A COACH WITH A SOCIAL COMPARTMENT.
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ALTHOUGH most of those people who travel by motor coach do so in order to enjoy the scenery and beauties of the district surrounding the place of destination, there are others who have no perception of the recreation which is afforded by such rambles. The ordinary coach body supplies the needs of the former, and enables a journey to be 'made-in comfort, but, in order to try to minister to the wants of the latter class, bodybuilders are paying increasing attention to the need for incorporating in the design of some of their bodies some feature which will appeal to this class of tourist. To these people, pleasure is afforded by the pursuit of their aecustouted joys in a novel surrounding.
The illustration which we publish on this page shows what has been done on a body fitted to an A.E.G. motor coach in order to enable the " stay-at-home " tourist to pass the time away while the more enterprising passengers seek out for themselves the old-world corners of the places visited. It Will be noticed that between the third and fourth rows of seats of the body there is fitted a circular table which is constructed of mahogany. This provision on a vehicle may be fittingly called a social compartment. The compartment is rectangular in shape, and three of its sides have well upholstered back rests and deep-sprung cushions on the seats. In the design of
this body no door is allowed for in the* rearmost compartment, and in order , to permit passengers to pass through the social compartment and thence to the side door, another door is previded in the division between the two cempartments. The absence of side doors to the rear compartment serves materially to strengthen the body construction, and thus there is a great deal to be said for it, -but it would be idle to deny that the method is entirely free from objectioh. Some passenger ot other must always be inconveniencedby the traffic to and from the rear compartment, but it is difficult to suggest a better arrangement than the one shown in the illustration reproduced herewith.