WIRRAL COACHOWNERS' PLANS.
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Brief Details of the Intentions of Several Prominent Owners for the Forthcoming Season.
1. N THE past, conditions on the Wirral side of the River Mersey have been largely governed by what takes place at Liverpool. Whether this will be the case this year remains to be seen.
Developments at Birkenhead with regard to small coaches are in suspense, and owners prefer to talk of business rather than 'of the purchase of new vehicles.
Mr. Alfred Harding, of Charing Cross, Birkenheadovho has a mixed fleet of 28 and 33-seaters, Leylands, Daimlers, and A.E.C.s, and an 18-seater Garford, opened the season by sending his fleet of coaches to the Aintree Racecourse for the Grand National.
Then will come the Easter Holidays, for which there will be the usual attractive list of day tours. The Birkenhead coac.howners run one very popular outinga circular tour of the Wirral, a journey of 44 miles, for which a fare of 6s. is charged.
Messrs. W. B. Horn, Ltd., who have a fleet of Straker-Squire 33-seaters and an 18-seater on pneumatics, intend to run a daily service from Birkenhead to Llangollen., and, of course, their regular Weekly run to Llandegla Moors will be continued. They also have in mind repeating the patrons' tours which they inaugurated last year. Popular picnics will be a feature of tit's year's programme.
141eases. C. F. Rymer, Ltd.', of Wallasey, also intend running a daily service to, their hotel at Llangollen and weekend tom-s th their hotel at Grasmere, in the Lake pistriet. The Continental battlefields interview will also be resumed. In an with a, Commercial Motor. representative, Mr: Rymer expressed theropinion that cheap railway fares-for it is rumoured that there will be excursions at the cost of a single journey-would inevitably mean that passengers bent on "getting somewhere" would be attracted 4o the rail
ways. Messrs. Rymer do not intend to put any new coaches in service, and will carry out their programme with their existing fleet of 14 and. 28-seaters -Vulcans, Daimlers, and Tilling
Stevens. the 14-20-seater coach can be operated to yield as good a return as the larger vehicle, then the smaller coach will come into its own," stated the subject of our interview.
Anticipating the move on the part of the railway companies in the matter of an abundance of cheap railway fares, Messrs. Rymer are in course of negotiation with the railway companies for combined rail-coach tours for long journeys. The plan, as it has been conceived, is that the passenger travelling first by rail and then by coach should reach his destination in time for luncheon, have the afternoon at his disposal, and return after tea by motor coach and railway. They also hope to arrange combined sea and motor coach trips.
The Wallasey Corporation has issued regulations regarding the use made by motor coaches of the New Brighton promenade, and have allocated three stands for two coaches each. Messrs. Rymer have rentedfrom the' corporation two bl &Ikea on the New Brighten promenade, which they intend to use for left luggage and as a booking agency.
'Coaching is becoming more and more a matter of preference and not of price,". says Mr. Rymer, who speaks of the prospects as being bright,
Coaching from a Dorsetshire Coastal Resort.
WEYMOUTH is an extremely popular centre for motor coaching, and one of the principal companies running from this 11Dorsetshire resort is the Weymouth Motor 'Co., Ltd., Edward Street, Weymouth, who own a fleet of nine chars-à-bancs. The bodies of these vehicles are 22-seaters of the conventional type, with rows each seating four passengers and the bodies are carried on Daimher Chassis.
The company are believers in the medium-capacity vehicle, and their opinion is that. the only advantage of a small-capacity coach i's to be found in its facility for negotiating narrow roads and • congested traffic. So far as fares are concerned, they point out that the best -way to stabilify ; rates is to fix them at is reasona.bln level at the commencement of the season, and to adhere to those charges throughout , the year. An association of motor coach proprietors, they point out, should be able to exert its influence in the prevention of fare-cutting.
No now vehicles are to be put into service by this company for the forthcoming season.
13arnsley Watch Committee has adopted a scheme of controlling motorbus traffic, which is now so dense that no further bus services can bepermitted.to enter the centre of the town, The scheme provides special stopping-places for all buses, which will run to a tirne-tab!e