Operating Aspects of Passenger Transport
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BIRKENHEAD BEATS ALL RECORDS VIGURES contained in the annual report of the general manager of the transport department of Birkenhead Corporation show that, in the year ended March 31 last, the municipal buses were operated at a gross surplus of £105,419, compared with £94,389 in the previous year. The total income amounted to £338,192 and operating expenses to £232,773. Deducting interest and sinking-fund charges and income tax, the net surplus comes out at £51,456, as against £47,607 in the previous year. This improved result was achieved on a lower aggregate mileage, the past year's total being 5,583,642, compared with 6,357,526 in the preceding year.
The net surplus is the highest recorded in any year in the history of the undertaking and, in view of the rationing of fuel due to war conditions and higher costs for materials and wages, it must be considered eminently satisfactory. The corporation bus fleet consists almost entirely of vehicles of Leyland manufacture and, during the year, 40 new 54-seater double-deck oilers of this make were commissioned for service_ ABERDEEN BUSES LOSE LITTLE GROUND
APPROVING the annual report of Mr. Alfred Smith, transport manager, Aberdeen Transport Committee agreed on August 21 to. make no alteration in existing fares. According to the report, there was a gross profit of £70,305 for the year ended May 31 last, and the total revenue was £346,336, an increase of £1,716, despite nine months of war conditions.
On the buses there was a profit of £22,617, a drop of £817. Revenue was £137,374, a decrease of £35,544, and expenditure £114,756, a decrease of £34,726.
The total number of passengers carried increased by 2,291,433 to 79,466,786.
CARDIFF IS LATEST A.E.C. TROLLEYBUS OPERATOR
ANOTHER town has been added to the growing list of A.E.C. trolleybus operators in this country by the announcement that Cardiff Corporation has recently placed a contract for the supply of 10 A.E.C.-English Electric six-wheeled double-deckers of this type. Although these vehicles willtbe the first trolleybqses of this make to operate in -the city, Cardiff has had a long acquaintance with A.E.C. products, and to-day the city has an A.E.C. fleet of well over 80 double and singledeckers.
SURPLUS ON DUNDEE BUSES
I N the year ended May 15, 1940, working expenses on the operation of the municipal buses at Dundee totalled £116,704, whilst income amounted to £145,966, so that there was a surplus of £29,262. The net revenue account shows that a contribution towards the liquidation of debt takes £20,030, and, after other items have been accounted for, the surplus amounts to £3,031. During the year the, buses covered an aggregate mileage of 2,551,480 and carried 24,473,797 passengers. At the end of the year covered by the report the corporation had 105 buses.
ASHTON-UNDER.LYNE ACHIEVES ITS BEST RESULTS
LAST year's operations, covering the period ended March 31, 1940, of the Ashton-under-Lyne Passenger Transport Department were the most successful in the history of the undertakirg. Both receipts and net profit were a record. Receipts on trolleybuses were £27,214 and on motorbuses £79,958. The gross profit amounted to £36,413 and, after deducting sinking-fund charges, income tax and interest on loans, the net profit came out at £15,009. Amongst the appropriations from this sum is £5,000 as a contribution to the general rate and, after deducting other items, the surplus to be carried forward is £3,519.
There was a fall in trolleybus receipts through the abandonment of the Hathershaw route, which has been turned over to motorbuses. Fuel rationing reduced the bus mileage to just over 60 per cent, of that previously in operation.
Mr. C: Irwin Baker, M.Inst.T., general manager of the department, has every reason to be gratified with the splendid results of the past year's operations.
" CROSVILLE " SEEKS FARES REVISIONS
NOTICE has been given by Crosville Motor Services, Ltd., of Chester, of its intention to make application to the North-Western Regional Transport Commissioner for permission to revise fares on certain services starting from Chester. The proposed new basis is id. per mile for single fares and /41. per mile for return fares.