HUGE UNDERTAKING.
Remarkable Success of London Transport Board. FIRST YEAR'S OPERATIONS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 18. The Passenger Transport Board, which is undoubtedly the greatest urban transport organisation in the world, will shortly celebrate its first birthday. Remarkable smoothness and efliciency have marked the rcslilt of the co-ordina-tion of services. The board comprises 92 concerns—five railways, 17 tramways, 02 omnibus, four coach and four subsidiary undertakings—and has a total capital of approximately £109,000,000. Its staff numbers 02,000 and it owns a total of 11,550 passenger vehicles. Tho board serves an area of 2000 square miles and a population of approximately 9,400,000, or nearly onequarter of that of England and Wales. In 1933, its undertakings carried 3,500,000,000 passengers. This is equal to conveying every day almost as many people as there are in the whole of Canada, and more than the combined population of Scotland and Ireland.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 143, 19 June 1934, Page 7
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147HUGE UNDERTAKING. Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 143, 19 June 1934, Page 7
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