U.S. Agents Sound Coaching Facilities.
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A'part of the campaign to attract American tourists to this country, 45 travel agents and sports writers were guests of the Travel Association last week. They were shown the various attractions of Britain, so as to be able to give first-hand information about them to their customers..
A tour of London was made in a coach provided by Charles Rickards, Ltd., and the agents were entertained at Victoria Coach Station. Mr. F. W. J. Robinson, general manager, outlined the organization of the station to them and the agents were informed of the facilities for coach travel. They intimated their desire to contact British companies directly and independently, instead of through intermediate concerns.
Frames Tours, Ltd., provided a coach for a tour to Oxford, and other excursions were made in vehicles lent by Sheffield United Motor Services, Ltd., the Scottish Motor Traction Co., Ltd., and Ribble Motor Services, Ltd.
• R.V.—CHELTENHAM XECUTIVES of operating companies and booking agents from a wide area of England travelled to Cheltenham last Friday to attend the annual ball of Black and White Motorways. Ltd It is an event to which many people in the coaching industry look forward, and this year's function was one of the most successful ever held.
0.P.P.A. CONSIDERS NEXT STEP
AT a recent meeting at Whitley Bay, representatives of the Newcastle. South Shields, Sunderland and Whitley Bay committees of the Omnibus Passengers rprotection Association considered ways of implementing their campaigns against the northern area scheme.
Bitter opposition from municipal authorities. pr iva te operators and the travelling publi c. as represented by the Association, would be forthcoming if the Minister of Transport were to introduce an area scheme. said Mr. R. Erskine Hill, organizing secretary of the Association.
The steadily rising cost of living was such. contended Mr. C. V. H. Vincent, chairman of the organization, that no section of the travelling public could afford higher fares. Recent events in London had demonstrated what would happen if t h e State took over bus services. '
Local committees 0f the 0.P.P.A. have recently been formed at Bedford, Luton and Peterborough. Others will shortly be formed at Letchworth, Hitchin, Baldock and possibly Stevenage. The Central England branch
of the Association, formed last June, now has amembership of 6,600, of which 2,200 are from East Anglia.
COUNCIL TO SUPPORT COMPANY
FOLLOWING the lead of Newcastleon-Tyne City Council, Gateshead Corporation has withdrawn its opposition to the Bill promoted by Gateshead and District Tramways Co., Ltd., to allow the company to replace trams by motorbuses, and to rescind the consent given in 1938 to run trolleybuses.
The Gateshead company has given an undertaking that the change-over to buses will be completed within two years and work will begin as soon as possible. It has already started running buses to Heworth and Wrekenton.
The corporation has agreed to support the company in its applications for licences. • LEYLAND BODY WORKS REORGANIZED
T0 provide greater floor space for the• production of metal-framed double-decked bus bodies, the body works of Leyland Motors, Ltd.. is being reorganized. These bodies are being made at the rare of 20 a week. Some 8-ft.-wide models are being built for London Transport. Orders for 269 bodies of different types have also come from Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., and
• Wigan, Newcastle, Manchester, Leeds and Sheffield Corporations.
EXIDE AGENTS RECHARGED
T0 keep its agents informed of developments. Chloride Batteries, Ltd., recently held three conferences in London for its south-eastern agents. Representatives of over 100 Exide service agents attended. Mr. C. M. Stickling, technical service 'representative, addressed the final conference which took place last week.
Yesterday, no-waiting orders came into force in parts of Penn Road and Station Road. Beaconsfield.