SUMMER TOURS IN CENTRAL EUROPE
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A Comprehensive Schedule Including the Best Scenery and the Most Interesting Towns
OPERATORS frequently ask us N./what their contemporaries in foreign countries are doing. Realizing the remarkable choice of routes which is available to proprietors of motor coaches on the Continent, they are interested to know whether there is anything to be learned from the methods of German and other operators.
We published a short time ago details of several tours for which arrangements are made from this end by a well-known travel agency, namely, Dean and Dawson, Ltd., of London. We have since received some interesting details from a prominent Rhineland company, Autobus G.m.b.H., which has its head office at 19, tinter Fetteuhennen, Cologne. This company has built up quite a remarkable business, especially in the past year or two, and, by employing fully up-to-date and powerful vehicles, is able to include in ite schedules some very fine stretches of route which afford great pleasure to the tourist, but which demand first-class chassis and bodywork because of the severity of the gradients, hairpin corners, etc.
The Autobus concern employs largely Krupp normal-control coaches, having very strong all-weather bodywork with narrow window pillars. The bodies are built as low as possible, but the wheelarch difficulty is overcome by raising all the seats at the rear end of the coach,
an arrangement which inaLroves the view obtained from the rear positions. The accompanying map of the company's three, most popular routes gives an excellent idea of the wide scope of the company's operation and of 'the physical difficulties that are encountered in a section of one of the two-weeks' tours, extending from Munich through Hohenschwangan and Constance to Freiburg.
Needless to say, the company has agents in all important centres outside
Germany and these. tours can, for example, be arranged in London through travel agencies at inclusive fares in English money. A holiday of eight days, including all expenses from London back to London, and embodying six days of motor coaching through the• Rhineland, can be arranged for about £17.
The route for.this six-day motor tour includes a whole day in Cologne, three days' travelling thence through Coblence and Frankfort to Heidelberg, a
day of motoring northward to Mayence and Wiesbaden, and a Rhine steamer trip from Rudesheim to Boppard. '
The two-weeks' tour of the Rhineland, Bavarian Alps and Black Forest (including Switzerland if required), includes fascinating old towns like Frankfort and Nuremberg, and is probably the most enjoyable of all the tours arranged by the Autobus company.
The company's 15-day tour through the best part of Germany and Czechoslovakia covers a very wide stretch of territory, limited by Cologne in the west and Prague in the east, including Berlin and extending M Hamburg.