First British Coaches Off to Moscow
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TWO A.E.C. Reliance coaches will set out, one on Sunday and the other on Monday, on a 20-day tour to Moscow. The vehicles are owned by Excelsior European Motorways, of Bournemouth, whose general manager, Mr. Vernon Maitland, will be a codriver with Mr. Bruce Ells, of the A.C.V. Group. They will be the first coaches to travel to Moscow since well before the war. The tour costs £94 10s. and goes by way of Ostend, Brussels, Hanover, Berlin. Poznan, Warsaw, Minsk and Smolensk to Moscow, where six days will be spent. On the return journey there will be night stops at Minsk, Warsaw, Breslau, Prague, Frankfurt, Brussels and Ostend. The round trip extends to about 4,000 miles.
END, OF HASTINGS TRAMWAYS L'IFTY-SEVEN years after its forma
lion and 52 years after its first tram services were started. Hastings Tramways Co. will cease officially to exist at midnight next Monday. It will then be merged with Maidstone and District Motor Services, Ltd., but the four trolleybus services operating on 22 miles of route will continue unchanged. Trolleybuses replaced the trams in 1928. The company became a wholly owned subsidiary of Maidstone and District in 1935. Final details of the new motorbuses required to replace the trolleybuses are now being settled, and an order will be placed sh-ortly.
EAST KENT TO APPLY FOR INCREASES
A LL single fares on services operated r% by the East Kent Road Car Co., Ltd., will he raised if the company's latest application to the Traffic .Commissioners is successful. They propose to keep return fares, where they are at present available,. "at not more than H times the proposed relevant single fare." Employees' privilege tickets would also be affected. The present 10. minimum would be increased to 2d. This is East Kent's ninth fare application since . the war. and most of theprevious ones have met strong opposition from corn-, bitted local authorities. [Detailed fare decisions,---pages 242-2431
INSTRUCTION FOR ARGENTINA
PAA MOBILE service school, consistingof a Dodge long-wheelbase 3-tanner with a Perkins P4 oil engine and a special body built by Hampshire Car Bodies, Ltd., Totton, Southampton, is being sent on a six-month visit to Argentina by F. Perkins, Ltd. Mr. A. E. Timmins, who was born in Argentina and speaks fluent Spanish, will . be in charge of the school. A country-wide instructional tour has been arranged. It is estimated that 6,000 Perkins oil engines are now operated in Argentina, many in vehicles, apart from 1,000 fitted as original equipment in combine harvesters,