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2 to 15 day
holiday tours
      2 DAY TOURS
TOUR No. 12   Exmoor
TOUR No. 13   Wye Valley and Stratford-on-Avon
      3 DAY TOURS
TOUR No. 1   North Devon
TOUR No. 2   South Devon
TOUR No. 9   Isle of Thanet and Canterbury
TOUR No. 10   Blackpool Illuminations
      6 DAY TOURS
TOUR No. 3   Devon and Cornwall
TOUR No. 5   Blackpool and the English Lakes
TOUR No. 11   Harrogate and Yorkshire Dales
      7 DAY TOURS
TOUR No. 4   Wye Valley and North Wales
TOUR No. 6   Norfolk Broads and Harrogate
      8 DAY TOUR
TOUR No. 14   Scotland - Lakes - Wales
      12 DAY TOUR
TOUR No. 7   Scotland and The Lakes
      15 DAY TOUR
TOUR No. 8   Scottish Highlands and John O'Groats
FARES

These are fully inclusive and include Reserved Coach Seat, good hotel accommodation with dinner, bedroom and breakfast, early morning tea, newspaper (when available), luncheons and teas en route and gratuities to hotel staff.

INTRODUCTION

Our programme for 1958 includes all the proved popular tours from our many years experience of travelling holidays. Some new tours have been planned; each week there is a tour to Scotland but the duration varies from 8 to 15 days so that there is a wide choice of route and price. A new tour including the Isle of Skye and a short tour of the Lincolnshire bulb fields during tulip time will be advertised by separate pamphlet and will give even more variety to our ever increasing range.

Last summer the numbers who took a Hants and Dorset touring holiday reached the highest level so far; about 3,000 people took advantage of our trouble free holiday service where they are relieved of all responsibility in arranging travel, hotels, meals and the numerous other items which crop up in holiday planning. Rest, relaxation and interest are our main objectives for those who each year rely on us for a carefree holiday.

For those who have not before travelled on one of the Company's touring holidays, the following notes may be of interest:

The charges for these tours are fully inclusive in every sense and provide not only reserved coach seat, hotel accommodation (including gratuities) with dinner, bedroom, breakfast, early morning tea and newspaper, but luncheons and teas on route (including gratuities) at selected restaurants and cafés, all of which have been inspected for satisfactory service.

A fleet of modern coaches, specially designed for long-distance cruising and constructed to the latest standard of luxury is used exclusively on these tours. For most tours coaches are fitted with armchair seats, each individually adjustable to three positions and spaced so as to give ample leg room. Adequate sun-shading and ventilation have received attention, when, in emergency or for any reason, these special coaches cannot be used the substitute coach is of the latest design as used on long distance day tours and with a very high standard of comfortable seating and interior finish. Rugs for each passenger and optional heating complete a standard of comfort unsurpassed in road travel.

The Couriers are drivers of long experience and specially selected for their courtesy and skill.

The itineraries include the best-known beauty spots, historical monuments, famous towns and places of interest.

Seat reservation may be made at any of the Company's Offices or appointed Booking Agencies, particulars of which are given at the end of this brochure.

All coach cruises will, as far as possible, be operated as advertised, but the Company reserves the right to cancel or alter any tour if conditions make such a course necessary, or there have been insufficient bookings.

Pricing information
Guineas (gns) to Pounds Conversion
1gn = £1.1s.0d (one pound and one shilling) or £1.05 in decimal currency.
gns   £ s d   £ p 2010
  £5.15s.6d   £5.77½ £101
  £8.18s.6d   £8.92½ £155
18   £18.18s   £18.90 £329
19   £19.19s   £19.95 £348
21½   £22.11s.6d   £22.57½ £393
23   £24.3s   £24.15 £421
26   £27.6s   £27.30 £476
40   £42   £42.00 £732
50   £52.10s   £52.50 £915
Prices were often shown in guineas rather than pounds so that they appeared lower than they actually were (50gns is £52.50) although there were no guinea coins or bank-notes. This table shows the tour prices in pre 1971 pounds, shillings and pence with the post 1971 decimal (£p) equivalent.
2010 values are an approximate guide to the amount these prices would be today using the retail price index. In relation to average earnings, the 2010 price would be about double that shown.
The coach driver would have been earning about £8 per week. Hants & Dorset holidays were aimed at relatively well off people.
Source: measuringworth.com
 
  North Devon  
Tour No. 1 8½ gns. 3 Days

This tour is centred on the beautiful North Devon coast. On the second day you visit Clovelly in the morning, and are left with the afternoon free to explore Ilfracombe.

