TRAM ARRANGEMENTS IN HOLIDAY TIME
ENORMOUS DETAIL WORK To the general public the holiday rushes mean a few more trams. To the tramway officials these few more trams involve preparation of time-tables that take a month of very solid work. the likely requirements have to be estimated, and the arrangements made to meet them. At some stages during the holidays the tramway department will have 194 tramcars out on the raiia. In all the general orders and timetables cover nearly 400 sheets of closely-typed instructions, every ir = n on duty knowing exactly what he h..; to do and exactly where he should be almost to the minute. The inspectors have power in oertain cases to use trams as the— deem fit. The time-tables have been so arranged that no one man gets more than the others in special “can-beck*” to work.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 235, 23 December 1927, Page 11
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141TRAM ARRANGEMENTS IN HOLIDAY TIME Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 235, 23 December 1927, Page 11
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