The Comfort of the Modern Coach.
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IN some sections of the daily Press considerable adverse criticism of the modern motor coach has been appearing lately. At first reading it strikes one as being not only unjustifiable, but damaging; on second thoughts, however, one realizes that, whilst it may be unjustifiable, it cannot be really damaging. Every new idea must face the billows of adverse and destructive criticism. Every. Government that is sent to Parliament must do its duty in the face of an ungenerous opposition. The man in the street forms his own opinion.
• So, when we see it stated as if it were an indisputable fact that the seating accommodation and legroom on the modern motor coach are not to be compared with the superior arrangements of the ordinary railway train, we do not think that the public is likely to believe it. Indeed, the coach is not to be compared with the railway train in this respect, being far and away superior. Similarly, when we are told that in a motor coach one cannot reach one' hat without elbowing one's immediate' neighbours off their seats, we knew from experience that there is no ground whatever for this charge against the motor-coach designer.
Another statement which we have read recently is that one cannot see the countryside to advantage when travelling by motor, whereas from a train one gets a good view of all the scenery on either side. This, surely, is untrue; the windows of the motor coach are large, the pillars separating them being quite narrow. Many modern vehicles have all-weather heads of various kinds, making it possible for the passengers not only to enjoy the wooded slopes of hillsides which their route may be skirting, but also to have the refreshing air and sunshine of an English summer's day.