitious of the .emative schemes is a bussed, automated, rapid transervice for Sheffield.

Under plans, which are still an early stage, hybrid electc or electro-diesel buses )uld run on reserved tracks eered by cables under the ad surface.

The vehicles could be driven nventionally on other roads id they would be cheaper id more flexible than modern imways.

South Yorks PTE hopes to monstrate two German Tbrid buses in Yorkshire metime next year.

• MAN has announced that ; order for 400 double deck ises for Baghdad in Iraq will met by transverse-engined ises built to British regulapris and equipped with a 3ith transmissions.

It is also expected that 401 of ese vehicles will be built ith the last one coming to itain as an in-service deonstration vehicle.