"'Scrap Trams," Says Dundee's Manager
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IN a report to the transport committee on Monday, -*Mr. W. L. Russell, general manager of Dundee Transport Department, recommended the earl withdrawal of the city's remaining trams. To enable conversion to be carried out within three months, he suggested that they be replaced by 30 ex-London Transport buses.
The recommendations will be considered at a special meeting on June 27.
Reporting on the DownfieldBlackness route, on which buses replaced trams last November, Mr. Russell said that public reaction had been most favourable. in the period under review, buses had carried an average of 264,440 passengers a week, compared with 254,317 carried weekly by trams in the previous six months.
Profit on the buses in the six months since November was £20,068, compared with a surplus of £7,168 on the trams for the period from June to November.
DEATH OF MR. H. J. RAYMAN WE regret to announce the death, last yr" Sunday, of Mr. H. J. Rayman, secretary to the National Benzole Co.. Ltd. Mr. Rayman, who was 61, had been secretary since 1926.