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15th July 1955, Page 45
15th July 1955
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Page 45, 15th July 1955 — Big New Coach Garage
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A HUNDRED years of progress in road transport 1--X was epitomized in the opening, last week, of a

new 30,000-sq.-ft. garage, incorporating workshops with sunken pits, stores and offices, for George Ewer and Co., Ltd., 55 Stamford Hill, London, N.16. After Cllr. H. Foxon, Mayor of Hackney, had raised the electrically operated doors of the garage, the first vehicle to enter was a stage coach drawn by four horses and followed by two of the latest Leyland 41-seat luxury coaches. These three vehicles had paraded through London.

Brig. R. J. 0. Dowse, Metropolitan Licensing Authority, speaking at the opening ceremony, recalled that the Ewer organization was founded with horses in 1885. George Ewer and Co., Ltd. were pioneers of regular express services, and the group, including Keith and Boyle (Orange Luxury Coaches), Ltd., Fallowfield and Britten, Ltd., and Ardley Bros. Coaches, Ltd., now operated over 200 coaches. Ii:. stressed the desirability, in promoting public safety, of picking up and setting down passengers off the highway, and commended the co-operation of the Ewer group in this connection.

Brig. Dowse said that the first licence issued in 1931 by Mr. Gleeson E. Robinson, then the Traffic Corn missioner, was granted to Keith and Boyle, and was No. 0001. The original licence, bearing the marks of enemy action, now hung in his office. Mr. F. J. Speight, director and general manager, said that the modernization of the Bethnal Green

coach station was being discussed, and plans for extending the stations at Clacton and Yarmouth were being considered.


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