THE BLACKPOOL COACHING SEASON STARTS.
Page 22
Page 23
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
Short and Long Tours Arranged by Proprietors in Connection with the Blackpool Tradesmen's Holiday Week.
Noplace in the country could surpass by the variety of its tours the programme drawn up and executed by the Blackpool motor coach owners during Blackpool Tradesmen's Holiday Week. This is an annual May fixture extending over ten days, during which shopkeepers, hotel and boarding-house keepers, etc., take the opportunity for a sojourn from the scene of their usual
labours, before Blackpool is besieged from June onwards by the trippers and holiday-makers from all the Lancashire towns.
From Liverpool and Manchester there are two or three daily motor coach services, and there are several more from other Lancashire towns. Moreover, motorbuses discharge an enormous -annual total of passengers at this favourite resort. Blackpool coach owners say "The more the merrier," for the greater the visiting crowds the bigger the ratio of patronage for the coaches.
Blackpool has a fleet of about 200 motor coaches, large and small, of the open, enclosed and semi-enclosed types. It is hardly possible to find in any coaching area a more miscellaneous assortment. All the vehielei were in service during Tradesmen's Week and were used for tours' of from a half-day to a week's duration.
One owner, Mr. Alfred 'Whiteside, has intimated the issue of season tickets at 112 '10s. each and these enable the holders to enjoy, any day or other tour at option, for the inclusive figure. • His fixtures for the tradesmen's holidays were as follow :—Five-day tour to Eastbourne, Folkestone and South Coast, including hotel, dinner, bed and breakfast, 15 10s. ; two-day tour to Ilkley, York, Harrogate and Fountain's Abbe', t2 2s.; Chester 1125 miles), return fare Sc.
The Lancia saloons of Messrs. Standorwieks *ere employed on a four day tour in the Welsh mountains, .visiting the Llanberis, Abergla.slyn; Nant Ffrancon, Gwynant and Crimean Passes.. The motor tour cost 27s. 6d., or, including late dinner, bed and breakfast, /4 5s. Then there WaS a two-day tour • to Hamigate, York and Scarborough, the motor tour casting 22s. 6d.,
or, including late dinner, bed and breakfast, 27s. 6d. Another two-day tour was to the Isle of Anglesey, the motor tour for this being 22s. 6d., or, including late dinner, bed and breakfast, 37s. dd. Day trips were run to Harrogate, Buxton, Chester, Liverpool, Ilkley and Bolton Abbey, Windermere and Keswick.
The pneumatic-tyred coaches of
Messrs. Porritt and Wolstenholme were concentrated on one-day tours, the destinations and charges being as follow :—Harrogate, 10s.; Buxton, 10s. ; Keswick, 10s. 6d.; Chester, Os.; Ilkley and Bolton Abbey, Os.; Windermere, 8s. These fares work out at about id. per passenger per mile.
The fleet of Maudslays, including the vehicles added a few weeks ago, operated ty Messrs. WM. Marshall and Son, undertook the following .journeys :— Ten-day tour to Devonshire, Cornwall and Land's End ; five-day tour to Wye Valley and Wales; two-day tour to Bettws-y-Coed and North Wales; threeday tour to Wye Valley at a fare of £3 10s., including late dinner, bed and breakfast at first-class hotels.
The Lancia all-weather coaches of J. W. Dewhurst and Co., Ltd., were used on a seven-day tour to Devon and Cornwall ; a four-day tour to Torquay; a two-day tour to York, Harrogate and Scarborough ; a two-day tour to Chester, Llangollen, Colwyn Bay and Llandudno,• the journey being arranged at fares which included dinner, bed and breakfast. There were also daily tours to Koswiclg, York, Harrogate and Chester.
S. and J. Wood, Ltd., owners of -the Seagull fleet, arranged two two-day tours at 358. each (inclusive of hotels and meals) to Llandudno, and Buxton and Matlock. Their day tours comprised journeys to Harrogate, Keswick, Windermere, Chester, Kirkby Lonsdale. Ingleton, Settle and Gisburn, Liverpool and Southport, and Morecambe.
