Trial Licence for Blackpool Trips
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E question how popular Blackpool :liuminations were with the residents inckley, Leics, was argued before ihe Midland Traffic Commissioners at ster last week.
ree coach operators sought licences n day trips from Hinckley to Blackin response, they said, to requests people who wanted to sec the illutions. The applicants were J. nson and Son (Burbage), Ltd., fleet Motor Services, Ltd., Nun. and the Birmingham and Midland r Omnibus, Ltd.
tish Railways objected in each case, an official said that rail excursions Hinckley to Blackpool, which used a every week while the illuminations in progress, had been reduced to last year, because they lacked )rt. One train had carried only 14 ngers from Hinckley.
e chairman. Mr. C. R. Hodgson. the Commissioners would test the for day trips by granting ason's, who made the first applicaa licence to run one vehicle, but at week-ends when British Railways not providing excursions.
AN VERSION OF D.A.F. 600 VING a 177-cu.-ft. body, a protoype light van based on the D.A.F. private car has been built by Doorne*s Automobielfabrick, N.V., toven, Holland, and is shortly to go rial service on milk delivery. Supernal-drive gearing has been employed at the van can carry a 15-cwt. pay1 a top speed not exceeding 15 m.p.h. olland, any slow vehicle of this type Pe driven by a person who does not a driving licence.)
600 car has a special automatic nission system using belts and adjustV-pulleys. It is powered by a forengine which develops 22 h.h.p., tas fully 'independent suspension.