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imoRE than 4,000 bookings were sai In to have been received in advance c the world's first fare-paying Hovercral service which is due to be inaugurate between Rhyl and Wallasey today, Frida! Six round trips a day are scheduled fc the Vickers-Armstrongs VA-3 operated b British United Airways, the charge bein £1 single and £2 return. The experimenta service is due to run until September.
"ONE-MAN BUSES NO PANACEA
ONE-MAN buses are no panacea fo the economic ills of British bu operation, Mr. W. M. Little has toli Edinburgh Transport Committee. Centre in Europe, America and Canada operal ing one-man units were bankrupt, he said This country could still make bus-runnin; pay and it was vital that there should 1:1 no destruction of that situation.
Among factors against one-man bu operation were the alteration in fan structure involved and the slower opera tional routines. But the city planned ti transfer certain routes to one-man opera tion in October or November.
EVAN COOK COMPANY
ANEW company, Evan Cook Holdings Ltd., was registered last week, witl a capital of £100. Directors are Mr George Evan Cook, Mr. John E. Evai Cook and Mr. C. A. Davis. It is under stood that this entails no change in tin existing Evan Cook concerns.