A Co-operative Fleet.
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0-OPERATIVE societies throughout the couhtry are big users of motor coaches, and Plymouth is no eXcep-am/ to the rule. The fleet of charsA,bancs which is operated from Vauxhall Street by the Plymouth Co-onerative Society consists of one 12 seater Ford, three 15 seater Albions, fourteen Dennis 29-seaters, and one 35 seater Dennis, which they claim to be the largest fleet in the West of England.
We notice in the book of excursions issued for the forthcoming season that 30 distinct day tours, 13 half-d2,y trips, four two-day tours, and six fnree-day tours have been mapped out. Seven and 14 day tours are undertaken, according to itineraries, which can be arranged by parties, the mileage limit for seven flays being 750 and for 14 days • just double that figure.
-At Plymouth the short and long distance touring season opened on Good Friday-, though more than half of the total fleet of vehicles run by the Plymouth Co-operative Society has been fully occupied during the winter months carrying football parties, etc.
Although motor coach operation is quite a secondary consideration with the Plymouth Co-operative Society—goods transport constituting their chief business—it is instructive to observe that over 50,000 passengers were carried during the 1920 season, a. figure which gives every promise of being beaten in 1.921; that IS, if advance bookings
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indication of the potential demand.