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PASSENGER TRANSPORT

ROAD TRANSPORT'S PART IN EVACUATION

RUNICIPAL undertakings, combine Vibus companies and independent operators all took part in the provision of road transport for the emergency evacuation of school children, babies and others, from Leeds, Bradford, Sheffield and Hull. To a large extent, evacuees travelled part of the way by train and completed their journeys by bus or coach, but of the 90,000 or so evacuees from Leeds, some 10,000 went all the way by bus. Buses and coaches were also largely employed to take evacuee children from the schools, where they assembled, to the railway stations. Bradford, for instance, used some 100 buses for this purpose.

MORE TROLLE YBUSES FOR MANCHESTER.

SANCEION to borrow R:10,368, for the conversion of tram routes to trolleybus operation, and £167,516 for the purchase of the necessary vehicles, has been obtained by Manchester Corporation.

DEATH OF NEWCASTLE'S LATE TRAFFIC SUPERINTENDENT.

!TRAFFIC superintendent to New" castle-on-Tyne City Council for 32 years, until his retirement seven years ago, Mr. Thomas Chalder has died at Newcastle at the age of 74. He joined the corporation as assistant traffic superintendent and 18 months later was appointed to the position he occupied at the time of his retirement.

BRISTOL COACH SERVICES TO CARRY ON.

I T has been jointly announced by the Bristol Tramways and Carriage Co„ Ltd., and Associated Motorways that all the daily services from Bristol to London, the Midlands, South Coast, West of England and elsewhere will be operated until further notice. Certain journeys on the service between Bristol, Bridport, Seaton,. Sidmouth and Exmouth will be discontinued. Coach tours and excursions are cancelled.

CURTAILMENT OF BUS SERVICES IN EDINBURGH.

I T is announced by Mr, Robert M'Leod, transport manager for Edinburgh Corporation, that curtailment is being made in some bus services. Passengers who now make use of the bus services are requested to make alternative arrangements where possible, and to make full use of the trams, the services of which, meantime, are not curtailed.

Ample provision has been made, by Glasgow Corporation and private bus operators, in regard to transport facilities within the city and to surrounding districts. No curtailment of services, to and from the city, is, as yet, envisaged. The corporation transport department announces that there will be a 25 per cent, reduction in the number of bus services, but this " cut " will not cause any serious inconvenience to travellers.

Buses will be taken off only during the quiet periods in the forenoon and afternoon. During the rush hours normal services will operate on all routes. Night services are not affected.

HASTINGS BUYING A.E.C. TROLLE YBUSES.

WE are informed by the Associated Equipment Co., Ltd., Southall, Middlesex, that it has received an order from the Hastings Tramways Co. for 20 661T-type double-deck trolleybuses of A.E.C.-English Electric design,

By securing this contract the A.E.C. company gains an entree for its trolleybuses into another leading town. Within recent months A.E.C. trolleybuses, manufactured either conjointly with the English Electric Co., Ltd., or incorporating electrical equipment made by other concerns, have figured on contracts received from Brighton, Reading and Belfast, the last named being for a fleet of 114 vehicles.

MANCHESTER ENGAGES. WOMEN CONDUCTORS.

WOMEN are to be engaged by Manchester Corporation, in the capacity of conductors, to replace men called up for service.

NEWCASTLE'S CANCELLED SERVICES.

ALL duplicate transport -services in Newcastle-on-Tyne have been cancelled and services on the route between Eawdon, Gosforth and Newcastle Central station have been stopped.

SOUTH AFRICA ORDERS MORE TROLLEYBUSES.

AFURTHER repeat order for Suneam-B.T.H, trolleybus chassis has just been received by Sunbeam Commercial Vehicles, Ltd., one of the Rootes group of companies, from the City of Johannesburg.

This order is for 25 chassis, of the ME.2. four-wheel type, similar to those previously sup'plied to Johannesburg in 1936 and 1938 respectively. These vehicles have proved highly satisfactory in service, and this further repeat order is evidence of the Johannesburg transport authorities' opinion of the Sunbeam-B.T.H. chassis, The bodies for these new vehicles will be built by Metropolitan Cammell Weymann, Ltd.

MAINTENANCE OF BUS SERVICES IN SCOTLAND

THE chairman of the Scottish Motor Traction Co., Ltd., Sir William Thomson, in a statement -last week, said that, although the company and its associated companies in Scotland— Western Scottish Motor Traction Co., Ltd., Central Scottish Motor Traction Co., Ltd., Lanarkshire Motor Traction Co., Ltd., W. Alexander and Sons. Ltd., and other Companies, had taken an important part in the Government evacuation scheme in Scotland, regular bus services had not been interrupted in any way.

Sir William stated that he wanted to correct the possible impression that the public would, in any way, be deprived of bus transport facilities. The companies had been able to obtain their normal services throughout Scotland and would be able to do so, Whilst national emergency would, to some extent, eventually curtail the services, added Sir William, no changes whatsoever would be made in the published time-tables without due notification being first made through the Press. In this event, new time-tables would give full particulars of any change.

SPECIAL REPORT ON PROPOSED TRANSPORT MERGER.

THE chairman of Accrington Transport Committee, Alderman Lord, together with the vice-chairman and officials, is preparing a special report on the corporation's position, in relation to the recent advice of experts, for a merger of Accrington, Blackburn and Damen transport undertakings.

WOMEN TO CONDUCT BIRMINGHAM BUSES.

ALREADY Birmingham Corporation Transport Committee has lost 20 per cent, of its total of transport employees and in consequence women bus conductors and cleaners, and male auxiliary drivers are to be employed. The rate of pay for women conductors and cleaners will be the same as the commencing rate for men,— £3 OS. 6d. a week for conductors, and £2 16s, for vehicle cleaners. •The age limits are, for conductresses, 21 to 95, and for auxiliary drivers, over 41.

Altogether, 945 drivers and conductors have been called up to territorial units and the reserves. Li providing for this eventuality the corporation has, for some time, had a scheme in operation for the training of conductors as drivers, and those who are fully trained will be transferred immediately the first batch of women conductors begins work.


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