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U.S. Coach Services Will Double Revenue
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DY 1966, American long-distance roach services will double . their revenue, Mr. Arthur S. Genet, president of the Greyhound Corporation, has stated. In the same ,decade, he said, railways will have abandoned carrying passengers, and there will he 100,000 communities,*instead of the present 40,000, entirely dependent upon buses for public transport.
American bus operators already -carry 9m. more passengers each year than the railways.
The Greyhound concern have opened a new bus terminal in Philadelphia. It is estimated that l+m. passengers will use it each year.
Plans are in hand to build further new terminals irk Pittsburgh, Milwaukee and Detroit. One is nearing completion at Richmond, Virginia.
CUTTING LOADING DELAYS TO reduce contamination and loading delays, Manchester Oil Refinery. Ltd., have introduced a Scammell I7-ton prime Mover and two 3,800-gal. tank semi-trailers. The semi-trailers have parallel-link tandem-wheel and axle gear, and the tanks each have three compartments. Each compartment is used exclusively for one grade of oil, so that cleansing requirements arc lessened, and the incidence of one kind of oil being contaminated by another is avoided.
WHY FEWER PASSENGERS TRADESMEN'S delivery facilities to customers are Cited, together with the effects of higher fares andthe attraction of television, by Mr: W. Astin, general manager of Exeter Transport Department, to explain why the 'undertaking carried 2m. fewer pasSengers Last year than two years lpreviouSly, There was a £5,492 surphis at the end of the last financial -year. This sum was put to reserves.
CONFERENCE ON ROAD NEEDS
DELEGATES from about 1,300 localauthorities-will attend a conference • on the Country's highway 'requirements, to be held, at the Institution of Civil Engineers,' Great George Street, London,
from November 13715.
It is intended that civil engineers engaged on -road design, construction and research should produce their own plan for solving the country's traffic
problem.
£100m. FROM TOURISTS IF transport and accommodation facilities could be improved, Scotland could double her .'earnings from the tourist trade within 10 years. Last year, tourists spent £50m. in Scotland, the British Travel and Holidays Association said on Tuesday. In 1956, Scotland had 380,000 overseas visitors and more than Im. from other parts of Britain. Edinburgh received half the holiday traffic.