Transglobe Seeks Home Licence

26th September 1952, Page 74

26th September 1952

Page 74

Page 74, 26th September 1952 — Transglobe Seeks Home Licence

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ALICENCE to run coaches from Birmingham to Dover between April and November was applied for by Transglobe, Ltd., last week. Mr. Julius Silverman told the West Midland Licensing Authority that new French regulations required operators running tours in France to have road service licences in their own country if they wanted to garage their vehicles in Prance. There was no suggestion of Opening a new service: the application was simply to continue existing businets.

Mr. J. Schutz,. managing directo'r, said that passengers for French tours were at present carried to London by rail, where they spent the night and crossed on the boat train the next morning. Coaches picked them up on arrival .in France. Hehad obtained permission to garage his coaches in France this year, but this was through an act of grace and he did not know what the position would be in 1953.

The Railway Executive objected. Decision was reserved.

U.S. AND DUTCH DRIVERS CHANGE JOBS

T° prove that it is possible to transplant a man into an entirely different environment and yet allow him to carry out his work as successfully as at home, two bus drivers, one from Arnersfo-ort, Holland, and the other from New York, have exchanged jobs for four weeks. Both will be paid the wages obtaining in the cities to which they have been sent.

The Dutch driver was chosen by the manager of the Amersfoort City Motor Coach Service and four other persons. The New York.driver, employed by (he Trans Avenue Corporation in the Bronx district, was selected from .3,200 candidates.

EDINBURGH MAY END TRAMS

ADECISION to replace the trams by motorbuses was made last weekby Edinburgh Civic Amenities Committee. Conversion will take three years if the corporation approves the proposal. Edinburgh's trams have lost £480,000 in the past five years.

The committee considered that trolleybuses would be unsuitable for the centre of the city, and that one system of transport could be more economically and efficiently run than two.

. COSMIC COMBINATION

PATENTS and resources have been combined by Weathershields, Ltd., Birmingham, and Cosmic Car Acce.s: -caries, Ltd., Walsall, for the joint manufacture and marketing of the Cosmic heater and demister. This is a simple unit that makes no use of electric current or .radiator coolant and is easy to fit.

Weathershields, Ltd., will be responsible for the'sales and distribution of the product, which costs £4 5s. retail.