Coach for U.S. Tour , LAIMED to be the first complete

21st September 1962, Page 13

21st September 1962

Page 13

Page 13, 21st September 1962 — Coach for U.S. Tour , LAIMED to be the first complete

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' British touring coach to visit America, Plaxton-bodied Bedford VAS leaves mdon Docks on Tuesday for a sixmk, 10,000-mile tour of the U.S.A. promote European tours in British aches.

The luxuriously appointed coach. has reclining seats with individual lighting, tape recorder and a cocktail bar across e rear of the saloon. Sharing the wheel th an American driver will be Mr.

• C. Pollard, who won the coach-driver the year award in the British Coach ally last May.. I.T. Coach Operators, .d., and World Wide Coaches are otnotine the tour.

Midland Red Motorway Application ""1-11: West Midland Traffic Corn. miaiioners were told this Week at ,rmingham that over 500 people had aned leaflets in support of an applicaan by the Birmingham and Midland fotor Omnibus Co., Ltd., to increase eir number of motorway express taches between Coventry and London. The company was applying to increase .a coaches from four to six at weekdo on the Coventry to London stretch. he application also included one more mob on weekdays during the ,summer ..riod and two more at special holiday :Hods, British Railways were objecting. The case was continued on Wednesday.

N.R.T.F. on Road Rule k SPECIAL joint meeting of the

vehicles and highways committees of te National Road Transport Federation

to be convened to discuss the roblems involved in changing from lefland to right-hand rule of the jroad in us country. The Minister of Transport as asked all bodies for estimates I the cost of such a change, and .hether this should take place in five. 3 or 15 years' time. When the subject tine up at the normal committee meetigs on Tuesday, discussion was so vdy that it was decided that a special lint session devoted to this one topic 'aukl he necessary.

On Tuesday Mr. J. T. Turner was :adected chairman of the vehicles corntittce and Mr. H. B. Phillips was made ice-chairman. It was revealed that the .S1. committee to draw up a British tandard for "road vehicle diesel engines ill have its first meeting on October 3. At ilia highways committee meeting. fr. G. F. Pollard was re-elected chairtan.