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YV committees of similar bus undertakings and plans are being fotmailated for co-ordinated action." This significant paragraph is contained in a statement issued, • on Wednesday, following a meeting of the staff executive committee of the United Counties Omnibus Co., Ltd.
The committee stated that it had met to decide on policy for the immediate future. A mass meeting of men at Wellingborough will be held to-Morrow (Saturday), at midnight, whilst a series of meetings in Northamptonshire will also be held to inform the public of the position.
It is pointed out, in some quarters. that the efforts made by the men, during the strike, in January, to claim support from employees of other bus companies, met with little success.
CROYDON DINNER FIXED.
r-IN March 16 Croydon and District %a/Motor Coach Owners Association is holding its fourth annual dinner at the Greyhound .Restaurant, Croydon. Tickets, price 10s. 6c1., can be obtained from the honorary secretary, Mr. S. D. Oddy, Speedway House, St. Nicholas Road, Sutton, Surrey.
FILM PUBLICITY FOR TOURS.
advertise its coach-travel facili ties, Wallace Arnold Tours, Ltd., Leeds, is having a cinematograph film made. Mr. Robert Barr, bead of the concern, informed a correspondent, this week, that the film will be shown in 26 cinemas within a radius of 10 miles of Leeds.
The company has applied to the Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner for licences to run tours from London to Scotland, the English Lakes and the Yorkshire Dales. If the application be granted, London passengers will no longer have to travel by other means to Leeds in order to join the tours.
Mr. Barr said: " We have on our books in London over 1,000 regular clients, and the number is increasing year by year. We are also greatly increasing our programme of tours.. This year it is almost trebled in size."
RAPID PROGRESS IN REPLACING PARIS TRAMS.
REPLACEMENT of trams by bus services is proceeding rapidly :in Paris, and it is hoped that by the end of this year, or, in any case, before the great Exhibition opens in 1937, the last electric tramcar will have clanked and squeaked its way out of the city. This process of elimination has been going on steadily for the past eight years or more, during which time 100 tram services have been eliminated.
Since 1933, however, there has been marked progress, and Paris itself is already almost free from trams. A few rather long-distance suburban lines may continue to run for the next 18 months, but arrangements are already in hand for replacing them.