A Really Comprehensive Road-travel Guide.
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WE have been aware for a short time past that an organization was being formed for the Production of a time-table giving information relating to the whole of the motorbus and motorcoach services run to schedule throughout Great Britain and Ireland. We now learn that Roadways (Preliminary), Ltd., of. Sentinel House, Southampton Row, tendon, W.C.1, was recently formed to undertake, as its name implies, the preliminary work necessary Mr such a publication.
We have nose been supplied with information as to the form which the time-table will take, and it would appear from the details which it is to contain that it will be most comprehensive. The guide will actually be more than a mere tune-table of services, for it will contain sectional maps of the whole country and an index arranged in alphabetical order of the various towns and cities served; interesting items relating be each being given. We are told that the first number of the guide will appear on Yebruary 1st next, and thereafter it will be published se monthly intervals. In cmineetion with its publication there will be a free insurance scheme, conducted, we are told, by a well-known office, whereby purchasers of the guide are insured to the extent of £2,000 in the event of a fatal accident whilst they are travelling by coach or bus as fare-paying passengers. The price of the guide will be 6d.
The guide will be so arranged that travellers and tourists will find it possible to select the most suitable route to travel from two points, however far apart they may be, and, by the use of a simple system of reference, it will be Possible to ascertain the connections which are made at different centres and where a change from one vehicle to another is necessary. A portion of the guide will Contain particulars of booking offices and information bureaux as well as details of hotels, garages, board
ing establishments, estate agents, etc.
It is not the intention of Roadways (Preliminary), Ltd., to compete in any way with existing organizations which are giving efficient service, but wherc an opening exists it will, we are told, open up booking offices. The publisher does, however, propose to open a booking office and information bureau in London, from which full particulars relating to the different services in operation can be secured, this service helve given whether tickets are purchased or not through the medium of the company.
We are told that the company is guaranteeing for the guide a-net circulation of 50,000 copies per month. The ferns in which the various time-tables are arranged makes it possible to ascertain very quickly the departure and arrival time of buses working on different routes, whilst the publication of fares from terminal to terminal as well as to stage points on each route is a feature which will be much appreciated.