Edinburgh Corporation Transport Department : Annual Report for the Year ended 28th May 1960 : photographs
From the Annual "Report and Analysis of Income & Expenditure" of the Edinburgh Corporation Transport Department for the year ending 28th May 1960; a publication that contains much of interest. As well as the pages of figures and statistics, passenger mileage, numbers and fares income, there is a narrative section telling of service changes, improvements and alterations across the Department and its operations. This included the continuing task, four years after abandonment of the trams, of lifting tram rails and reinstating road surfaces.
By 1960 the Annual Report was enlivened with photographs illustrating the work of the Department and events. This page shows three interesting photos and captions. Work to equip the first buses in the fleet with shortwave "two-way" radios was undertaken when six single deck buses (most likely some of the large fleet of Leyland Tiger Cubs) and used on night services to improve safety. A very stern looking driver sits at the wheel poised to broadcast.
The second picture relates to the experimental use of a number of Setright ticket registers at "a depot". This was successful and a large order for additional machines had been placed. The Setrights that were rolled out after 1961 were to become the standard ticket machines for the Department's conductors and OPO vehicles for many years. The photo shows a bus conductor in full uniform displaying a Setright and standing on the back platform of what looks like one of the city's vast fleet of Leyland Titan PD2/20s, with MCW bodywork, that had been bought en masse to see the city's tramways off in the early 1950s. This vast influx meant that for several years very few double deck buses were purchased such was the vehicle age profile of the fleet.
The final image is of the Calton Hill Observatory and one may wonder quite what this has to do with Edinburgh Corporation Transport?
It turns out that what we see here is not lead or copper but fibreglass fabricated at the Department's main works at Shrubhill. The works were avid users of fibreglass I recall and as well as being used for the obvious bus bodywork repairs they turned their hand to quite a range of products including street furniture for the City Council such as fibreglass bus shelters.
Edinburgh Corporation Transport Department : Annual Report for the Year ended 28th May 1960 : photographs
From the Annual "Report and Analysis of Income & Expenditure" of the Edinburgh Corporation Transport Department for the year ending 28th May 1960; a publication that contains much of interest. As well as the pages of figures and statistics, passenger mileage, numbers and fares income, there is a narrative section telling of service changes, improvements and alterations across the Department and its operations. This included the continuing task, four years after abandonment of the trams, of lifting tram rails and reinstating road surfaces.
By 1960 the Annual Report was enlivened with photographs illustrating the work of the Department and events. This page shows three interesting photos and captions. Work to equip the first buses in the fleet with shortwave "two-way" radios was undertaken when six single deck buses (most likely some of the large fleet of Leyland Tiger Cubs) and used on night services to improve safety. A very stern looking driver sits at the wheel poised to broadcast.
The second picture relates to the experimental use of a number of Setright ticket registers at "a depot". This was successful and a large order for additional machines had been placed. The Setrights that were rolled out after 1961 were to become the standard ticket machines for the Department's conductors and OPO vehicles for many years. The photo shows a bus conductor in full uniform displaying a Setright and standing on the back platform of what looks like one of the city's vast fleet of Leyland Titan PD2/20s, with MCW bodywork, that had been bought en masse to see the city's tramways off in the early 1950s. This vast influx meant that for several years very few double deck buses were purchased such was the vehicle age profile of the fleet.
The final image is of the Calton Hill Observatory and one may wonder quite what this has to do with Edinburgh Corporation Transport?
It turns out that what we see here is not lead or copper but fibreglass fabricated at the Department's main works at Shrubhill. The works were avid users of fibreglass I recall and as well as being used for the obvious bus bodywork repairs they turned their hand to quite a range of products including street furniture for the City Council such as fibreglass bus shelters.