MANCHESTER TO PARIS BY DOUBLE-DECKER.
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A Crossley Double-saloon Bus used for Conveying a Party of Delegates to a French Conference. •
WHAT is said to be the first occasion on which a double-salodn motorbus has entered France was 'one day last week, when a party of members of the Municipal Tramways and Transport Association, headed by its president, Mr. R. Stuart Pilcher, who, as our readers will know, is the general manager of the transport department of Manchester Corporation, crossed the Channel. The members are attending a special conference of the International -Union of Tramways and Light Railways, which is. being held in Paris, where the important subject of regenerative control is being discussed and demonstrated.
It was found necessary to make special transport arrangements for the party and the delegates virtually took their own transport with them. The vehicle which is being used is a Crossley 50-seater double-decker, similar to those buses which are being run by a number of important municipal authorities in this country.
The bus left Manchester on Thursday morning last with those delegates who were able to join it at this point, and proceeded to London. On the following :morning it picked up the remainder of the delegates at the Waldorf Hotel, London, and proceeded to Dover, where the bus was shipped to Calais. After being unloaded the bus Proceeded with the delegates to Paris, where it is being used to convey the party from place to place.
At the conclusion of the conference the bus will bring the party back to Calais and be shipped to Dover, afterwards proceeding to Manchester, via Loudon. Special permission had to be obtained for the Crossley bus to run on the streets of Paris, and it is gratifying to learn that every assistance was given by the authorities in the French capital. The Automobile Association and the Federation of British Industries cooperated in making the arrangements for-the journey.
By the use of the vehicle the delegates have spared themselves the usual inconveniences inseparable from the ordinary methods of travel from Manchester to Paris.