THE CITY'S BUSES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 185, 7 August 1925, Page 6

THE CITY'S BUSES.

There is something comic in the procedure of the City Council in respect of the complaints that have been made about the defects -of its eolid-tyred buses. The, complaining has been going on for months, but the Tramways Committee reported last evening that the department was still experimenting. It is fair to say that according to the chairman of the committee a mistake made by English exporters" has delayed matters, but this does not materially affect the situation. Long ago it should have been clear to the authorities that the choice of solid tyres was a blunder. They make travelling uncomfortable-, they add to the Vibration felt along the route,- and they are hard on the roads. The initial mistake was in ordering this type of tyre. Indeed, the original large bus, fitted with eolid tyres, was_ a blunder in every respect. If the Couiicll had wished to play into the hands of ita rivals it could not have made a better choice than the type of vehicle which and we say it with no desire to help the private far. ae ; running is concerned, the most uncomfortable in the city - 1 :. i-■*■!. ir....i: li.«uliuj. :