Festival Coach Parking Plans
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ARRANGEMENTS have been proposed to facilitate the parking of coaches during the Festival of Britain next year. Negotiations have been taking place between the Passenger Vehicle Operators' Association and the
Metropolitan Police. At present it is proposed to .require all coaches entering London from the north and west to park in Regent's Park, where there will be room for 500 coaches. Vehicles coming from the south and east will have to park in reserved areas near Clapham Common and Clapham South underground stations.
It appears that a ring arrangement of roads will be specified as routes for coaches entering London during the Festival. The actual Festival site, bounded by Lambeth Bridge and Lambeth Road, Whitehall and the Strand; Fleet Street and Blackfriars Road, will be completely closed to all coach traffic. Passengers will be expected to travel by underground from the coach parks to Waterloo.
The P.V.O.A. is negotiating for a suitable park for coach passengers who wish to visit the Concert Hall only.
MEADOWS "PANCAKE" ENGINE FOR SHOW
IN addition to the existing range of 'power units made by Henry Meadows, Ltd., Wolverhampton, there will be a flat underfloor engine on the company's stand at Earls Court. This unit, termed the 6.HDC.630, is a horizontal version of the 10.35-litre vertical engine.
It has many parts common to the 6.DC.630 vertical unit and the "square" bare and stroke of 130 inn arc retained. Also shown on the Meadows stand will be the 6.DCS.970 15.9-litre turbo-supercharged oil engine, which develops 260 b.h.p. at .1,650 r.p.m.