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CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY COACHING.

9th February 1926
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Useful Revenue Obtained in Some Instances from the Operation of Coaches.

I./ URING the boom years after 1918 many co-operative societies bought motor coaches and organized day trips and tours for their members during the summer and used the chassis for commercial purposes in the winter.

In 1920, the Nelson, Pendleton, Murton, Ashton-underLyne, Mossley, Langley Mill, Denton, Leigh, Middlestown, Sheffield, Crompton, Rochdale, Wigan, Eccles, Failsworth, -Nottingham, Woolwich, London, Leeds, Birmingham, Plymouth, Bradford and. other. English co-operative societies culled motor coach-?s, and it seemed as though the business was becoming' universal. But a kind of reaction has set in and some of them have disposed of their.coaches, whilst certain of the smaller societies. have found the dual utilization of the one chassis for touring and for commercial purposes an uneconomical proposition.

Many societies, however, are continuinpythe enterprise. The Denton Society ran its 24-seater Daimler coach 4,500 miles without mishap last season and is arranging for works and club parties for 1926, as well as for trips to the Derbyshire dales and the Lakes.

In London, the London Co-operative Society has its four motor coaches (three 28-seater Dennis's and one 28-seater Commer) garaged at Chobhain Road, Stratford, and arranges for excursion parties from all the districts in North, West and East London. For the March-September half-year of 1.925 its receipts for char-a-bancs fares we're' £3,434; the expenses were £2,508, and the department made a profit of £495. .

In South London, the Royal Arsenal Society Operate-s half a dozen Dennis motor coaches, and is developing its department for the hire of motor broughams, etc. This is run in connection with its, theatre ticket office, and the joint receipts are about £6,000 in the half-year. The average weekly purchases of members in all departments are 12s. 8d. per week. The motor coach receipts work out at id. per member per week.

Probably the most enterprising motor coach department in the movement is that of the Birmingham Society. Some of ita vehicles are fitted with five-valve wireless receiving sets and loud-speakers. This will be the society's seventh coach-operating season. Already the vehicles have a record of 125,000 miles to their credit without a mechanical breakdown, and parties of 600 are frequently handled with ease.

The Leeds Society is another with an important traffic department that in the first half of 1925 paid £1,660 for licences, £2,702 for the petrol and oil, and £22,790 for wages. Its charges to the Society's own departments for transport were 140,454, and its motor coach receipts amounted to £717. The Sheffield and Ecclesall Society also does motor haulage and has a department for motor tours,

Co-operators are great travellers, and most of the Lancashire and Yorkshire societies arrange long-distance excursions. Some of them also organize trips t.-) the Continent.


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