SPECIAL NAPIER HOTEL BUSES.
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One. of our illustrations on this page is of a station omnibus which Las been supplied by the Hertford Street Motor Hiring Co., Ltd., Mayfair, to the Branksome Towers Hotel, Bournemouth. The. machine in question is one of the 10 h.p., aain-driven Napiers, of which the chassis has been adapted to carry the hotel-omnibus body which is shown. The Hertford Street concern has other chassis of the same type, which it is offering for a similar purpose. The distance from the station to the Branksome Towers Hotel is four miles, and the omnibus runs to and fro to meet all trains. The example. which we illustrate has been in service for 15 months, and we learn from its owners thatit has performed consistently and with entire satisfaction to the hotel proprietors. The body has seating acconnnodation tor 10 inside passengers, and it is electric-lighted throughout. The roof is constructed to take a large amount of luggage, as may be seen from the interesting photograph which we, are enabled to reproduce. A light folding ladder is provided to facilitate access to the roof. The rails are detachable. The windows are of plate glass and are set in polished mahogany frames, it being possible to raise -or lower them in the usual way.
The employment of machines of amplepower and rocm.ing on pneumatics or twin pneumatics, for service in connection with outlying hotels and hydros in this country and in the Colonies, is remarkably on the increase. These Napier ch-as of course, were originally designed as high-grade touring cars, and this special employment by exelusive hotels is not by any means inappropriate. The. service, in the nature of things, is very similar to that which is required by many a large country house situated at some distance from a railway station.