ENGLISH AND AMERICAN BUSES
THE LOADING LINE QUESTION
MACHINES ORDERED FOR «Z'.., - WELLINGTON,
"Up'sldonla" in a letter to the Editor writes:'—
In the general interest taken on a more important decision it has perhaps not been noted that the public of Wellington will shortly be invited to travel in a fleet of the American "Mack" motor omnibuses ordered by. the Wellington City Council as a result, if memory truly serves, of. sec-ond-hand experience of similar vehicles in Australia. Their recommendation, from- the " boost" recently given, is apparently that they have a low load line and need, therefore, ono step up only. It is true that orders have been placed for several buses of English manufacture; but one is led to suppose, from the report of an intorview published in a recent issue, that the bulk of the order has been given for the American bus, and that the English .vehicle is only being granted a comparative trial against the accepted merits of its American competitor. When it is realised that practically 1 every township and village, apart from the cities, in Eng : land, Wales, and Scotland is now served by motor omnibuses running under all the varying conditions of grade, road surface, and climate which appertain in the two Kingdoms and the principality, it might well be thought possible that the Eng-. ]ish"'makeis could rise to the occasion of • supplying" the, needs of Wellington cifcy'and suburbs. It would be idle to deny that it is in my mind, as in that' of others, that for the sake of uniformity, preference will in future be given to the omnibus which is in the majority. May one suggest that the timo has, now arrived when the laws should require that all things, required by a municipality exceeding m value a certain amount should be invited by public tender. On a question of transport generally it may be of interest to state that the Ipswich Corporation, having torn up its tramways, has decided to order at a cost of £41,700 .thirty new Bingledeck trolly tramcars, each to carry thirty persons.
ENGLISH AND AMERICAN BUSES
Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 118, 14 November 1925, Page 8
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