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Closed-Circuit Television Used to Control Buses in Leeds
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A DEMONSTRATION of the sort of PA pictures the television camera could provide for the bus operator of his main operation centres and trouble spots was given by Pye T.V.T., Ltd., last week, for Leeds City Transport Committee and officials, at the request of Mr. T. Lord, general manager of the undertaking. The pictures were of the Corn Exchange area, one of the busiest loading points, and were transmitted to the Central Operations -Room at the Swinegate headquarters, nearly a quarter mile away, by co-axial cable.
"This is the first application of its kind in the country," said Mr. Lord to the committee members watching the demonstration. "The object of the exercise is to see if closed circuit television can give us a clear picture of what is going on in the three or four very important loading points in the city area and, perhaps by means of a mobile unit. elsewhere. We then have to decide whether this can help us to increase efficiency, and save money.
"Many industries are finding it a useful tool and it has an obvious potential to us, for nothing else could give us such a complete view, in one room, of the contemporary scene at our main trouble spots.
"We don't want to spy on the staff, this is something much bigger than that. We want, by a more effective deployment of our buses, to produce economies which will help us to meet the 02,000 increase in the wages bill, take some of the stress out of peak time driving and conducting. and get a quicker clearing of the queues.
"If we really are offered these advantages for as little outlay as the cost of two new buses then we must be interested."
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