Operating Aspects of Passenger Transport
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7/1HE opening of the new Victoria .1_ Coach Station of London Coastal Coaches, Ltd., in I3uckingliam Palace Road, London, S.W.1, last Thursday, was the occasion for a remarkable assembly of representatives of all classes of road-travel interest. The station, which has cost over 1800,000 to construct and which occupies about 1 acre, was described in our issue for last week.
The Minister of Transport, Mr. P. J. Pybus, C.l3.E., M.P., performed the opening ceremony, and remarked that the company had added dignity to the great industry of road transport by building so fine a station.
The ceremony lasted only a few minutes and was followed by a parade of vehicles of the various operating corn
of the Scottish Motor Traction Co., Ltd., 'between London and Glasgow.
At the luncheon, the toast of "The . Minister of Transport" was proposed by Colonel H. I. Robinson, chairman of London Coastal Coaches, Ltd., who presided; he referred to the diversity of operating interests concerned in the Victoria Coach Station.
Replying, the Minister of Transport referred to the size of the station, which he said, would only be justifiable on the assumption that the road-travel business vssmansiesssete, is to progress.