GLASGOW TO ROME BY COACH
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ACOACH trip from Glasgow to Rome, covering approximately 2,500 miles, is being planned by a number of young Italian residents in Scotland. It is probable that ttlk party will set out towards the end of this month.
The proposed itinerary takes in several other European countries, as well as Italy. The coach will go from Glasgow to Dover, cross to Calais by ferry, and then proceed to Paris, where the party will visit the Exhibition. The journey will thereafter be resumed through France to Italy, via the Riviera.
. Proceeding down the Mediterranean coast of Italy to Rome, the turning point will be reached at a village some miles to the south of the Italian capital. The coach will then make for the Adriatic coast and on to Venice, before crossing the Bremner Pass into Austria. If time permits, Vienna will also be visited, the remainder of the trip across Europe being completed via Germany.
BUS DRIVERS DO VILLAGERS' SHOPPING!
SIDELIGHTS on the varied utility of country bus services were afforded last week, when the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., applied to the West Midland Traffic Commissioners for permission to take over the ;stage service from ',Acton
Beauchamp to Worcester, previously operated by Messrs. H. F. Taylor.
Objections were lodged by residents of several villages, who, it appears, feared that when the Midland " Red " took over, the facilities for the transport of parcels and other goods, which they had previously enjoyed, would be withdrawn. Mr. R. Britzius, for the Birmingham and Midland concern, said that the villagers had been in the habit
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of asking the bus drivers to do their shopping in Worcester.
After Mr. Britzius had pointed out that the company was prepared to carry parcels (but barred calves and bullocks I), Colonel A. S. Redman, chairman of the Commissioners, announced that the application would be granted.
BUS GARAGE WITH FLATS.
wioRx has recently been commenced VII by the Berliner Verkehrs Gesellschaft on the erection of another large bus garage at Zehlendorf, capable of accommodating 160 vehicles. On the same site a large block of flats, with accommodation for 480 of the
employees and their families, is also being constructed.
T.G.W.U. HEARS APPEALS.
T AST week, the appeals committee of
the Transport and General Workers Union began to hear appeals by the seven members of the busmen's section against whom disciplinary action was taken on the ground that they were connected with subversive movements.