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NEW VEHICLE deliveries are improving to the National Bus Company's two hardest hit subsidiaries, according to a report in the company's Bus newspaper for August. Both Alder Valley and United Counties have been affected by a combination of elderly fleets of buses and drastic staff shortages in areas of high employment demand.
Alder Valley's general manager, Mr Peter Scully, is quoted as saying that his company hopes to have sufficient vehicles to cover all its scheduled services within a few weeks. More than half of an order for 25 new Fords are already in service.
Mr Edward Dravers, general manager of United Counties, told a public meeting of angry bus users recently: "You think you are frustrated, but we have got tremendous difficulties in even getting a bus service to you at all." In his 30 years' experience he had never come across such a set of circumstances as those which prevailed at present.