Bullet-riddled Vehicle Poses Problem
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THREE applications to run bus services between Nottingham and Singapore and Nottingham and Capetown were adjourned at Nottingham after the East Mfdland Licensing Authority, Mr. C. R. Hodgson, had asked for "more definite '• information.
Mr. Keith Cox, of Noel St., Nottingham, asked for permission to run two services—one via Tilbury, and another via Dover, to Calcutta, India and Singapore: and a third service to Gibraltar, Durban and Capetown.
Mr. Cox explained that he did not own any buses, but he was sure he could hire one if the applications were granted. Mr. Neville Lander, a Rainworth (Notts) coach operator said he was prepared to hire a coach to Mr. Cox and drive it himself if he received a surety of £3,000.
Another large coach firm, it was said. had offered Mr. Cox the use of a demonstration vehicle if the applications were allowed.
The Rhodesian Broadcasting Corporation, it was claimed, were interested in Mr. Cox's scheme, but the commissioner read part of a letter addressed to Mr. Cox by the Corporation. This warned that a coach had arrived in Salisbury riddled with bullets from marauding Abyssinian bandits.
The commissioner observed: " We are not only concerned with the travelling public of this country, but of half Africa and India as well.
After the inquiry Mr. Cox said: " I am determined to carry the idea through."