Identifier: electricrailway541919newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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in American money have been obtained by assuming a value of2 cents for Id. ance of passengers and parcels in or on their motor omni-buses as they may think fit. With the parliamentary authority above referred to, theSheffield Corporation commenced in 1913 to run motor-omnibus services on a number of routes within the cityand as extensions of its tramway routes outside the cityand has continued since that date as opportimity offeredto extend such system, until it has now services covering37 miles of road, of which 15 miles is within the cityboundary, and 22 miles outside the city on County Councilroads. Altogether about forty motor-omnibuses are em-ployed. At least six additional routes are contemplated,a number of which are to be put into operation as soon asa further supply of suitable onmibuses can be obtained. The results of the first three years operation were excel-lent but, of course, war conditions, especially during thelast two years, made the working of the services very dif-
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OUTLINE MAP OF TRAMWAY AND MOTOR-BUS LINES IN SHEFFIELDHeavy lines show bus routes ficult. At times, owing to inability to obtain spare partsand carry out repairs, it was almost impossible.The expenses for the last two years are as follows: AVERAGE EXPENDITURE PER BUS-MILE 1915 1918 1919 Cents Cents Cents 6.02 9.86 14.17 0.74 0.76 1.06 3.83 8.82 9.05 Road maintenance account 0.11 0.29 0.40 Power expenses (gasoline) 3.37 8.31 11.10 Total working expenses. 14.07 28.04 35.78 Although on country roads the single-deck bus is themore satisfactory type of vehicle, the preference in thedistrict for the double-deck bus is so pronounced that wehave tried as far as possible to meet this requirement, 75per cent being of the latter type. On the city routes this class of service undoubtedly pro-vides a great public convenience for short-distance cross-town traffic through streets and districts which cannot beserved by cars. The traffic which has been developed on roads branch-ing off from tramway r

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