MR. BARR ON GERMAN TOUR PROSPECTS
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FR" July until the end of September, Wallace Arnold Tours, Ltd., Leeds, is to keep a number of coaches on the Continent for the tours to Germany, via Belgium, which it is running this season. Bookings are already fairly brisk.
Arrangements for basing the vehicles on the Continent were made by Mr. Robert Barr, managing director of Wallace Arnold Tours, Ltd., and of other companies in the Barr group, during a personal tour of Belgium and Germany, from which he returned last Saturday. All the four tours will start, so far as the Continental part of the journey is concerned, from Antwerp, and proceed through the Meuse Valley, via Dinant, and thence through Luxemburg to Treves, in Germany.
There are two nine-day tours, which will follow the same route through Wiesbaden to Heidelberg, and then return west. Of the two other trips, each for 16 days, one will include Frankfort, Leipzig, Berlin and the Harz Mountains, and the other, the Black Forest, Lake Constance, the Bavarian Alps, Oberammergau and Munich. On all the tours a part of the return journey will be by river steamer on the Rhine. The fare for the nineday tours is 18 guineas, and that for the 16-day tours is 30 guineas.
On his return from his visit to Ger many, during which he studied the possibilities of the Continental coach tour for British holiday-makers, Mr. Barr gave an interview to our Yorkshire correspondent.
With regard to touring prospects, Mr. Barr said: "Not only is there magnificent scenery, but it is greater in extent than in Britain. Hotel facilities for tourists are excellent, both in the cities and in the smaller places, and hotel charges are, if anything, lower than in this country. I found the Germans most hospitable-, they arc glad to welcome tourists.
"The roads are nothing like so good as in this country," he continued. " They are much narrower, and the surfaces are not up to the same standard. Motorbuses are, surprisingly enough, almost non-existent."
17 NEW OILERS FOR NOTTINGHAM
THE merits of trolleybuses, petrol buses and oilers were debated at a meeting of Nottingham City Council, on Monday, when it was decided to raise a loan of £26,000 for the purchase of 17 additional oil-engined buses. At present, the corporation has in Commission 15 oilers; 25 are being delivered, whilst the additional 17 vehicles will bring the total of oilers to 57.
Alderman H. Bowles, speaking in favour of the trolleybus, forecast that the taxation on petrol and oil had not yet reached its limit. The trolleybus had, he said, shown more than double the percentage of profit per mile than that of the petrol or oil-engined vehicles.
Sir Albert Atkey argued that the tendency would be for taxation to decrease, for the bus was becoming increasingly to be regarded as the poor man's motorcar, and he would be a bold Chancellor of the Exchequer who persisted in taxing the poorest of the people. Sir Albert regarded the trolleybus as a transitional stage in transport.
26 DAILY DEPARTURES TO EAST ANGLIA.
ACCORDING to its new summer time-table, the Eastern Counties Omnibus Co., Ltd., is operating, this year, no fewer than 26 daily departures from Victoria Coach Station, London, into East Anglia and Cambridgeshire.