PASSENGER-VEHICLE ACTIVITIES IN NOTTINGHAM.
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The Motorbus and Coaching Operations of a Prominent Company Who Have Displayed Much Enterprise in Meeting Public Requirements.
TliE inhabitants of Nottingham are almost entirely dependent on the motorbus services run by private enterprise for reaching the villages within a score of miles of the great lace centre. Moreover, hundreds of them travel to coastal resorts by such vehicles, and the Trent Motor Traction Co., Ltd., who have their headquarters at Derby, have made Nottiugham an important centre from which services of this kind are run, a typical journey being that to. Skegness,
distauae. of 78 miles, which is under, taken on Saturdays.
The starting point of the company's services which are run from, Nottingham, is in Parliament Street, where important premises have been acquired and converted into a passenger station and
parcels depot. The new offices were opened in March last, and they have .already become an important and recognized centre from which passenger vehicle services emanate.
About a year ago Mr. F Thompson,
who had had considerable experience in railway organization, was appointed the resident , superintendent of. the Trentmotor services, and he. has developed a system of road journeys which equal the railway for punctuality.
The garage for the company's vehicles is at Lenton, a suburb two miles from the market place of the city, and between this depot and the starting. ?cant in Parliament Street motor vehicles run every hoar conveying 'supplies of fuel and other essentials needed by the buses on regular service.
The company own a fleet of 26 Tilling SteVens motorbuses and seven motor coaches of the same make, and these are under the supervision of Mr. Thompson. . Some of the conapany's most important services proVide a direct link with Derby, Which is 1.4 miles distant ; with Leicester, which involves a road journey of 32 miles and is linked • up by a service to Loughborough, where passengers change over on to the vehicles running into this centre Seven buses are employed to maintain an half-hourly service with Mansfield, a distance of 214 miles. Another popula, run is that to Barton Joyce via Gedling, a 13-minute .service being maintained: The inhabitants of all the villages on the routes served by the Trent buses recognise the value of such vehicles which touch mauy places which cannot be reached by the railway. • .
-In connection with the operation of the buses g parcels delivery • service a. worked. The depot in • Parliament Street is equipped on similar lines to . railway warehouse in Order to enable the prompt despatch of parcels to the company's agents. who are located in most of the prominent buiness centres On the occasion of the recent Whitsun holiday the company introduced a special bu,s ticket known as an " anywhere ticket," by the use of which the eolder is entitled to travel on any of the coinpany's bus ore any route on the day ef issue. The price of the ticket is 4s., and it has already been greatly in demand by commercial travel. lers and others visiting the colliery and other villages embraced by the com pany's services. Discount tickets are also 'ssued for the convenience of resi, dente making daily journeys. From the special attention -which is given to the travelling requirements of the public it is obvious that the Trent Motor Traction Company's services are
being conducted with considerable spirit and' enterprise.
The motor coaching season in Nottingham has opened in a promising manner. During the Arecent -showery weather Mr. F. Thompson adopted a method which has proved most popular amongst ccadh travellers, this being the announcement of a "surprise trip," the charge being 2s. and the journey occupying from 7 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. This class of run has been well patronized and now forms an established feature of the company's programme.