OCR Text |
Show MOTOR EQUIPMENT WORKS DAY AND NIGHTJCHEDULE Victory buses which transport mine workers to Bingham Canyon Can-yon one shift are used after their return trip to serve Doughboys on a Camp Kearns Salt Lake route, according to a schedule adopted September 1. The war department says no equipment can remain idle if it can be used to benefit service men. So Lewis Brothers Stage 1 line buses and drivers are working 24-hours a day, seeing that workers in an essential industry have transportation transpor-tation to their jobs and soldiers at the Kearns Basic air replacement replace-ment training have suitable traveling trav-eling facilities to and from Salt Lake City. Since February Lewis Brothers Stage lines have built up a system sys-tem of 14 Bingham routes three for night shift (one from Draper) and 11 for day shift (serving workers residing in Draper, Sandy, Midvale, Salt Lake City and Murray). Each bus has a seating capacity for 35. Drivers are selected from a-mong a-mong the riders, an ingenious method of economizing on cost of transoortation and. also a means of prolonging service of buses. Idea for the system was first worked out in Nevada to fit conditions con-ditions similar to those of Bingham Bing-ham district. Miners for the open pit mine at Ruth, underground mine at Kimberly and smelter at McGill were transported from Ely. Additional buses were ordered about a year ago to meet expected expect-ed expansion in the transportation transporta-tion business in Nevada. After December 7 orders for buses were enlarged by the company. When requested to operate the Victory buses, Lewis Brothers met the demands. Today they have 33 buses operating in Nevada and Utah. Capacity operations at mines and the growing transportation business to and from Camp Kearns (estimated population in 60 days 50,000), mean that for the duration Lewis Brothers will be delivering, whether it be miners or soldiers, destination Bingham Canyon or Camp Kearns. |