Bus Operators 1970
Author: Gavin Booth
Publisher:
Published: 2000-01
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780711030336
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Gavin Booth
Publisher:
Published: 2000-01
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780711030336
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Gavin Booth
Publisher:
Published: 2006-04-01
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780711030343
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Gavin Booth provides a snapshot of the great variety of buses operating in the South West of England at the start of the 1970s. It covers municipal operators in the region, subsidiaries of the National Bus Company and major independents.
Author: Jim Blake
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2018-05-30
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1473887224
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 The shorter SM class superseded them but they were equally unreliable.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: Malcolm Batten
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2019-11-15
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 1445694883
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With rare and previously unpublished images of the mainland national bus company fleets around Wessex.
Author: Gavin Booth
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780711030350
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Providing a snapshot of the great variety of buses that operated in Wales and the English counties of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, Staffordshire and Worcestershire in the early 1970s, this book looks back to an era when the British bus and coach industry was radically different to that of today.
Author: Gavin Booth
Publisher: Ian Allan Publishing
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780711032026
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This title will appeal to those nostalgic for the period before the arrival of corporate identity and garish new liveries and provides useful reference material for all those recreating the era in model form and those involved in bus preservation.
Author: Henry Conn
Publisher: Silver Link
Published: 2012-05-01
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781857943979
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The more than 150 photographs in this ninth volume in the series were taken between 1951 and 1978. The majority are in colour and have never before been published. Covering all the major bus, tram and trolleybus operators in the area, together with a few smaller but well-known companies.
Author: Henry Conn
Publisher: Silver Link
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781857943887
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Covering all the major bus and trolleybus operators in the South East and Anglian area, together with a few smaller companies, most of the pictures show the buses in pre-National Bus Company and Passenger Transport Executive liveries. The more than 150 photographs were taken between 1951 and 1978 and mostly have never been published.
Author: Philip Wallis
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2023-03-15
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 1398107751
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Previously unpublished photographs documenting buses and coaches around the Thames Valley during this interesting period.