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admits. Substantial progress had, however, been made in a number of areas and there were now examples of new town developments which allowed reasonable facilities for public transport operators.
Another major feature of the year had been the largest increase in fares levels yet implemented by the company bus operators. And the warning is given that in the course of 1971 and 1972 the NBC, in order to keep solvent as a going concern, might be obliged to reduce further the volume of service provided.
Conversion of stage carriage services to one-man operation was extended to more than 33i per cent of the mileage run in 1970, from 25 per cent in 1969. A number of operating companies had introduced productivity schemes for platform staff providing improved service and efficiency of operation. With the advice of outside consultants, incentive bonus schemes based on scientific work study methods had been introduced in the majority of the bigger corn panies.
Finally, on the subject of rolling stock, although the delivery situation had improved over 1969 conditions, the 1970 programme of deliveries was still uncompleted by the end of the year. Dissatisfaction about rear-engined doubledeckers is expressed in the report. In one company alone, the high incidence of breakdowns had necessitated substantial modifications to a fleet of 300 new vehicles.