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Housing Estate Provides Free Travel
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ONE would not suggest selecting a 1..../house on a new building estate in order to ride in a luxurious coach free of charge, but the attraction of haying free travel, from any point on an estate to the main road, is certainly a service which intending householders unquestionably appreciate.
The Frogmore Park Estate, at Hayes. Middlesex, which is being developed by T. F. Nash Construction, Ltd., covers an area of 283 acres, so that a person living at the farthest point from the main Uxbridge Road would have a considerable distance to walk to get a public-service vehicle or to shop.
This disability, which must attend any estate development on such a huge scale, has been overcome by the provision of a Dodge 29-seater coach, which runs a regular estate service from 6 a.m. to 10.30 a.m. and from 3.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. No fares are charged, and whilst the vehicle does not actually pass all the houses, residents not on the actual route have only a few yards to walk to pick up their transport.
Some idea of the use made of this service may he appreciated from the fact that during the first week— February 6 to 11-800 passengers were carried each day, from Monday to Friday, and 1,500 on the Saturday.
These figures will show substantial increases week by week, as, whilst the total number of houses already erected is 1,400, the full programme provides
for 2,157 houses, 90 shops, two school 'sites, a church and a public-house. The coach used is exceptionally well appointed, the Harrington slidingroof body, which is of the dorsal-fin type, being upholstered throughout in patterned moquette in a scheme of red. Luggage racks, ashtrays, bulkhead clock, and chromium finish to the
metal fittings, serve to give to the interior a sound impression of the comfort and convenience afforded by modern coach travel.
It may be mentioned that the estate company runs an extensive fleet of vehicles in connection with its house construction and hence the servicing equipment for the coach is ready to hand.
Such initiative as has been shown in these cases is, we think, to be encouraged, as not only must it represent excellent propaganda for the builders, but, indirectly, it must prove to. be good advertising for coach travel in general.