COACHING PLANS OF A CHASSIS MAKER.
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Brief Details of a Branch of the Activities of the Bristol Tramways and Carriage Co., Ltd.
MITE side of the activities of the J. Bristol Tramways and Carriage Co., Ltd., Tramways Centre, Bristol, which is perhaps best known to our readers is that concerned with the maimfacture of various types of commercial chassis for the transport of goods. and passengers, Many of our readers-
• sertainly those who have visited Bristol —will know, however, that the company maintains a most comprehensive network of bus services which radiate to tnost parts of Somerset, Gloucester and Wiltshire.
The company's initial venture into bus operation was in 1906 and the system was developed on intensive lines to such an estent that over 100 regular services were in operation in 1925, covering over 1,200 route-mile.s. The buses serve a host of districts which are not readily accessible by other means of transport and they are extensively used.
Apart from the activities we have briefly outlined, the company also maintains a series of coach tours during the season, and a handbook which it has just issued contains a summary of the various places which are regularly visited and the itinerary which is fol
lowed. In all, 82 different tours are scheduled and a varied selection of them is run every week during the summer. The routes for all the tours and the halting places en route have been carefully planned and chosen, and at the catering establishments selected efficient and satisfactory accommodatioa is guaranteed.
Certain of the most popular runs to Bournemouth, Weymouth, the Wye Valley and Weston-simper-Mare are carried through every day at the same times. The range of tours provides an "opportunity for seeing, in the course of a day's run, some of the most interesting places of scenic and historical interest in Gloucestershire, Somersetshire, Wiltshire, Devonshire and Dorsetshire. The company's headquarters are ideally loeated for the inauguration of wholeday, half-day and evening runs. The roads which are traversed are clearly shown on maps reproduced in the handbook, which also contains a number of pictures of some of the places visited and features of interest in them. Each tour is referred to in detail in the form of a progressive narrative, which
should serve to give added interest to passengers.
It is perhaps hardly necessary to mention that Bristol cos:dies of a modern type are used on all the tours. The chassis employed have been specially designed for passenger-carrying and, by reason of the excellence of the maintenance equipment which the company possesses, the vehicles are at all times kept in a condition which ensures safe and comfortable travel. The handbook is on sale (price 6d.) at all the company's depots and booking offices.