TROLLEY BUSES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27523, 18 October 1950, Page 6

TROLLEY BUSES

Arrival By Persic ASSEMBLY IN DUNEDIN When six trolley bus chassis now on the ship Persic at Port Chalmers are unloaded, they will be brought to Dunedin and assembled in the yards of J. and A. P. Scott for the suppliers, Leyland Motors. When the chassis are assembled, they will be delivered to two storage depots owned by the Transport Department of the City Corporation. Some of the buses will be housed in the former cable car sheds in the Kaikorai Valley, and others will be taken to the city tramsheds. The building of the bodies for these six buses will be carried out in the transport depot at Market street, where bodies have been built in the past for other types of vehicles. The Daily Times was told that four of the trolley bus chassis which were sent by the suppliers to Lyttelton were damaged at sea in transit from England, and an inspection of these has been carried out to determine whether they will be retained in this country or returned to England for repair or replacement. The result of the inspection is not yet known in Dunedin.

An electrical engineer for Metropoli-tan-Vickers, Mr J. D. Phare, of Wellington, arrived in Dunedin yesterday to test the electric equipment of the prototype bus now in the tramsheds before it has its trial runs shortly. '

Three buses which have been assembled in Christchurch are now almost ready to be towed to Dunedin. When the electrical equipment for the route from the tramsheds to Opoho is completed, this will be tested. The service to Opoho is expected to begin late in December.