Wild Exmoor country, the setting of Blackmore's Lorna Doone, forms the background for the return journey.

DEPARTURE DATES - Saturdays, 21st June, 26th July, 27th September

  South Devon  
Tour No. 2 8½ gns. 3 Days

Torquay is chosen as the centre for this tour of South Devon. This well-known resort is sufficient attraction in itself but the tour is enhanced by a drive through Devonshire to Polperro, an old fishing village on the South Cornish coast, perhaps the best loved by artists of all West-country subjects.

DEPARTURE DATES
Saturdays, 7th and 28th June, 12th July, 16th and 30th August
  Isle of Thanet and Canterbury  
Tour No. 9 8½ gns. 3 Days

This tour is designed to explore the far south-eastern tip of England, which has an unusual character and historical association. Two nights are spent at the Chaucer Hotel, Canterbury. The second morning is left free in the ancient cathedral city, and in the afternoon there is a sixty mile coastal tour.

The return journey on the third day follows the contour of the beautiful South Downs.

DEPARTURE DATES
Mondays, 2nd and 16th June, 7th and 21st July, 11th and 25th August, 8th September
  Blackpool Illuminations  
Tour No. 10 8½ gns. 3 Days

The Autumn Illuminations at Blackpool are such an outstanding annual attraction that many like to make a special visit for this alone. This weekend tour has been designed to take you there, and give you a complete day and two nights in which to view Blackpool and the illuminations.

DEPARTURE DATES
Bournemouth: 19th Sept., 17th October.
Southampton: 12th Sept., 3rd October.

For the convenience of patrons who do not wish to take lunch and tea at the hotel in Blackpool on the Saturday a special fare of 8 gns. will apply. Patrons are requested to state their requirements at the time of booking.

  Devon and Cornwall  
Tour No. 3 18 gns. 6 Days

Within six days it is almost impossible to see the whole of these two lovely counties, but this tour takes you through the length and breadth of Devon and Cornwall and shows you most of the best known places of interest. The Valley of Rocks Hotel, Lynton, and the King Arthur's Castle Hotel, Tintagel, are the centres from which you tour the countryside. Famous place names such as Land's End, Tintagel, Clovelly and Lynton are the best surety of the value of this tour.

DEPARTURE DATES
Every Monday from 19th May until 22nd September
Blackpool and English Lakes
Tour No. 5 19 gns. 6 Days

The attraction of this tour lies particularly in the contrast between the gaiety of Blackpool and the lonely grandeur of the Lake District. Grange-over-Sands is chosen as the centre for the Lake District and a whole day tour gives you an opportunity of seeing Keswick, Ambleside and Windermere, where, if you wish you may take a steamer trip on the Lake.

In the Autumn this tour is a most pleasant way of combining a week's holiday with the viewing of the Blackpool Illuminations.

DEPARTURE DATES
Every Monday from 2nd June until 13th October
Harrogate and Yorkshire Dales
Tour No. 11 18 gns. 6 Days

A tour of the Yorkshire Dales is unforgettable. What loveliness lies in this unspoilt northern half of England's largest county: the hazy distances of the moors, the Fells and Dales, home of the Bronte family. The fair town of Harrogate is the centre for this tour and excursions are made to York Minster, Fountains Abbey, Ripon Cathedral, Bolton Abbey and many other places.

The journeys up and back are each completed in one day, leaving four days for leisurely touring of this beautiful district.

