Carving Out a, New Career
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THE ambition of a carpenter to run an express coach service from Bristol to Salonika for Greeks going on holiday, took a step nearer realization in London last week.
Mr. C. J. Macdonald, the Metropolitan Deputy Traffic Commissioner, granted backing to a primary licence for Thomas Easton Neilson, of The Old Rectory, Binegar, near Bath, enabling him to stop at Guildford, Surrey, for lunch but not to pick up. or--set down passengers there.
Mr. Neilson, whose wife is Greek, said he was going to give up being a carpenter. and joiner to run this service for Greeks with whom he had good. connections. There was a large Greek community in most major towns and cities inBritain. he said. Most of them could not afford air.travel home but they would welcome his coach service.
The cost would be £.60, covering accommodation and transport on the outward and return journeys (eight days each way). He would operate the service -from May to September.
The proposed route was from Bristol to Dover and then through France. Switzerland, Italy, Yugoslavia and ell to Greece. As soon as he had the necessaty licences he would buy a 41-seat coach and employ a driver to assist him.
His primary licence had already been granted and his application for backing to (ravel via Hungerford, Reading, Maidstone and Dover had yet to be heard.
IN REVERSE
nARLINGTON Transport Committee
has decided to change the colour scheme of its buses from blue with cream bands to cream with blue bands. The change-over of the 63 buses will take three years.