Messrs. Butterworths ran a long twoday trip to Scotland and the Lakes, the inclusive fare of 17s. 6d. covering dinner, bed and breakfast. A similar outing was arranged by Messrs. Jacksons, 4, Bolton Street, Blackpool.
The Batty-Holt Touring Service sent Lancia.s to Harrogate, York and Scarborough for two days at £2 and for fenr days at £4 10s. They also arranged ' a seven-day tour to North Devon for 10 Os.; a two-day run to Llandudno, Llangollen and Bangor for £2 2s. ; and a five-day tour to Torquay for 15 10s.
There was a good selection of two-day outings by Black and White "Motor Coach Tours (Mr. J. Hodge), who operate saloon coaches. There Were five-day outings to Cromer and Norfolk Broads (two nights at Cromer), a day's coaching to Wroxham for a trip on the Norfolk Broads, one night at Nottingham and one night at Doncaster, for an inclusive fare of 1.6 6s. Two-day tours wore iun to Edinburgh and London at a fare, including breakfast on arrival, late dinner, bed and breakfast at hotel, of Ll 5s. A two-day tour to Scarborough, 'via Skipton, Ilkley, Harrogate and York, was undertaken, the fare, including two lunches, late dinner, bed and breakfast, being £2 2s.
Queen of the North Tours (Mr. 3. Jenkins) ran a two-day tour to Llanc;udno, Bangor and Llangollen for £2; another of similar duration to Scarborough, York and Harrogate for ft 17s. 6d. ; as well as day trips to Windermere (10s.), Harrogate and Knaresborough (12s.), Southport and Morecambe (5s.).
North Wales was also the venue selected by Mr. J. E. Taylor, whose pneumatic-tyred coaches made journeys to North Wales, visiting Chester, Ilawarden, Holywell, Rhyl, Colwyn Bay, Llandudno, Conway, Bangor '(stayed night here), Menai Bridge, Nant Firancon Pam (viewing Snowdon), Bettws-y-Coed, Corwen and Llangollen. The fare of £2 2s. included late dinner, bed and breakfast.
Apart from ordinary engagements, Messrs. W. Salisbury and Sons sent coaches to Torquay on a five-day tour for £5 10s.. or a four-day tour for £4 10s. They also organized a five-day tour to Dumfries, Glaston, Edinburgh, Carlisle and through the English Lakes far £5 108., as well as a two-day run to Llandudno, Bangor and Llangollen for £2 2s. All these tours included late einner, bed 'mid breakfast. Single-day trips to York and Harrogate (12s. 6d.), Llangollen and Chester (11s. 6d.), Keswick and Winderinere (10s.) were also arranged.
Messrs. Wm. Taylor and Sons, of Albert Road, organized a seven-day tour with saloon coaches to Yorkshire; a ten-day run to Devonshire, Cornwall, Land's End and TorqUay, and a twoday journey to Carlisle and the English Lakes. There were also day trips to all parts.
A tour to the South Coast, including a full day in Torquay, by a Lancia and a Reo Pullman coach (five days for £5 Sc. and six days for £6 6s,, including late dinner, bed and breakfast) was featured by Empire de Luxe Motors.
Mr. John H. Jackson toak a. coach party on a three-day tour to Scotland and the English Lakes, visiting Carliste, Gretna Green, Moffat Spa, Dumfries, Keswick, etc. The inclusive fare was £3.
The arrangements of Messrs. Wm. Armitage and Sons included runs to Bournemouth and West of England, four days, for £4 103.• Searborough, Bridlington and Flamborough, three days, for £2 17s. 6d.; Scarborough, York, Harrogate, two• days, for £1 17s. 6d.; Skegness and Lincoln, two days, for £1 17s. 6th; each tour including late dinner, bed and breakfast. Day trips were also organised to Harrogate, Boston Spa and Knaresborough (12s.}, Rudyard Lake and Buxton (12s.).
Messrs. G. Whittaker and Sons arranged an extended tour over seven days to Torquay, which allowed two free days at Torquay, for an inclusive fare of £7 10s. Day tours included those to Windermere (Sc.) and Higher Hodder and Whalley (Sc. 6d.)..