" Marathon" Day Trip Opposed by Railways A PROPOSED 18-hour coach excursion
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from Sheffield to London Airport was described at Leeds, last week, as "a marathon or endurance test." Mr. T. B. Atkinson, for British Railways, said existing facilities provided by the British Transport Commission were adequate.
He was opposing an application by C. G. Littlewood, Ltd., Sheffield, who claimed that rail passengers lost the value of an excursion to the airport through having to make their own way across London. Mr. C. J. Littlewood said he Load been taking private parties there for some time.
He explained that the coach would leave Sheffield at 7 a.m. and return at 1 a.m. the following day. Two drivers would be used. Answering Mr. Atkinson, he agreed that it would be a long ride, but he said people would enjoy it.
He called witnesses who had organized private parties because they had been inconvenienced by railway travel. The chairman, Maj. F. S. Eastwood, said he would reserve decision until he had examined the facilities in London.
MORE COMETS FOR BELGIAN CONGO
FURTHER orders for Leyland Comet oilers have been placed by the Transkat concern, a leading Belgian Congo transport organization operating from headquarters at Kindu and 11 depots in the south-east of that territory. Eight long-wheelbase vehicles with 100 b.h.p. engines and two-speed rear axles are required to meet the needs of tin mines in mountainous areas.
Similar types of Comet carrying 6-ton payloads are stated to save 4.15d. per mile in fuel costs compared with petrolengined 4-tonners which were previously operated. The vehicles have to negotiate dusty roads which on some routes ascend to as high as 7,000 ft.
LINCOLN TO RUN SINGLEDECKERS ONE of the few municipal undertakings in this country to operate double-deck buses exclusively, Lincoln Transport Department is now to place in service nine Leyland Tiger Cub standee, type single-deckers. These vehicles, which will be on the road in the late summer, will have Pneumo-Cyclic semiautomatic gearboxes.
Until 1927 it had been impossible to run double-deckers in Lincoln because of the restrictive height of Stonebow bridge, but in that year the Leyland Titan doubledecker, which offered the necessary dearance. was introduced.
BUS STATION NOT WANTED DLANS for a new corporation bus
station in Leeds will be shelved if the city council accept a recommendation from their transport committee. Aid, John Rafferty, chairman of the committee, said last week that since the scheme was first envisaged, cross-city bus services had been developed, There were now loading points at suitable places, so no extra facilities were needed. a9