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“P.N.C.C. Charter Bus Profit Would Be ‘Impossible’”

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Description: This image was taken for the June 11th 1978, edition of the Tribune weekly newspaper, and was published with the caption: “The city's bus fleet: private operators fear a price war with the council's move to get better buses and a bigger slice of the charter market. (These buses were photographed during the drivers’ stopwork on Thursday.)”

An excerpt from the article read: “If the Palmerston North City Council commits buses solely to charter work the vehicles will have to cover an "incredibly fantastic and impossible mileage" every year to be profitable. The North Island manager of Newman’s Coachlines Mr W. A. G. Washbourn told The Tribune – this from Wellington, last week. The Tribune had asked him to comment on how he and his company felt about the possibility of the city council taking an increasing share of the bus charter market in an effort to improve the finances of its city bus operation. Bus companies that operate in the Palmerston North area are worried about the line that the council is taking. And Mr Washbourn said it would be shocking if a price war broke out between the established bus firms and the city council if the council went into the charter market in a big way. "Nobody ever benefits from that," he said.”

This image forms part of the Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection. Unfortunately, only negatives between April and December 1978 are held.