New buses next year
The first of the Christchurch Transport Board’s new fleet of buses should arrive in a year. The board’s general manager, Mr Max Taylor, has returned from West Germany where the prototype has been completed. Mr Taylor said that all the board’s requirements had been completed apart from some minor points which were being. fixed.
The prototype had not been on the road when Mr Taylor visited the manufacturer but he believes that road tests will now be under way. The board has commissioned 58 of the vehicles to replace city buses over the next five years. They will cost an estimated $14.1 million. The Transport Board has joined the Auckland Regioaal Authority in buying
the buses from the MA.N. company. Auckland will receive its first batch of five buses next July, while Christchurch will receive its shipment of 10 vehicles in Octo“These 10 should all be on the road by Christmas. It is a little later that we expected but production has been delayed by strikes in Germany,” said Mr Taylor.
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