Motor Bus Service: Defect in Morris Commercial Vehicles
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Various faults with the Morris buses including cylinder casings, crank casings, fan belts etc. General disappointment with their reliability. Also memorandum re faults with Morris lorries.
Estimates for railway expenditure in 1930, including the bus, telegraph and telephone services. Narrative of planned spending, and schedules of individual staff to accompany the estimates. Also includes tables showing detailed approved spending for 1929 and estimates for 1930, and revenue and e...
Motor Bus Service Duty allowance for officer in charge of
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Proposal to pay an allowance of £50 to the Officer-in-Charge of the motor bus service. Notes that the bus service has extended beyond the route of the Hill Railway it replaced, and is carrying more traffic.
Lease of land from the Paramount Chief for the construction of new quarters for African workers, and proposed rents. Includes a rough plan of Pendembu railway yard.
Railway Statistics and systems of railway-accounting in the colonies - question of
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Discussion of the adoption of more modern accounting and statistics-gathering methods and if they would save work and money. Issue of introduction of uniform statistics for West African railways.
Estimates and proposals for the establishment of a motor bus service to replace the Mountain (Hill) Railway service, including draft timetables and routes, costings, etc. Also proposal for a delivery van for a parcels delivery service around Freetown, purchase of a cylinder boring machine for the...
Notices of and correspondence concerning European railway staff acting in more senior roles. Gives details of several individual staff and their usual and temporary roles.
Proposals for the motor bus service to replace the Mountain (Hill) Railway, including proposed routes, criticism of the Hill Railway by Brig.-Gen. Hammond's report, representations against the closure of the railway from the local headman at Wilberforce, estimates for establishing the bus service...