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Book Synopsis Buses in Greater London by : Peter Tucker
Download or read book Buses in Greater London written by Peter Tucker and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2024-02-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavishly illustrated overview of London's buses from the 1990s straight through to the present day.
Book Synopsis London Buses in the 1970s by : Jim Blake
Download or read book London Buses in the 1970s written by Jim Blake and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 The shorter SM class superseded them but they were equally unreliable.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.
Book Synopsis East London Buses: The Twenty-First Century by : Malcolm Batten
Download or read book East London Buses: The Twenty-First Century written by Malcolm Batten and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis East London Buses: 1970s-1980s by : Malcolm Batten
Download or read book East London Buses: 1970s-1980s written by Malcolm Batten and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A terrific range of previously unpublished images of East London buses, including Routemasters, during the 1970s-1980s.
Book Synopsis London's Buses, 1979–1994 by : Andrew Bartlett
Download or read book London's Buses, 1979–1994 written by Andrew Bartlett and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1979, fresh from its general election victory, the Conservative government began formulating plans to deregulate bus services and privatise the companies operating them in England, Scotland and Wales. London was not to be excluded, so from the outset, London Buses was broken up into several areas and from 1985, a tendering system was introduced which permitted other operators to bid for the routes. Opposition from the Labour group at the Greater London Council had to be dealt with – eventually achieved by abolishing it in 1986. However, as each subsequent year passed, promises that deregulation was coming were not met. In late 1992, the privatisation timetable was set, and was ultimately completed at the end of 1994. The issue of deregulation never resurfaced. Copiously illustrated with over 270 photographs, virtually all of which are being published for the first time, this is the story of London Buses over those sixteen tumultuous years. To give greater context to the narrative, annual vehicle acquisition listings show how purchasing policy changed over the period; important route changes, tendering gains and losses and a fleet list for the entire period are also included.
Book Synopsis Buses of Greater London by : R. L. Telfer
Download or read book Buses of Greater London written by R. L. Telfer and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis All Aboard the London Bus by : Patricia Toht
Download or read book All Aboard the London Bus written by Patricia Toht and published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come! Board the London Bus and see the London sights with us. At any time, hop off, explore! Then climb back on, and ride some more… As a family of four spend a day exploring London, fun, child-friendly poems introduce readers to our wonderful capital city, and all its secrets. Well-known landmarks like Buckingham Palace, Big Ben and the London Eye, plus inescapable features like rain and taking tea, all get Patty Toht's witty treatment. Non-fiction facts provide more information about the poetry subjects, while rising star Sam Usher brings them to life with his signature style and humour. This gorgeous celebration of London will be loved by both tourists and those who call the city home.
Book Synopsis Improving London's Bus Services by :
Download or read book Improving London's Bus Services written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis London Buses Around Kent by : Roy Hobbs
Download or read book London Buses Around Kent written by Roy Hobbs and published by . This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In July 1933, the creation of the London Passenger Transport Board saw, for the first time, a unified provider of public transport for the Greater London area. This book looks at LPTB operations in the county of Kent.
Download or read book London's Buses written by and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Public Transport in London by : Greater London Council
Download or read book Public Transport in London written by Greater London Council and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis London Transport's Last Buses by : Matthew Wharmby
Download or read book London Transport's Last Buses written by Matthew Wharmby and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Olympian was Leyland's answer to the competition that was threatening to take custom away from its second-generation OMO double-deck products. Simpler than the London Transportcentric Titan but, unlike that integral model, able to respond to the market by being offered as a chassis for bodying by the bodybuilder of the customer's choice, the Olympian was an immediate success and soon replaced both the Atlantean and Bristol VRT as the standard double-decker of the NBC. It wasn't until 1984 that London Transport itself dabbled with the model, taking three for evaluation alongside trios of contemporary double-deckers.The resulting L class spawned an order for 260 more in 1986, featuring accessibility advancements developed by LT in concert with the Ogle design consultancy, but the rapid changes engulfing the organisation meant that no more were ordered. During the 1990s company ownerships shifted repeatedly as the ethos of competition gave way to the cold reality of big business, an unstable situation which even saw London's bus operations broken up.The L class was split between three new companies, but the backlog of older vehicles to replace once corporate interests released funding ensured the buses up to a further decade in service. Finally, as low-floor buses swept into the capital at the turn of the century, Olympian operation at last declined, and the final examples operated early in 2006.This profusely illustrated book describes the diversity of liveries, ownerships and deployments that characterised the London Leyland Olympians' two decades of service.