DEPARTURE DATES
Mondays, 2nd, 16th and 30th June, 14th and 28th July, 11th and 25 August,
8th September
Wye Valley and North Wales
Tour No. 4 21½ gns. 7 Days

This tour ranges from the broad meadows of England to the misty mountains of Wales. The first two nights are spent at Cheltenham, an ideal centre for the Wye Valley which is reached on the second day. The next two nights are at Bettws-y-Coed, with a whole day tour of Snowdonia and Caernarvon, giving those who wish to an opportunity of ascending Snowdon by mountain railway. The return journey from Bettws-y-Coed is through country so well described in George Borrow's Wild Wales to the famous view point 'Devil's Bridge'; then on to spend the fifth night at Llandrindod Wells before returning to Cheltenham for the last night of the tour.

DEPARTURE DATES
Every Sunday from 18th May until 21st September
Norfolk Broads and Harrogate
Tour No. 6 23 gns. 7 Days

A first night's stay at the Olde Bull's Head Hotel, Aylesbury, is a fitting introduction to this tour through the historic Eastern counties' countryside, the Broads and the West Riding of Yorkshire.

From Aylesbury the true East Anglian scene gradually unfolds until you reach the Broads. Then you travel up the East Coast as far as Harrogate, where two nights are spent before you return home through Leicester and Oxford.

DEPARTURE DATES
Sundays, 8th and 22nd June, 6th and 20th July, 3rd, 17th and 31st August,
14th September.
Scotland and The Lakes
Tour No. 7 40 gns. 12 Days

Through England by way of the Yorkshire Moors, over the border, and into Scotland, this tour takes in the beauties of the Trossachs with the gateway to the Highlands through Pitlochry, and also gives an opportunity for you to see Scotland's two largest cities - Edinburgh and Glasgow. One of the finest Scottish Hydros has been chosen for the first three nights in Scotland. Among other interesting places visited are Gretna Green, Stirling, the Trossachs, the Forth Bridge and Perth.

The return journey southwards takes you through the Lake District.

DEPARTURE DATES
Saturdays, 14th June, 26th July, 16th August.
Scottish Highlands and John O'Groats
Tour No. 8 50 gns. 15 Days

This tour has been newly designed for those wishing to see the extreme northern Highlands of Scotland, and to do this in a leisurely fashion.

Stirling, Perth - ancient capital of Scotland - Pitlochry, Fort Augustus, Fort William, Inverness and John O'Groats are a few of the places visited.

Travelling south through Glencoe, the return journey includes Loch Lomond, Keswick, the Lake District, Lancaster and Cheltenham, the fashionable inland Spa.

DEPARTURE DATE
Saturday, 5th July
Tour No. 12 Exmoor 2 Days
  5½ gns.  

This is a pleasant week-end tour to renowned beauty spots on the north coast of Devon.

The places visited are beyond reach of the normal day tour and make a perfect background for a week-end holiday.

DEPARTURE DATES
Saturdays, 19th July and 13th September.
Wye Valley and Stratford-on-Avon
Tour No. 13 5½ gns. 2 Days

What could be better than a pleasant week-end tour to the beautiful Wye Valley for those wanting a short break from their usual surroundings?

This tour takes in the Wye Valley and touches many places of outstanding interest and beauty such as Oxford, Stratford-on-Avon, Ross-on-Wye, Wells and the Cheddar Gorge.

DEPARTURE DATES
Saturdays, 12th July and 6th September.
Scotland - The Lakes - Wales
Tour No. 14 26 gns. 8 Days

This tour has been introduced for those wishing to see as much as is comfortably possible of Scotland and Wales in one week's holiday. The tour is packed with interest and planned to include many well-known beauty spots and places of interest.

After a night's stay in Harrogate three nights are spent in Edinburgh, and on the third day you are left free to explore the Scottish Capital. Next you stay in the Lake District at Keswick; then at Grange-over-Sands. Travelling southwards from Grange-over-Sands you cross the Welsh border and continue to Llandrindod Wells for the last night of the tour.

DEPARTURE DATES
Saturdays, 31st May, 7th, 21st and 28th June,
12th and 19th July, 2nd, 9th, 23rd and 30th August,
6th September.
   
 
 
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