New Coach Station for Birmingham
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E only non-con-thine coach station in Birmingham has been opened by Allenways, ,Ltd., Moseley Street,. Birmingham, in a central position near the Bull Ring, which will enable operators to reach the station from the north and south without using the main city arteries.
Subject, in some instances, to the grant of licences, the station will be used during the season by nine coaching concerns for 20 different services, and booking facilities will be available to 13 operators. Allenways, Ltd., will run six of the services and excursions and tours from the station, which is owned by Storage and Haulage, Ltd., and managed by Allenways, Ltd.
The building has a 92-ft. frontage and a length of 190 ft. A buffet and waiting room are provided for passengers, and there is a circulating area for use at rush periods. A booking office and left-luggage office are situated off the entrance hall, and movable barriers will he used to control passengers when loading.
Three pits, designed to accommodate underfloor-engined vehicles, are provided for maintenance. The stores and workshops are at pit-floor level. Twenty-eight vehicles may be housed inside the building and there is a parking area for a further 10 coaches. The roof height is sufficient for doubledeckers. Allenways, Ltd., operates 19 coaches.
Temporary office accommodation will be used this season, but all administrative • offices will eventually be located upstairs, where a balcony will give a view of the entire station.
PERMIT WITHDRAWALS: TELL R.H.A.
" NAEMBERS should let the Associa IVI know immediately if their operations are hampered by withdrawal or modification of their permits since the General Election last October. Several reports have already been received that hauliers with ordinary permits have had the terms of those permits drastically reduced, with the result that they will be compelled to go out of business unless they can find work to do within the 25-mile limit."
Mr. R. B. Brittain, chairman of the -Eastern Area of the Road Haulage Association, made this statement at Ipswich sub-area's annual dinner last week. He added that the scope permitted to hauliers under the Transport Act should not be further whittled away until denationalization could be accomplished.
THAMES PRICES UP
BASIC prices of Thames vehicles lirose on Monday by £19-£65. With purchase tax, the 5-cwt. van now costs £338 s. 6d.; 10-cwt. van, £446 15s. Id.; 2-tonner, £773 8s. 2d.; 5-tonnes (petrol), £940 19s. 8d.; 5-tonner. (oil), £1,353 19s. 2d. •
PriceSof the vans last tose in October, 1951, and those of the medium chassis in September.