TROLLEY-BUS RESULTS AT DARLINGTON.
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fr HE annual accounts of the trans1 port department of the Darlington Corporation, which now operates a fleet of 24 trolley-buses over about nine miles of routes, shows a gross surplus on the past municipal year's working of 18,882. The net profit is 1109, after meeting loan, depreciation, renewals B42 and similar charges, and allowing for a loss of £1,316 incurred on experimental petrol-bus services.
The total revenue was 140,279, and working expenses amounted to £31,397, these being made up as follow ;—Traffic expenses, £18,286; general expenses, 12,866; general repairs and mainten
ance, £5,947; power expenses (current from local electricity works at id. per unit), 14,298.
During the year the trolley-buses carried 7,508.092 passengers, compared with 6,567,637 passengers in 1926-27, and covered a mileage of 759,874, as against 690,538 a year earlier.