More single-deck Fleetlines for Halifax

23rd September 1966, Page 76

23rd September 1966

Page 76

Page 76, 23rd September 1966 — More single-deck Fleetlines for Halifax

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REPEAT orders for Daimler Fleetline chassis

placed by Halifax Corporation Transport include another two 33 ft. chassis to be fitted with single-deck bus bodies, for delivery in 1968. Two double-deck chassis have been ordered for delivery in 1967 and another two in 1968, all to be fitted with Northern Counties bodies.

Computer to Solve Traffic Problems: The Ministry of Transport has ordered a large-system 4-70 English Electric Leo-Marconi computer to help them solve traffic problems. It will be installed at the Ministry's road research laboratory at Crowthorne, Barks, in 1968. The computer will help to analyse the causes of road accidents and work out where to erect street lights for maximum efficiency.

First Buses for Villages: The Malvern to Upton-onSevern stage bus service has been extended experimentally to provide the villages of Naunton and Ripple with two journeys in and out of Upton on Wednesdays. This is the first bus service ever to have operated to these villages.

Warning—Low Bridge: Leicester City Council is to fit warning devices operated by photo-electric cells to the low railway bridges crossing Gipsy Lane and Lancaster Road. If a vehicle approaching the bridge is too tall to pass underneath, a sign on the bridge will light up, a warning beacon will flash and a siren will sound.

Bradford Bus Depot Plan: Bradford Transport Committee is considering how to put to the best use the former Bridge Street goods depot which the corporation is buying from British Railways. One idea is a 10-acre central area bus depot with full garaging facilities and possibly a rooftop helicopter station.