GOOD RESULTS FROM JOINT WORKING.
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Well-established Coaching Concerns Give Improved Facilities on Their Services Radiating frcm London.
MITIE watch committee of the Lowes
toft Corporation has granted licences to Keith and Boyle (London), Ltd. (the proprietor of Orange Luxury Coaches), in respect of two vehicles which are to be employed to augment the Service run by that Company between London and Great Yarmouth. The coach services which this company is operating in conjunction with A.
Timpson and Sons, Ltd., 175, Bushey Green, London, SEA have proved very popular during the opening months of the present season. One of the reasons for this is that, as a result of the joint working arrangement, the companies are able to give to the public the benefits of far stronger resources.
Both these well-known concerns are catering for three classes of business—
namely, private hire and sight-seeing in London, definite services between „London and seaside towns (some of them three or four times daily) and special direct and circuitous services for the summer holiday traffic. Coaches leave daily for all the important csoa.stal resorts in East Anglia so far north as Yarmouth, and in the South of England BO far west as Torquay. These direct services run from various main centres in London and passengers can be picked up in the morning and set down on their return by the evening coaches at some 30 points in the Metropolis.
Another advantage of the joint working arrangementis that the two MDcents, having their own subsidiary companies established at seaside towns,
and having secured local licences, are able to look after their passengers during their holidays in the matter of coaching trips. Good facilities for pleasure runs in the neighbourhood of each of the coastal termini are afforded, including, for example, a de-. duction of .10 per cent, on the fares to passengers producing London return tickets purchased at either Orange or Timpson booking offices.
Between them the two companies own over 200 coaches, all of them being of a modern type. They have undertaken considerable research work in the selection of suitable chassis and bodies,-a recent interesting experiment taking the form of a plywood-panelled. body covered with fabric. Several 'coach bodies of this type, constructed by the loyal Body Corporation, Ltd., upon A.E.C. Reliance chassis, have cOvered a considerable mileage and appear to be standing up satisfactorily , under service conditions. An illustration of one of these coaches is reproduced at the 'top of the previous page..