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Rear-engined Routemasters For Provincial Operators?
A LTHOUGH London Transport has only built one example of its new rearengined Routemaster double-decker (described in COMMERCIAL MOTOR last week), provincial operators may be......
Profit For Strike-hit Eyms, But
pAsT YORKSHIRE MOTOR SERVICES LTD. chairman Mr. John Spencer Wills last week reported pre-tax profit slightly higher than the previous year. Total number of passengers31+m.—was......
Bid For State Aid Birmingham's Transport Committee Wants...
corporation bus fares (except for the 4d. minimum) by between Id. and 3d. and it may also ask the Government to contribute towards the cost of its free travel scheme for 77,000......
Pay Rise Proviso
A FIRM offer of a pay rise for 100,000 provincial bus company workers will be made by February 1 if the unions co-operate in a joint working party to eliminate restrictive......
International Views
FEATURED at the 37th International Congress of Public Transport in Barcelona from May 7 to 13 will be papers on traffic congestion, automation, standardization of buses, and......
Traffic Probes
A TWO-YEAR, £160,000 study of land and transport use in the Greater Edinburgh area starts next month. And in East Kilbride another comprehensive traffic probe is to be made at a......
Aboard In Two Seconds L Eeds City Transport Is Receiving...
of 40 one-man buses with double-width entrance doors designed to facilitate automatic fare collection by ticket - issuing machines. Passengers will be able to buy multi-journey......
Death Coach Drivers Rested In Wrong Place
ALTHOUGH the driver and co-driver of a 4 coach that crashed down an M6 embankment in July, killing one woman and injuring several others, had had more than 10 hours' rest in 24......