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Show New Highway Leviathan Carries 53 Passengers V . g x i f- Pickwiek Peature Service. World's largest inter-city motorbus, the new Pickwick Duplex Daycoach, with accommodations ac-commodations for 53 passengers, 35 on the upper deck and 18 on the lower; equipped with lavatory and large interior baggage compartment and with portable tables for dining or card playing. HUGE PASSENGER BUSSES TO START SERVICE SOON Another notable chapter in transportation trans-portation history will be written within the next few days when two of the new 53-passenger Pickwick Pick-wick Duplex day coaches, world's largest inter-city busses, are placed in service on the Pickwick-Grey-h6und lines between Los Angeles and Salt Lake City, it was announced an-nounced by J. D. Watson, general traffic manager, who spent a few days in St. George on business recently. Coincidentally, two other coaches of the same type, product of the The Duplex, Jike the Nitecoach, also a s product of Pickwick designers and engi- ! neers, is of all-metal construction with shat- ter - proof glass, emergency exits and air j brakes as added safety features and crew j which includes a courier in addition to the ( driver. Pickwick motor coach works at El i Segundo, are scheduled to go into j service on Pacific Greyhound lines i between San Francisco and San Jo'se. By June, it is planned to add two more Duplex coaches to the Salt Lake City line through St. George, eliminating entirely the 27-passenger coaches now in service ser-vice on this run. Increased travel over the Arrowhead Trail prompted prompt-ed substitution of the double-deck ers, Mr. Watson said. As an added safety feature, each Duplex coach will carry a crew of two, a driver and conductor, or courier, whose business it will be to attend to the comfort of passengers. pass-engers. The addition of an extra man was deemed advisable owing to the greater carrying capacity of the Duplex over the 27-passenger models. The men selected to act as couriers will be given a two weeks' course of instruction before being sent out on a run. Speeding up of the Pickwick trans-continental service has been accomplished, according to Mr. Watson, through rearrangement of schedules which now provides direct di-rect connections with other schedules sched-ules at all transfer points, including includ-ing Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, Denver, Kansas City and points east. With inauguration of the new Duplex service, one schedule will leave Los Angeles at 8 a. m., and arrive Salt Lake City at 11:30 a. m. the following day; the second sec-ond schedule will leave Los Angeles at 6 p. m. and arrive in Salt Lake City at 9:50 p. m. I |