LONDON TO GLASGOW IN TWO STAGES.
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The Complete Scheme to Come into Operation in the Spring.
ANEW service has been planned which will probably start about the middle of the present month to connect London and Glasgow by motor coach. The first vehicle is ready and the others are expected to be delivered within the next few days.
The service is being promoted by Messrs. J. It. Tognarelli and Co., Manchester Road, Bolton, and it will run daily from Russell Square, London, leaving at about 9 o'clock in the morning, to Poets' Corner, Manchester, arriving there at about 6 p.m., only two stops being made en routes these being for lunch and tea. From Manchester the coach will proceed to Bolton, Carlisle and Glasgow, arriving in the latter city, about 6 o'clock on the following morning, with two stops between Bolton and Glasgow for the purpose of obtaining refreshment. The return journey has .a similar time-table, Glasgow being left at 9 o'clock in the morning and London being reached at 6 o'clock the next 'morning.
For the time being, however, only the service between Bolton and London will be run, as it is thought unlikely that there will be.sufficient demand during the autumn and winter to justify continuing the service from 13olton on to Carlisle and Glasgow, but early in the spring of next year the full service will no doubt be brought into operation.
The fares are :---London to Glasgow, 35s. single, 60s. return; London to Manchester or Bolton, 17s. 6d. single, 30s. return ; Manchester or Bolton to Glasgow, 20s. single, 35s. return.
For the service the Leyland sixcylinder Tiger chassis has been chosen, with a 26-seater body by Burlingham, of Blackpool. The seats, as will be seen from our illustrations, are of a comfortable type, allowing passengers to sleep in a reclining position. There is ample accommodation for luggage.
There would, of course, be a change of driver at Bolton, and it will be of great interest when the full London-Glasgow service is in operation to abserve whether passengers cover the whole journey without a prolonged break at Manchester or elsewhere, for a 21-hour journey seems too long.
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