CARLESS LIABI,LITY LIMITED
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FORMERLY carried on as a partnership, the business of Carless, Capel and Leonard has now been converted into a limited company bearing the same name. It has a capital of £450,000. Mr. Hugh H. Leonard, Mr. John C. Leonard and Mr. Julian M. Leonard, the former partners, Mr. A. W. Lawson and Lt.-Col. James C. Brown are directors.
' NEW CONTINENTAL TOURS
EIOR next season, James Smith and I Co. (Wigan), Ltd., has extended its Continental programme of fours. In addition to two regular departures to Switzerland every week, tours are to be undertaken to the Pyrenees, Paris and the Riviera.
Improvements to the coach bodies include the provision of full-width cabs, enabling the courier to sit in front with the driver in Continental fashion, and of radio sets with microphone attachments.
With the exception of six A.E.C. Regal Mark I vehicles, the fleet is made up entirely of Leyland PSI machines. The Leylands are employed exclusively on the Continental tours, and during last year they covered nearly 90,000 miles.
As many as 37 coaches will be in operation every week during the coming season, when the company expects to handle 30,000 passengers, compared with 21,000 last year.
BRADFORD FARES TO GO UP? DRADFORD'S finance estimates subcommittee has rejected the passenger transport committee's proposal for dealing with the further losses incurred by the municipality's transport undertaking despite increases in fares in 1947. The corporation • has been recommended to seek authority for further increases in fares.
As previously reported, the passenger transport committee recommended that advice be sought on the abolition of workmen's-fares, and that, meanwhile. the cOrporation should ask permission to alter the time limit for the issue of workmen's tickets from 9 a.m. to 8 a.m.