Municipal Motors.

Progress, Volume III, Issue 9, 1 July 1908, Page 306

Municipal Motors.

At Glasgow the Corporation recently appointed a special committee to frame regulations with a view of drawing up a scheme by which the total cost of each car should be charged proportionately to the department of the Corporation according to the number of miles which it has run in that particular service. They have now completed their labours, and in future the words " Corporation of Glasgow" are to be printed in letters of the same size and distinctness as the existing identification mark. All cars attached to various departments are, in future, to be kept at the depot of the Tramways Department and put at the call of any of the Corporation officers, irrespective of their particular work in the past. To each vehicle a speedometer and milometer is to be affixed, so that at the end of the year the total mileage can be ascertained. The total cost of the running will be taken, and the proportion of expenses charged to each department on the basis already mentioned. These regulations seem well framed to secure their end, and should also prevent the use of municipal motor vehicles for private enjoyment