Coronation Tours : 200 Dispensations
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nISPENSATIONS have been added
to the road service licences of nearly 200 excursion and tour operators by the West Midland Licensing Authority to enable them to run coaches to London on every day in June for the Coronation celebrations.
The companies are all established operators, but most of them are not licensed to run vehicles to the capital. They lodged about 300 applications to operate Coronation tours and the Authority gave his decision in chambers He made certain amendments to th: conditions as sought, to achieve 3. degree of uniformity.
DRIVERS and conductors of the Western National Omnibus Co., Ltd., are wholeheartedly opposed to the use of crush-load single-deckers and are taking up the matter with a higher authority. Mr. M. Brock, a Western National conductor, made this statement at a recent meeting of St. Austell and District Trades Council. when the company's experimental buses seating 35 passengers and accommodating 29 standing were discussed.
REFLECTORS LIGHT AT 1,090 Ff.
RECENT developments in lighting equipment were explained by Dr. J. H. Nelson, chief lighting engineer of Joseph Lucas, Ltd., to 300 motor agents and traders at a Lucas conference at Eastbourne on Tuesday.
It was demonstrated how well two modern rear lights could be seen 400 ft. away, even in bad weather, and how reflectors caught in a head-lamp beam at 1,000 ft. showed up as bright as ordinary lamps.
LAST OF THE 750
THE last of the 750 underfloor". engined buses ordered under the £4m. contract placed with Leyland Motors, Ltd., by the Argentine Ministry of Transport in July, 1951, arc due to leave Britain this month. The Argentine order for 150 Leyland-M.C.W. Olympics is nearing fulfilment.