A TOUR TO FRANCE FROM NEWCASTLE.
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The North of England is shortly to have its first experience of motor tours to overseas destinations, when the County General Omnibus Co., Ltd., of Birtley, near Newcastle, a company formed by a number of small undertakings, -01 run an eight-day tour to the battlefields of France and to Paris. The company will two for this tour a new 20-seater Reo-Pullman saloon which has just been purchased and is specially built for long-distance touring work. So that passengers can take a reasonable quantity of luggage to cover the period of the tour, a motor van will accompany the vehicle throughout and will collect all luggage a day before the date of departure, which will be made from Newcastle on August 28th. The fare for the tour, inclusive of boat fare and firstclass hotel accommodation, is 1.17 17s., and the total mileage will be in the vicinity of 1,40(1.
The route through England will be via Darlington, Doncaster, Grantham, Gravesend, Chatham and Canterbury to Dover. This will be covered on the first day, and on the following morning the battlefields tout will begin, after the crossing to Calais has been accom plished. The tour will embrace such famed places as St. Omer, Poperinghe, Kemmel, Loos, Lens, Anion, Vimy Ridge, Arras,. Albert, Arelui Wood, Pozziers, Thiepval, Beaumont Hamel, l3apanme, Canabrai and Havrincourt, to mention but a few of the towns to be visited, in addition, special arrangements will he made, upon request, for passengers who desire to visit any British cemetery in the war zone. A director of the company, who has had considerable war experience, will accompany the tour and act as guide to the party.