SCARBOROUGH DRIVES AWAY COACHES
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" THE sooner we get it out Of our heads that coach trippers all wear flat caps and live on beer and fish and chips, the sooner we shall stop antagonizing a large section of potential customers. Coach parties have as much right to come to the centre of the town as have railway passengers and private motorists."
This was stated by Cll. R. P. Robinson, re-elected mayor of Scarborough, last week. He wanted the town to have a proper coach park. There was ample proof that the resort was unpopular with operators.
We refuse to allow them within miles of the sea front even at times when it is almost deserted," he said.
COACH SPEED LIMIT ATTACKED
WHEN the tourist industry was discussed in the House of Commons last week, Mr. Nigel Nicolson (Cons., Bournemouth East) attacked the 30-m.p.h. limit for coaches. He thought that the speed limit should apply to the type of road rather than vehicle.
Mr. F. J. Erroll, for the Board of Trade, replied that many road improvements at the approaches to popular resorts enabled coaches to complete their journeys more rapidly.