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Author : John A.S. Hambley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780953314638
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (146 download)
Download or read book London Transport Buses and Coaches 1958 written by John A.S. Hambley and published by . This book was released on 1999-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jim Blake
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 1473867886
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book London Transport Buses in the 1960s written by Jim Blake and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2022-10-21 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as life in Britain generally changed dramatically during the 1960s, so did London Transport's buses and their operations. Most striking was the abandonment of London's trolleybuses, once the world's biggest system, and their replacement by motorbuses. Begun in 1959 using surplus RT-types, it was completed by May 1962 using new Routemasters, designed specifically to replace them. They then continued to replace RT types, too. Traffic congestion and staff shortages played havoc with London Transport's buses and Green Line coaches during the 1960s, one-man operation was seen as a remedy for the latter, shortening routes in the Central Area for the former. Thus the ill-fated "Reshaping Plan" was born, introducing new O.M.O. bus types. These entered trial service in 1965, and after much delay the plan was implemented from September 1968 onwards. Sadly, new MB-types, also introduced in the Country Area, soon proved a disaster! Unfortunately, owing to a government diktat, Routemaster production ended at the start of 1968, forcing LT to buy "off-the-peg" vehicles unsuited to London operation and their in-house overhaul procedures. The decade ended with the loss of LT's Country Area buses and Green Line coaches to the National Bus Company. Photographer Jim Blake began photographing London's buses towards the end of the trolleybus conversion program in 1961 and continued dealing with the changing scene throughout the decade. He dealt very thoroughly with the "Reshaping" changes, and many of the photographs featured herein show rare and unusual scenes which have never been published before.
Author : Jim Blake
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 1473867835
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book British Buses & Coaches in the 1960s written by Jim Blake and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pictorial history of buses and coaches of the period, drawn from a British transport photographer’s vast collection. British Buses and Coaches in the 1960s is an overview of the bus and coach scene during a decade of great social and economic change in Britain’s history. This volume looks at the interesting and varied number of bus and coach operators that still existed, before and just after the formation of the National Bus Company in 1968. With around 300 photos, Jim Blake has compiled an informative volume of material from his extensive collection of negatives taken during that period, which give a flavor of how things were at that time of great transformation.
Author : Ernest John Smith (Writer on Transport.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (314 download)
Download or read book The ABC of London Transport Buses and Coaches written by Ernest John Smith (Writer on Transport.) and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John A.S. Hambley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780953314645
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (146 download)
Download or read book London Transport Buses and Coaches: 1959 written by John A.S. Hambley and published by . This book was released on 2000-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John A. Hambley
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ISBN 13 : 9780953314621
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (146 download)
Download or read book London Transport Buses and Coaches 1957 written by John A. Hambley and published by . This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John A. S. Hambley
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ISBN 13 : 9781897817452
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (174 download)
Download or read book London Transport written by John A. S. Hambley and published by . This book was released on 1994-08-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : S. L. Poole
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (81 download)
Download or read book London Transport Buses and Coaches written by S. L. Poole and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : S. Steinberg
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230270891
Total Pages : 1696 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Statesman's Year-Book written by S. Steinberg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 1696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Author : John A.S. Hambley
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ISBN 13 : 9781901394047
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)
Download or read book London Transport Buses and Coaches written by John A.S. Hambley and published by . This book was released on 1997-12-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : S.L. Poole
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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book ABC London's Transport written by S.L. Poole and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The ABC of London Transport Buses and Coaches written by and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : S. L. Poole
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (314 download)
Download or read book The ABC of London's Transport written by S. L. Poole and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John A. S. Hambley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781897817827
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (178 download)
Download or read book London Transport written by John A. S. Hambley and published by . This book was released on 1996-03-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : S. L. Poole
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (314 download)
Download or read book The ABC of London Transport Buses and Coaches written by S. L. Poole and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jim Blake
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 1473857171
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book British Independent Bus and Coach Operators written by Jim Blake and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2020-08-19 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1960s, a large number of independent bus and coach fleets existed, which varied enormously in size and scope of operation. They ranged from major operators such as Barton Transport (Nottinghamshire); Lancashire United and West Riding who operated stage carriage services as well as coach fleets; or Wallace Arnold Tours of Leeds, a major coach touring company in Britain and Continental Europe; to small operators who possessed just a handful of vehicles. The latter were sometimes involved only in private hire work, for such things as outings to sporting events or theaters, school or industrial contracts or often a combination of both. Smaller operators were based throughout the country, sometimes in tiny villages but also in the heart of large cities. Often the smaller operators bought redundant buses and coaches from major operators, whether BET, BTC (Tilling) or municipal concerns, or London Transport. Many got bargains from the latter, with surplus RT and RTL double-deckers sold following the disastrous bus strike and service cuts of 1958. Conversely, redundant vehicles bought by independent fleets often brought types that came from as far away as Scotland to London and the south east. In the 1960s, the oldest buses and coaches with independent fleets were those employed on school or industrial contracts. These were not subject to the rigorous tests governing those carrying fare-paying passengers, so could be kept going until they were literally falling apart! These were known as non-PSVs, i.e. non-public service vehicles. On the other hand, some very small independent fleets, often with the title Luxury Coaches, took great pride in their fleets. They would purchase new coaches every two or three years and keep them in immaculate condition. The net result was that British independent bus and coach operators in the 1960s had a fascinating variety of chassis and body makes and styles, as well as liveries. This book shows many of these as they were between fifty and sixty years ago.
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