Hall Bros Tyneside-Midlands service timetable 1932 (Extract from the 'Roadway Motor Coach Timetable')

Hall Brothers of South Shields was an early operator of an express service from Tyneside to Coventry. In later years the original service from South Shields via Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Chester-le-Street and Durham was supplemented with a service from South Shields via Sunderland, West Hartlepool, Billingham and Stockton-on-Tees the two services merging at Darlington and sharing a common route to Coventry via Doncaster, Nottingham, Leicester etc.

In the late 1960s the company sold the business to Barton Transport of Nottingham who continued to operate the service using service numbers X81 and X82.

The timetable remained very much the same for many years with a journey time of 10 hours 30 minutes in 1932 and 10 hours 25 minutes in 1951. By 1982 this had been reduced to 8 hours 55 minutes. Overnight services were added later operating on Friday and Sunday nights.