Nitecoach

The discomforts of all-night bus travel, amply publicized in 1934's prize cinema, It Happened One Night, are familiar to most U. S. citizens. But few Easterners know that, since 1929, Pacific Greyhound Lines has operated a sleeper-bus service up the West Coast from Los Angeles to San Francisco. This week Pacific Greyhound will give midlanders a taste of high-way sleeping when it opens "nitecoach" service from Los Angeles to Kansas City --first daily cross-country sleeper-bus in the U. S.

The 1,500-mi. run will take 52 hr. -- 6 hr. less than the old schedule. Regular basic fare is $24, plus $5 for a berth, upper or lower. Built by General Motors, the nitecoach has berths for 25 including five double-berths 47 in. wide, which cost $7. Single berths are 29 in. wide, 6 ft. long.

Each compartment has its own radio, mirror, table, washstand with hot & cold running water. At the rear of the coach is a men's lavatory and women's lounge with lavatory, dressing table, mirror, settee. Passengers prepare for bed in perfect privacy, standing up. On duty at all times is a porter. The powerplant, a 6-cyl. Hall-Scott, is at the rear as in most modern buses, is operated by the driver with the aid of compressed-air power-boosters.

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