New Insurances for Coach Owners
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TWO important new insurance arrangements have been concluded
by the Passenger Vehicle Operators Association. One covers baggage and personal insurance and the other is concerned with Continental touring coaches.
For a payment ranging from 7s. 6d. for eight days to LI Is. for a month, passengers can obtain cover to the extent of £100 for loss or damage to baggage and personal effects, and other benefits in cases of personal accident, including £500 in the event of death. Cover includes the whole of the period of the holiday or tour.
The cover for coaches used on Continental tours is comprehensive and includes unlimited indemnity for liability to passengers and -personal accident benefits for the driver and courier travelling on the coach on the Continent. Rates are competitive.
The policy is based on a deposit premium and each trip must be declared. The premium depends on the length of time spent on the Continent. These benefits apply in France, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Germany (excepting the Soviet Zone).
A separate policy can be arranged to indemnify operators for the cost of Iiiring a coach, and hotel expenses and/or return fares for passengers if a coach be unable to complete the tour on the Continent.
Further details can be obtained from 146, New Bond Street, London, W.1.
HULL LOSES f-21,123
AN increase in fares on Hull's municipal transport system was suggested at a meeting of the passenger transport committee, when accounts were presented showing a deficit of £21,123 during the year ended March 31 last.
Mr. C. H. Pulfrey, general manager. said that the undertaking's fares basis was still that laid down by one of the corporation's earliest Acts of Parliament—Id. per mile. Increases in expenditure must be met by an increase in receipts. The only solution as to charge a more remunerative fare.
A loss of £26,456 was made on the motorbuses, but a surplus of £5,333 on the trolleybuses. Revenue totalled £737.334, and expenditure £758,457.
To East Yorkshire Motor Services, Ltd., £19,017 was paid under an agreement in respect of co-ordinated services.
MILK IN TANKERS STRAIGHT FROM ULSTER •
BECAUSE of the drought in England, milk is being brought in road tankers from Northern Ireland by way of the Continental Line transport ferry service. The first shipment of 3,000 gallons of milk for distribution in England arrived at Preston at 3 p.m. on July 14. This is the first occasion on which milk from Northern Ireland to England has been delivered by means of road tankers.
(The story of the Preston-Larne ferry is published on pages 656-659 of this issue.) A30