Peruvian Company 'Build First Bus
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THE first bus to be assembled by the newly formed company of Superior del Peru, S.A., was recently completed. It was a General Motors oil-engined chassis fitted with a 41-seat body.
Superior del Peru, who were formed to assemble locally all types of buses exported by the Superior Coach Corporation, Kosciusko, Mississippi, are owned by the Pacheco Benavides concern, who have a controlling interest in seven of Lima's bus systems. Pacheco Benavides built the first all-steel bus bodies in Peru, but high production costs suspended this venture.
PAY STRIKE THREAT IN EIRE THE Workers' Union of Ireland, who represent 900 of the bus workers employed by Coras Iompair Eireann, are to serve a seven-day strike notice to enforce their claim for higher pay *and allowances.
They are also to ask the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union and the National Association of Transport Employees to reconsider their decisions to refer their claims to the Labour Court.
As reported last week, the three unions have rejected an offer of higher, pay made by C.I.E.
LONDONERS MAKE LONGER JOURNEYS
LONDONERS today are making longer journeys on buses and the Underground, a special London Transport survey has shown. The average traveller on the London Underground now makes a journey 3.42 miles longer —which is over a fifth more than in 1939. Passengers on central buses and trolleybuses make journeys averaging
D4 1.33 miles or 15 per cent. longer than pre-war. Bus journeys in the country area are more than 18.1 per cent. longer than they were in 1939.
Among the reasons for the trend arc the extensions made to the Underground system, the wider .dispersal of population and the growth and change of the' country areas on the fringe of the Metropolitan area.
The majority of bus travellers is still those making relatively short journeys. In 1954. the proportion of passengers on central buses and trolleybuses making journeys of not more than a mile was 54 per cent.—more than the number of passengers for all other distances put together.