Ramsbottom UDC Daily Mileage Statement

Ramsbottom Urban District Council ‘Daily Mileage Statement’ – This sheet was completed in the bus depot office to record the mileage that each bus covered on which particular service. The bus fleet numbers are listed down the left hand side and the columns relate to each different ‘Route’.

The approximate date of completion of the above example was 2 August 1968 so buses 10 and 11 had not yet been delivered thus the lines are blank.

Unfortunately I cannot now recall which ‘route number’ on the sheet identified which particular service. RUDC did not show route numbers on their buses nor did Rawtenstall Corporation (Rossendale Joint Transport Committee from 1968). Bury Corporation did so displayjng 3 on the Bury-Rawtenstall-Water service and 4 on the Bury-Ramsbottom-Rawtenstall service.

Both these services were jointly licenced to the three municipalities along with Ribble Motor Services so mileage records were quite important in apportioning revenue and expenses. RUDC was the main player on service 4 (I think Bury just worked the odd peak hour trip) whilst service 3 was usually maintained by Bury and Rawtenstall Corporations. As far as I can recall Ribble did not actually work any trips on either.