A BIG COMPANY'S 1929 TRAVEL PROGRAMME.
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What Has Been Planned for the Forthcoming Season by the Northern General Transport Co., Ltd.
1-1 I:RING the Easter • holiday the _LI Northern General Transport Co., Ltd., of Chester-le-Street, launched its 1929 programmeof pleasure tours,which is quite the most ambitious ever planned in the company's 15 years' association with the passenger transport busiieess. The magnitude of this programme will be gathered when it is mentioned that in the period between Good Friday and Sunday, September 29th, the company will run upwards of 1,000 advertised half-day, day, extended and longdistance daily tours, apart from undertaking a large volume of private-hire work which is secured each summer.
Quite the most notable departure this year is the development of daily, limitedstop, long-distance services, the latest phase of road passenger work which the Northern GeneraL Transport Co., Ltd., did much to foster during last summer. This year four long-distance routes will be worked on a daily basis.
The limited-stop services are ai follow:—
Single fare. Newcastle-Blackpool (daily)... ... 1La. Newcastle-Southport (daily) ... 12s.
Neacas-,le-renritla.Kesnick (twice
Newcastle-Manchester (two-houtIV service) ... 121.
The two-hourly service between Tyne side and the Lancashire capital is the outcome of interesting joint working arrangements with three Companies, the North Western Road Car Co., Ltd., of Stockport; the West Yorkshire Road Car Co., Ltd., of Harrogate; and the Yorkshire (Woollen District) Electric Tramways Co., Ltd. Each company will work the route and tickets will be available on any vehicle owned by the four concerns.
Extended tours are again a feature of the company's programme, and the many and varied excursions arranged provide, at moderate charges, ideal
holidays of from three to 14 days' duration. Resultant upon its extreme popularity in past eeasons, the company's celebrated Keswick and English Lakeland tour of three days will be run each week throughout the season. The vehicles leave Newcastle each Tuesday morning, and traverse a mileage of appreximately 300, touching no fewer
station in Westgate Road, Newcastle, purely for pleasure traffic, and this will become ever increasingly busy in the course of the next five months. The company, which now has a fleet of over 300 buses and coaches, all of which are pneurnatic-tyrecl, is this year making additions to its fleet of open coaches with all-weather equipment.