Coach-Air Service to Southern France
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A SCHEDULED coach-air service to I-1 southern France will start on May 9, with a frequency of four services a week. The return fare of i19 15s. is subject to Government approval. The journey from London to Nice will take 15 hours.
Skyways, Ltd., 7 Berkeley Street, London, W.1, the Cterators, will work in conjunction with the East Kent Road Car Co., Ltd., and French coach operators. The air part of the journey will he between Lynnpne and Lyons.
[The Skyways coach-air operations from London to Paris were described in The Commercial Motor on November 30, 1956.]
REMOVERS'CONFERENCE NEXT MONTH
THE .National Association of Furniture Warehousemen and Removers are to hold their annual conference at the Park Lane Hotel, London, W.1, from May 22-23. The president for 1957-58 will be elected.
Proceedings will include a short paper on wages and working conditions and a discussion of whether a standard system of estimating should be taught. Overseas contractors will speak on removers' problems in their own countries.
40 M.P.H. FOR BUSES?
pRESSURE on the Minister of Transport to revise the speed limit for public service vehicles is to be continued, says the annual report of the Public Transport Association. In particular, it is to be urged that there should be no differentiation between private cars and public service vehicles on roads on which a 40 m.p.h. limit is to be allowed