London Buses Before the War
Author : Ken Glazier
Publisher : Capital Transport
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 13,21 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Buses
ISBN : 9781854141828
Author : Ken Glazier
Publisher : Capital Transport
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 13,21 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Buses
ISBN : 9781854141828
Author : Jim Blake
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 23,22 MB
Release : 2018-05-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1473887224
Using photographs from Jim Blake's extensive archives, this book examines the turbulent period in the history of London's buses immediately after London Transport lost its Country Buses and Green Line Coaches to the recently-formed National Bus Company, under their new subsidiary company, London Country Bus Services Ltd.The new entity inherited a largely elderly fleet of buses from London Transport, notably almost 500 RT-class AEC Regent double-deckers, of which replacement was already under way in the shape of new AEC MB and SM class Swift single-deckers.London Transport itself was in the throes of replacing a much larger fleet of these. At the time of the split, it was already apparent that the 36ft-long MB class single-deckers were not suitable for London conditions, particularly in negotiating suburban streets cluttered with cars, and were also mechanically unreliable. The shorter SM class superseded them but they were equally unreliable. January 1971 saw the appearance of London Transport's first purpose-built one-man operated double-decker, the DMS class. All manner of problems plagued these, too.Both operators were also plagued with a shortage of spare parts for their vehicles, made worse by the three-day week imposed by the Heath regime in 1973-4. London Transport and London Country were still closely related, with the latter's buses continuing to be overhauled at LT's Aldenham Works. Such were the problems with the MB, SM, and DMS types that LT not only had to resurrect elderly RTs to keep services going, but even repurchased some from London Country! In turn, the latter operator hired a number of MB-types from LT, now abandoned as useless, from 1974 onwards in an effort to cover their own vehicle shortages. Things looked bleak for both operators in the mid-1970s.This book contains a variety of interesting and often unusual photographs illustrating all of this, most of which have never been published before.
Author : William D. Ward
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,7 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Bus lines
ISBN : 9781871829228
In November every year, on Remembrance Sunday, representatives of the whole nation parade past the Cenotaph in Whitehall, London. The last section to pass is always a group of London transport staff. For decades they marched in the company of a very special vehicle, a bright red open-topped double-decker London bus. This was B-type bus number B43. ... [This] is the story of B43 Ole Bill, and the other London buses that went to war."--Back cover.
Author : David Bownes
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 16,79 MB
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0300245793
Travel under the streets of London with this lavishly illustrated exploration of abandoned, modified, and reused Underground tunnels, stations, and architecture.
Author : Malcolm Batten
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 39,78 MB
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 144568022X
A terrific range of previously unpublished images of East London buses, including Routemasters, during the 1970s-1980s.
Author : Ken Glazier
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 17,78 MB
Release : 1986
Category :
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Author : Malcolm Batten
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 30,15 MB
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1445680408
Malcolm Batten offers a highly illustrated range of photographs looking at East London buses in the 1990s.
Author : Jim Blake
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 18,80 MB
Release : 2015-08-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1473842786
This book looks at an important turning point in the history of the bus industry in Britain. 1967 was the penultimate year to the end of an era, when private and semi-nationalized company's operated the bus networks in this country.After 1967 the network was never the same again, with the formation of the National Bus Company in 1968.The NBC was a very bland organization compared to the colourful bus companies that had existed before nationalization, and many small municipal fleets amalgamated to form Passenger Transport Executives.This comprehensive volume covers a large number of the bus companies throughout the country in 1967 and also has a good readable narrative describing Jim Blake's journeys travelling on these services across Britain.
Author : Malcolm Batten
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 22,45 MB
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1445680688
With a wealth of previously unpublished images, Malcolm Batten observes what has changed in the East London bus scene since the turn of the century.
Author : Kevin Lane
Publisher : Specialist Marketing International
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,28 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Buses
ISBN : 9780711025165
This book provides the reader with a comprehensive guide to all the various types and variations of London Bus used over the past 60 years, since the creation of the London Passenger Transport Board in 1933