Buses for Workers and Housewives
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THE m.0.1,v.T. is doing everything it cap to' assist in the improvement of bus services where such additions have shown themselves to be most essential. It is impossible to increase the number of new vehicles beyond the production figures already agreed upon; but in some. areas buses are actually laid up for want of personnel, and the limiting factor is often the crew, the position, regarding conductors •being worse than with drivers. Actual wastage amongst bus conductors is not much above that occurring in other branches of industry, and it is usually considerably greater, amongst the newcomers. If they get over the first two months or so, they settle down.
In addition to increased serviCes for essential workers, it is hoped, later, to deal with those for housewives, particularly in rural areas, where they have been hard hit, so far. as transport • is concerned. As regards the actual vehicles to be employed, no doubt there will be some borrowing from areas where any surplus has shown itself to exist.
Already a number of vehicles, such as trolleybuses, with the exc,eptional width of 8 ft„ has been put into operation in the outer area of London and elsewhere, these being models originally built for overseas, but we are assured that there is no general exception to the maximum of 7 ft. 6 ins., also that articulated vehicles used for passenger work will not be allowed to run at over 20 m.p.h.