. Electric railway journal . tition, the BaltimoreTransit Company and the City MotorCompany were organized. The latteroperated the Baltimore type of Fordjitney in direct competition with theexisting independent jitneys, and the former, a higher-class bus service operating on Charles Street. The City Motor Company operating Ford jitneysstarted with twenty-seven of these cars and later pur-chased five Vim chassis to replace an equal number ofFords which had been retired. These cars were operatedfrom July 25, 1915, until Sept. 28, 1916, and the totalnet cost of the experiment was upward of $115,0
. Electric railway journal . tition, the BaltimoreTransit Company and the City MotorCompany were organized. The latteroperated the Baltimore type of Fordjitney in direct competition with theexisting independent jitneys, and the former, a higher-class bus service operating on Charles Street. The City Motor Company operating Ford jitneysstarted with twenty-seven of these cars and later pur-chased five Vim chassis to replace an equal number ofFords which had been retired. These cars were operatedfrom July 25, 1915, until Sept. 28, 1916, and the totalnet cost of the experiment was upward of $115,000,the deficit from operation being more than $85,000. The experience demonstrated conclusively what hadbeen felt was the correct conclusion, viz.: that therewas no money in the small-capacity Ford jitney. Theconstantly changing ovmership of the jitneys operatedin competition with us was the same as in other sections fore this, also, that the question of competitive motor- of the country, and the deduction that the unemploy-. FLEET OF BUSES USED IN AUXILIARY SERVICE IN BALTIMORE 14 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 55, No. 1
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