MANCHESTER COACHING RATES NOW ALL SETTLED
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Full Schedule Produced by Local Association will be Rigidly Observed TEI Manchester and Salford motorManchestercoach owners, who launched their 1931 programmes last week-end (Easter), will, as in past years, observethe fares list compiled by the joint motor-coach section of the Manchester Transport Owners Association and the local branch of the C.M.U.A.
This list, which is adopted by between 130 and 150 coach owners in the adjoining cities of Manchester and Salford, owning in all nearly 450 coaches, as has
MOTOR-COACH owners are gradually dispensing with the frills of the personally conducted tour by appreciating that passengers on travel holidays do not like their soliloquies or slumbers to be disturbed by a• whitecoated guide who, every now and then, points out places and objects of interest.
If passengers want topographical knowledge they should be able to get a wad of it from the coach owner's office, That is the idea behind the issue of the Silent Courier by the Merseyside Touring Co., of 28, Chapel Street, Liverpool. On long journeys covering a week or more, the crying out of historical data and the names of places of interest beeomes monotonous and irritating, until the passenger is glad to be been the case in past years, provides for a lower fare on ordinary week-days than on Saturdays and holidays, the object being to attract mid-week patronage and to equalize business so far as is possible. A special fare is also quoted in some instances for long-period passengers.
beyond the range of "that voice," seductive, pleasant—but insistent.
Passengers booking seats, for period tours with the Merseyside Touring Co., Ltd., this season will receive a carefully compiled booklet which will enable them to learn• as much as is likely to interest them of the places through which they travel, and which embodies an annotated map of the route On which the important place names are numbered. When the coach reaches any of the places mentioned, the driver puts on the front bulkhead the key number. Generally, the list shows little variation from the 1930 settle of fares, except that in a few instances there is a slight• increase, This applies in the main to routes over difficult country, where owners have found that prevailing rates did not allow them a reasonable margiu of profit. The following list shows the return rates-to be charged on some of the more popular coach runs from the Manchester district:—
This season the company is adding to its already ambitious programme of period tours. There will be tours front five days, covering a mileage of 484 to the Wye Valley, up to 1,181 miles (12 days) to the Burns coun*ry and the Highlands of Scotland.
Here is a summary of this season's programme of period tours, which, it will be seen, offers an attractive selection for the holiday-maker