Big Standing Loads : Ministry Approval
2nd March 1951, Page 40
2nd March 1951
Page 40
Page 40, 2nd March 1951
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A PPROVAL has been received from
the Ministry of Transport for the plan to allow 40 people to stand and 26 to be seated in the new B.U.T.-Weymann trolleybus to be operated in Glasgow It will run for a year as an experiment.
Other municipalities will watch the experiment closely At least one has approached the Licensing Authority for permission to run a 26-seater motorbus with 26 standing passengers, it would be operated by one man during the slack periods and would carry a conductor during peak hours. An underfloorengined chassis would be used for the
purpose.