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D13931-1
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- 1942-12-28 (Creation)
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Robert D. O'Neil, Tacoma Utilities Commissioner, Amos Booth, the Beltline superintendent, and Walter Frankland, local transportation administrator (l to r) were photographed in December of 1942 inside one of the U.S. Navy busses that had just been brought from Bremerton to be used on the Tacoma tideflats. At the end of 1942, Tacoma did not have enough busses to efficiently move all the employees working at the various businesses located on the tideflats; and they didn't have sufficient parking if all the employees drove their own cars. Mr. Frankland made arrangements with the Navy to lease eight diesel-electric busses each of which could carry 43 seated passengers - or 95 passengers if riders stood in the extra wide aisles. (T. Times 12/28/1942 p.1)
Mass transit--Tacoma; Buses--Tacoma; World War, 1939-1945--Transportation--Tacoma; ONeil, Robert D.; Booth, Amos; Frankland, Walter;