The Heyday of the London Bus
Author : Kevin McCormack
Publisher :
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 48,76 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Buses
ISBN : 9780711024861
Author : Kevin McCormack
Publisher :
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 48,76 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Buses
ISBN : 9780711024861
Author : Kevin McCormack
Publisher : Specialist Marketing International
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 46,48 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Bus lines
ISBN : 9780711023444
Author : Matthew (Matt) Wharmby
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,13 MB
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1783831731
Vilified as the great failure of all London Transport bus classes, the DMS family of Daimler Fleetline was more like an unlucky victim of straitened times. Desperate to match staff shortages with falling demand for its services during the late 1960s, London Transport was just one organization to see nationwide possibilities and savings in legislation that was about to permit double-deck one-man-operation and partially fund purpose-built vehicles. However, prohibited by circumstances from developing its own rear-engined Routemaster (FRM) concept, LT instituted comparative trials between contemporary Leyland Atlanteans and Daimler Fleetlines.The latter came out on top, and massive orders followed. The first DMSs entering service on 2 January 1971. In service, however, problems quickly manifested. Sophisticated safety features served only to burn out gearboxes and gulp fuel. The passengers, meanwhile, did not appreciate being funnelled through the DMS's recalcitrant automatic fare-collection machinery only to have to stand for lack of seating. Boarding speeds thus slowed to a crawl, to the extent that the savings made by laying off conductors had to be negated by adding more DMSs to converted routes! Second thoughts caused the ongoing order to be amended to include crew-operated Fleetlines (DMs), noise concerns prompted the development of the B20 quiet bus variety, and brave attempts were made to fit the buses into the time-honored system of overhauling at Aldenham Works, but finally the problems proved too much. After enormous expenditure, the first DMSs began to be withdrawn before the final RTs came out of service, and between 1979 and 1983 all but the B20s were sold as is widely known, the DMSs proved perfectly adequate with provincial operators once their London features had been removed. OPO was to become fashionable again in the 1980s as the politicians turned on London Transport itself, breaking it into pieces in order to sell it off. Not only did the B20 DMSs survive to something approaching a normal lifespan, but the new cheap operators awakening with the onset of tendering made use of the type to undercut LT, and it was not until 1993 that the last DMS operated.
Author : Kevin McCormack
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 10,50 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Buses
ISBN : 9780711021211
Author : Kevin Lane
Publisher : Specialist Marketing International
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 17,1 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
Author : London Transport Museum
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,29 MB
Release : 2017-06-07
Category : Buses
ISBN : 9781871829235
"2014 is Year of the Bus. This book is a comprehensive social history of how the London bus has worked in, and for, the capital for the last century and a half. We discuss the design, development and operation of buses in the city and its surrounding countryside, and consider how the bus has served Londoners from all over the world, and shaped London."--Back cover.
Author : John Christopher
Publisher : Story of
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,35 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Routemaster buses
ISBN : 9780752450841
This is the story of one of London's most famous symbols, the London bus. Full of little-known facts and figures, the book includes details of preserved vehicles and collections.
Author : John Hibbs
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 26,91 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Transportation
ISBN :
Covering all aspects of British bus services since 1625, this book examines the evolution of public transport, such as improvements in vehicle technology, the provision of services, names of service providers and some of the odder regulations that govern operators and the travelling public.
Author : Kevin McCormack
Publisher :
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 43,39 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Buses
ISBN : 9780711025813
Author : Malcolm Batten
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 19,74 MB
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1445684047
A lavishly illustrated look at the era of privatisation of London's buses before an all-red livery was imposed.