NEW VEHICLES FOR A BRADFORD OWNER,
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THE COACH owners of inland towns are faced with difficulties which are not part of the lot of the seaside owner, and the weather conditions exert a greater influence on their activities owing to the fact that they cannot rely
• upon the holiday-maker for patronage.
The Richmond Transport Co., of Richmond Road, Bradford, believe, however, that if the weather conditions of the approaching season are more or less normal the prospects are fairly good, although they admit that a wet season, coupled with the low rates which are ruling at, the present time, would be most disastrous.
This company will have seven vehicles on the read this season—four 28-seater, super-resilient-tyred Karrier coaches, and three 14-seater pnerimaticAyred Crossleys, the letter being new vehicles.
The type of coach which is best suited for meeting local requirements is of the open touring type, although the small 14-seater and the medium-to-large-capacity coach are popular. The Richmond Transport Co. believe that the coach with a small number of seats is better suited for work from the public stand and for the conveyance of small parties, whereas for carrying large parties and for all-round service the 28seater is very popular. They express the opinion that it is not passible to stabilize prices on a. national basis, although they think that rates could be stabilized locally, if the proprietors were not so jealoue of one another's activiti4s. The company favour the petrel tax, in place pf the vehicle tax, for the large type of vehicle, pointing out that the winter use of these Vehicles is only very small. To support their contention that the vehicle tax is -unjust the company point out that from past experience they have found that for ordinary haulage lorries, which have greater mileages to their credit than the average char-a-bancs during a period of 12 months, they pay just under half the licence duty per vehicle. A petrol tax would rectify this anomaly, and would, at all events, bring the cost of user of each type of vehicle to the same basis., according to the mileage run.