"The new type of public rickshaw which is being built to embody teal suggestions from various sources including owners and pullers will be jailable for inspection and further suggestions will be considered after perience of actual working of the Vehicle has been obtained." (Muar cipal Gazette, August 10, 1994).
'A part that new type of public rickshaw was. being volved and that the model con structed was to be tried, Later, the owners' representatives. declared' that fa large number of new vehicles of the old type had been built, and they contended that the adoption of a ow model would render these vehiles useless. The Board replied that the material could be used as spare arts for existing rickshaws, thus avoiding serious losses, but that when fan entire rickshaw was condemned it must be replaced by a vehicle of the ow type, Here it should be stated that the adoption of a new type of rickshaw was foreshadowed in February last, so. that owners had ample warning hot to add to stocks of old style material.
During March, April and Be May, 1,686 new rickshaws of the old ut into commission by aguinst 278 condemned by the Inspection Depot, thus showing the is anxiety of owners to secure accept models before the ow type was evolved. On May 29 the Board issued a notice that in future no new public rickshaw would be licensed unless the vehicle which It was intended to replace had been condemned by the Council.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.