City bus company Alfred Sager
The Alfred Sager city bus company was responsible for bus transport in the city of Delmenhorst from 1932 to 1978 .
background
When in 1932 many people ceased to be users of the Delmenhorst bus company AKB ( General Motor Vehicle Operating Company ) due to the global economic crisis , the city company had to file for bankruptcy. The then operations manager, Adolf Klobke, and his partner, Werner Sager, then took over the vehicle fleet, the workshop and the concession of the company, which then operated under the name Stadt-Omnibus Delmenhorst Sager & Klobke .
Walter Sager died in 1940, his son Alfred joined the company for him. He became the sole owner of the company in 1942 after Klobke had died. After the end of the war, Sager continued to run the company under the name of Stadtomnibusbetrieb Alfred Sager .
After the war, Sager continued to operate the company with, among other things, Borgward B1500 buses (with Pollmann body), Mercedes-Benz O 3500 E and Magirus-Deutz Saturn I. From 1965 the fleet consisted almost exclusively of vehicles from the Metrobus series from MAN (type 750 HO-M 11). During this time there were 16 city bus routes.
On February 3, 1968, protests by students from both Delmenhorst grammar schools broke out over a fare increase . Thereupon Mayor Wilhelm von der Heyde initiated a dialogue in which members of the council, the administration, the top management of Sager and a school delegation participated. It was possible to change the controversial new tariff structure, and students in particular benefited from the changes. Adjusted for inflation, the fare increase would have corresponded to an increase from € 0.59 to € 0.98. Just a month earlier, on January 15, 1968, the Bremen tram riots had occurred in the neighboring city due to a fare increase .
In 1969 the company applied for the establishment and operation of a commuter traffic line from Delmenhorst to Bremen-Sebaldsbrück to the plant of Hanomag-Henschel GmbH.
From 1973 Sager began to convert the vehicle fleet to buses according to the standards of the VÖV ( standard bus ), mainly of the MAN SL 200 type .
Demands to localize bus operations in Delmenhorst coincided with Alfred Sager's interest in retiring in the mid-1970s . He sold his company to Bremer Straßenbahn AG , which together with the city of Delmenhorst founded Delbus GmbH, which took over operations on June 1, 1978. Sager's buses, which had been taken over by Delbus, were gradually replaced, but remained in the cityscape for a few years because they were used as school buses until they were finally decommissioned . The Borgward bus, built in 1953, was taken over by Bremer Straßenbahn AG.
swell
- Sager buses shaped the Delmenhorster Center, Delmenhorster Kreisblatt , accessed on March 19, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vehicle information from the friends of the Bremen tram
- ^ Schoolchildren protest against the increase in bus fares, Delmenhorster Kreisblatt online, accessed on March 21, 2018
- ↑ Lower Saxony State Archives Oldenburg (NLA OL, Rep 400, Akz. 259 No. 101)