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THE LITTLE RED BOOK
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I-1 A NEW edition of the Passenger NEW handbook, "The . Little Red Book ", was published by Ian Allan, Terminal House, Shepperton, Middlesex, last month, price 25s. This most useful handbook is a pocket-sized version of the well-known Passenger Transport Year Book and lists all the known. bus and coach operators in this country, together with brief, vital statistics of the undertakings. These include the names of the principal officers, sizes of fleets. makes of vehicles operated and types of services run.
The book is divided into sections. starting with municipal operators. followed Inv State-owned undertakings, the BET group and then independeut operators, the latter arranged under separate Counties. The various organizations and societies associated with the bus industry are listed at the back of the book. • Compiling such a wad( must be a very difficult task, depending so much' on replies from individual operators, and it is perhaps inevitable that a new edition is slightly out of date even before publication. For example, Mr. Pulfrey is still quoted as general manager of Kingstonupon-Hull Corporation Transport instead of. Mr. W. K. Haigh, who succeeded him last month; similarly, Mr: Lloyd is quoted as operating manager of London Transport's central buses instead of Mr. M. J. McCoy, who took up this post in September. On the operators' side there is no reference to Whytes (Edgware) Ltd. who have more than 20 coaches, while Whiteway Coaches of Sunderland, with one vehicle, is listed. Nevertheless, the book is a most useful work' of reference . for the passenger transport executive, and certainly the most thumbed volume on my desk. FKM