A NEW COACH STATION FOR MANCHESTER
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Fingland's Hire Cars, Ltd., is Interested in a Station which is Expected to be Ready by Easter ACOMPANY with the title Coach Station and Bookings, Ltd., has recently been formed by directors of Fingland's Hire Cars, Ltd., the well-, known coach-operating concern, of 9; St. Peter's Square, Manchester, with the object of constructing and operating a comprehensively appointed covered coach station at Great Bridgewater Street, near St. Peter's Square, Manchester. As the accompanying map shows, the position chosen is a central one just off Oxford Road ; the station is the first of its kind in Manchester.
After acquisition of the site the buildings on it were demolished, and coustrnction of the new station is now in progress, so that it is hoped the station will be ready to deal with the Easter traffic. Agreements have already been made to take over the control of bookings in Manchester in respect of several operating concerns serving regularly all parts of the conntry.
Coaches will enter the station by a rear doorway, parking space under a glass roorbiing available for at "least eight vehicles, and allowing a clear way for arriving and departing coaches.
Refuelling can be effected from pumps at the station, but all actual servicing work, including the washing of vehicles, will continue to be carried out at the separate garage of Fingland's Hire Cars, Ltd., at 213, Wilmslow Road, Rusholine.
Exit from the station is by a doorway at the front, forming an archway in the station building. On one side of this arch will be a capacious booking office, whilst on the other side there will be a shop. The administration offices, refreshment rooms, lavatories, etc., will be on the first floor. There will be a private telephone exchange to Provide communication with the booking agencies and other interested business concerns.
Fingland's Hire Cars, Ltd., has, of course, a well-established business in its regular London-Manchester coach service, this being operated by a fleet of luxuriously appointed T.S.M. Express vehicles. To augment the rolling stock two new A.E.C. Regal coaches, with bodies by Messrs. H. V. Burlingham, of Blackpool, have been ordered and are expected to be on the road by Easter.
At the London end the service is at present operating from the Ce4ral London (Road Transport) Station, Crescent Place, W.C.1.
The departures from Manchester are made daily at 9.45 a.m. and 11 p.m., those from London being at 9.10 am. and 11 p.m. The single fare is 15s. and the return fare 25s. During the summer the service is increased as occasion demands, and all through last summer it enjoyed considerable popularity.