Book Synopsis The London Bendy Bus by : Matthew Wharmby
Download or read book The London Bendy Bus written by Matthew Wharmby and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-03-30 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 2002 and 2006 six of Londons bus companies put into service 390 articulated bendy buses on twelve routes for transport in London.rnrnDuring what turned out to be a foreshortened nine years in service, the Mercedes-Benz Citaro G buses familiar on the continent and worldwide earned an unenviable reputation in London; according to who you read and who you believed, they caught fire at the drop of a hat, they maimed cyclists, they drained revenue from the system due to their susceptibility to fare evasion, they transported already long-suffering passengers in standing crush loads like cattle and they contributed to the extinction of the Routemaster from frontline service. In short, it was often referred to as the bus we hated.rnrnThis account is an attempt by a long-time detractor of the bendy buses to set the vehicles in their proper context not quite to rehabilitate them, but to be as fair as is possible towards a mode of transport which felt about as un-British as could be.
Book Synopsis The London Mini and Midi Bus Types by : David Beddall
Download or read book The London Mini and Midi Bus Types written by David Beddall and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London Passenger Transport Board inherited a number of small buses from various independent operators during the early 1930s, followed by the introduction of the Leyland Cub around the same period. The introduction of the big-bus policy saw many of the small buses withdrawn from service. The 1950s saw the introduction of the GS-class Guy Special for use on the lightly-trafficked country routes. More smaller buses entered the London Transport fleet in the form of the Ford Transit and Bristol LH / LHS saloons. The mid-1980s saw a resurgence in small-bus operation as a cost-cutting exercise. Many new types entered service with London Buses Limited and other independent operators. The introduction of these minibuses saw a number of new services introduced to serve previously unserved areas of London. However, the success of these small buses led to their replacement by the larger Dennis Dart midibus. while the introduction of varying lengths of Darts catered for many of London’s needs, other types of mini and midibuses were taken into stock by London based operators for fill in gaps. London’s Mini and midibuses takes a look at the various types of mini and midibuses that have operated on routes in the Greater London area.
Book Synopsis Buses in the Border Towns of London Country 1969-2019 (South of the Thames) by : Malcolm Batten
Download or read book Buses in the Border Towns of London Country 1969-2019 (South of the Thames) written by Malcolm Batten and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2024-03-30 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London Transport was created in 1933 with monopoly powers. Not only did it have exclusive rights to run bus (and tram and trolleybus) services in the Greater London area, it also ran services in a Country Area all around London. Green Line express services linked the country towns to London and in most cases across to other country towns the other side of the metropolis. This country area extended north as far as Hitchin, east to Brentwood, south to Crawley and west to Windsor. But what of the towns at the edge of the country area? Here the green London Transport buses would meet the bus companies whose operations extended across the rest of the counties of Berkshire, Surrey, Kent etc. In some cases the town was at a node where more than one company worked in. Elsewhere, such as at Guildford there were local independent operators who had a share in the town services. It would all change from 1970 when the London Transport Country Area was transferred to the National Bus Company to form a new company named London Country Bus Services. This would later be split into four separate companies. Deregulation in 1985 and privatisation in the 1990s led to further changes in the names and ownership of bus companies. Consolidation since then has seen the emergence of national bus groups – Stagecoach, First Group, Arriva and Go-Ahead replacing the old names and liveries. But retrenchment by these companies has given an opportunity for new independent companies to fill the gaps. This book takes the form of an anti-clockwise tour around the perimeter of the London Country area, south of the Thames featuring a number of key towns starting at Slough and Windsor and ending at Gravesend, illustrating some of the many changes to bus companies that have occurred.
Book Synopsis Whizzy Wheels: London Taxi by : Marion Billet
Download or read book Whizzy Wheels: London Taxi written by Marion Billet and published by Campbell Books. This book was released on 2012-01-25 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A taxi-shaped board book with movable wheels which takes you around the different sites of London.
Book Synopsis Today's London Buses by : Reiss O'Neill
Download or read book Today's London Buses written by Reiss O'Neill and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with color photos, a look at the variety of London’s buses in recent years. Today's London Buses covers the London bus scene of recent years, including pictures of bus types used in the capital on its major services. This volume looks at various routes across London during this period and the variety of vehicles that have been used in that time frame. Some of the services depicted in this book have already changed, or ceased to operate, during the period covered. The author has set out to illustrate, in broad terms, the color and variety of London bus operation during this time of great change to bus services.
