A PIONEER OWNER ON COACHING PROSPECTS.
Page 69
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
Mr. C. F. Rymer Expresses Certain Views on Phases of the
, Passenger-transport Industry.
'A, SPECIALIST in motor-coach touring who, years ago, successfully' predicted the lines upon which the industry would develop, is Mr. C. F. Rymer, of Liverpool, whose portrait is published on this page. In an interiew with a representative of The Commercial Motor we recollect the emphasis with which he declared that motor coaching would surely develop on lines that would bring it more in accord with The standards of private-car travel. lie put his convictions to the test by adopting. smaller and pneumatic-tyre& vehicles when these were the vogue and participating in all the vacillations of vehicle design, until now he has the satisfaction _of witnesiing the graduat metamorphosis of fleets conforming with the standards which he, as a pioneer,
visualized.
Mr. Rynier is a man who not onlY operates coaches, as a matter of business but has the habit of travelling by them. ne_holds the opinion that owaers should test the riding qualities of their vehicles by frequently ;making use of them and thus ahare the passengers' Point of view.
"There is not-nearly enough co-operaton and good feeling between the..operators of the principal long-distance coach services," 'says Mr. Rymer. " Owners should be able to learn from one another. If we were to pool our experiences I am confident that it would not only benefit ourselves but the public as well. It would be a good idea if the principal undertakings were to ar
range for an exchange of travel facilities, so that if any of the chiefs had a day to spare he could travel by another company's vehicles and see for himself how its services were operated. Coach travel will never achieve full recognition until its development is properly organized and until those who are responsible for the principal services decide upon a policy of co-ordination and co-operation.
"I believe there will be five Liverpool-London daily services this year, and I have backed my conviction by suggesting to those who have intimated their intention of entering this field that no harm—on the other hand, probably much good—would result from talking matters over.
"I have 14 new vehicles on order12 Leyland Tigers and two Gilfords. Two of the Leylands and the two Gilfords will be fitted with lavatories. Besides the vehicles now in service and those on order, my company also has to rely upon other coaches, which will be hired as circumstances warrant."
Arrangements life now being completed for four long-distance daily coach services as follow :—(1)Liverpool-London; (2) Liverpool-Bournemouth; (3): London-Edinburgh ; (4) London-Leeds. Mr. Rymer will also have an interest in a London-Bournemouth service. He does a considerable amount of foreign travel and recently returned from a visit to the IInited States, where he was successful in negotiating contracts for tours of England by Americans and Canadians who are visiting this country. During the past year many of these parties were carried in coaches booked from Rymer's, who will again handle this traffic during the forthcoming season.
-Mr. Rymer added that he had received a booking for 1930, and this would necessitate the provision of tram.port for 1,000 Canadians attending a congress to be held in England.
Ile is now paying a visit to Rugsia as a transport member of the AngloRussian Committee and will -have the opportunity for studying, at close range, the transport,. especially the passenger-carrying problems, of at least one great city. "I am looking forward to the isit to Moscow, where a big fleet of Leyland motorbuses is in commission," said Mr. Rymer.