. Electric railway journal . or cents required for 1,821,310 passengers, the passengers perbus-mile equal while the revenue per passenger cents. The passengers per car-mile during the sameperiod equal while the revenue per passenger cents. The present Manchester bus routes are exten-sions from the Palatine Road tramway terminus toNorthenden, Cheadle and West Point. The headwaysare thirty and sixty minutes. Table II is a detailedstatement of the cost of Manchester motor-bus operationfor the year ended March 31, 1919. It will be notedthat, because of the present abnormal
. Electric railway journal . or cents required for 1,821,310 passengers, the passengers perbus-mile equal while the revenue per passenger cents. The passengers per car-mile during the sameperiod equal while the revenue per passenger cents. The present Manchester bus routes are exten-sions from the Palatine Road tramway terminus toNorthenden, Cheadle and West Point. The headwaysare thirty and sixty minutes. Table II is a detailedstatement of the cost of Manchester motor-bus operationfor the year ended March 31, 1919. It will be notedthat, because of the present abnormal price of automo-bile fuel, the cost of petrol is even higher than question, the paper on motor-bus costsversus car costs presented before the 1919 conferenceof the Municipal Tramways Association by A. , general manager Sheffield Corporation Tram-ways, is the best presentation of the subject to will be well, therefore, to repeat and supplementsome of the figures presented by Mr. Fearnley and. *In this and all other tables in this article 2 cents have beentaken as being the equivalent of 1 penny. DOUBLE-DECK BUS FOR SHEFFIELD CORPORATIONTRAMWAYS abstracted in the Electric Railway Journal for , 1919. The first point to be noted in Mr. Fearnleys paperis that the expenses of different classifications (trafficexpenses, general expenses, repairs, road maintenanceand fuel) have risen as follows: Cost per bus-mile in 1915 cents Cost per bus-mile in 1918 28. 044 cents Cost per bus-mile in 1919 April 3, 1920 Electric Railway Journal 085 Ife will be interesting to compare these increases withthose pertaining to Sheffield cars as presented in theannual report for the fiscal year ended March 25, 1919: Cost per car-mile in 1915 13. 136 cents Cost per car-mile in 1918 cents Cost per car-mile in 1919 cents From this it appears that while the bus has cents per mile since 1915, the car has risen cents per
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