LUXURY LANDLINER

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 79, Issue 7145, 14 December 1949, Page 6

LUXURY LANDLINER

“THE VALIANT” IN TE AWAMUTU FIRST TRIP BY NEW OMNIBUS The appearance of a luxury landliner in Te Awamutu on Saturday afternoon created a good deal of interest and speculation as to the reason* for its being in the town, seeing that Te Awamutu is not on the route'.over which the landliners travel. I The landliner in question is named “Valiant” and it is the second purchased by the two returned servicemen who inaugurated the service. The landliners run from Auckland to Wellington and vice versa and they do not stop to pick up or set down passengers at intermediate .towns. The “Valiant” is an all-electric motor-omnibus of de luxe quality. It seats 24 passengers and it is fitted with a kitchen, toilet, electric heaters and receptacles for cigarette butts, and a supply of water flushes those receptacles, thus preventing any semblance of fire. Each seat is equipped with an individual electric reading lamp, thus enabling passengers to read at an hour when other travellers prefer the main lights to be switched off. There are racks for papers and magazines. Provision is also made for those who suffer from motor travel sickness to be as comfortably sick as possible. All food carried is in covered cupboards. The seating is most comfortable and a journey in the landliner nftist be a delightful mode of travel. The landliners carry hostesses who not only attend to wants of passengers most courteously but they describe marks of interest as the omnir bus travels along the long journey. The “a’iant” was making its first trip from Wellington to Auckland and it travelled via the Desert Road and came to Te Awamutu to enable the crew and passengers to get a meal.