PULLMAN COACH
REAR-ENGINED LUXURY. The latest in road night motorcoaches in America is a rear-engined vehicle of aluminium alloy. Described as a "Highway Pullman," it is 33ft in length and in divided into six 1 separate compartments similar to those in European railway carriages. Each compartment has a wash-basin j and shaving-mirror, a radio, electric lights and fan, and hot and ice water. The berths are 6ft 3in long, with liberal headroom, and air-filled mattresses. Luxurious as it is, and fitted with an engine capable of propelling it at 70 miles an hour, the coach weighs only 18,50001b. Heavy service balloon tyres are fitted, and puncture s ealing inner tubes, and sidewalls of red, white and blue rubber. The driving shaft is only 44in long. I
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 410, 20 December 1932, Page 7
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