Motor Road Transport For Commercial Purposes
(Liquid Fuel, Steam, Electricity)
Forfatter: John Phillimore
År: 1920
Forlag: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd.
Sted: London
Sider: 212
UDK: 629.113
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CHAPTER XV
PASSENGER CARRYING—'TYPES OF VEHICLES
One of the best paying and the least risky branches
of motor transport is that of passenger carrying,
especially as regards the larger types of public service
vehicles.
The man who is likely to obtain the best results is
the one who purchases his vehicles after ascertaining
the class of work to which they are to be put, and
the importance of suitability can hardly be too much
insisted upon.
This is so in every branch of mechanical transport,
and passenger carrying is no exception.
The Question of Suitability.
To take two exaggerated examples, no trader
organizing such a service where long, or comparatively
long distances, are to be run would choose an exter-
nally-fired steam chassis, or a. vehicle with an all-
electric drive. According to such conditions of the
service as—
(1) The average number of passengers,
(2) Town or Country work or a combination,
(3) Condition and contour of roads,
so must the type of chassis and body be determined,
if real success is to be gained. Cases vary so widely,
and there is such a broad range in the choice of a suitable
chassis, that it is impossible to lay down any definite
rules on the matter. There are, however, one or two
points which might be mentioned as likely to prove
of help to those who do not possess much knowledge
of the subject, and who naturally wisb. to avoid the
disastrous pitfall of buying the wrong machine.
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