Across Atlantic to Join British Coach
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r-t A CONTRACT for 56-day tours of Western Europe carrying American and Canadian passengers has been secured by J. Green and Sons, Ltd.. Brierley Hill. Each tour will cover 5,500 miles, and among the countries visited will be France, Spain, Italy,
Yugoslavia, Austria, Switzerland. Germany, Belgium and Holland.
The first one will start on July 10. when 37 passengers will join the coach at Southartipton after crossing the Atlantic. A special coach will be used. Fitted with air conditioning, self-adjusting Pullman seats, radio, an observation roof and inter-communication.
Stan and Joe Green, who run the company, met a representative of American and Canadian agencies in Paris seven years ago and he instigated the first inquiry, which has led to the contract being placed. The brothers are also concerned in coal deliveries, besides running a garage and filling station at Brierley Hill.
£23m. TO MODERNIZE GREAT NORTH ROAD
MEARLY £23m. is to be spent in the next 12 months on a number of schemes designed to modernize the Great North Road. About 100 miles of its length will be tackled in 1959-60. In all. some 220 miles between London and Newcastle will be rebuilt to modern standards.
Several of the towns and villages on Al are to be by-passed. A major scheme concerns Doncaster. which will be bypassed by a road to the west. This will be 15 miles long and will eventually be linked with the London-Yorkshire motorway. The work calls for the construction of 26 bridges, including a six-span bridge over the River Don.
Shorter by passes will skirt Biggleswade, Stamford, Stevenage and Grantham. Farther north, work is proceeding on the Catterick by-pass.
WALLACE ARNOLD PURCHASE
THE coach concern of J. W. Kitchen and Sons. Pudsey, near Leeds, has been acquired by Wallace Arnold Tours. Ltd., bringing the total number of concerns controlled by the Barr and Wallace Arnold Trust to 18.
Kitchen's have a fleet of 12 coaches operating excursions and tours and express services. Mr. Edward Kitchen will continue to be associated with the organization.
T.R.T.A. ELECTIONS
THE following elections have been made by three areas of the Traders' Road Transport Association:— Birmingham: Chairman, Mr. W. A. Standley: vice-chairmen, Mr. I. C. H. Aston, Mr. I. A. Edmonds and Mr. G. Morgan: honorary secretary. Mr. F. Assinder.
Poixeries: Chairman. Mr. R. B. Williams: vicechairmen, Mr. A. E. Booth. Mr. L. Buckley and Mr. It. J. H. Nurser; honorary secretary. Mr. H. Harvey. Coventry: Chairman, Mr. J. Delicate: vicechairmen, Mr. H. A. Beard, Mr. 3, EL Holbrook and Mr. G. W. Mouslev: honorary secretary, Mr. F. Moore