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Author : Michael H. C Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781857945652
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)
Download or read book London Buses, Coaches & Recollections, 1970 written by Michael H. C Baker and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-24 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matthew Wharmby
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1473872960
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)
Download or read book London Buses, 1970–1980 written by Matthew Wharmby and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1970s were among London Transports most troubled years. Prohibited from designing its own buses for the gruelling conditions of the capital, LT was compelled to embark upon mass orders for the broadly standard products of national manufacturers, which for one reason or another proved to be disastrous failures in the capital and were disposed of prematurely at a great loss. Despite a continuing spares shortage combined with industrial action, the old organisation kept going somehow, with the venerable RT and Routemaster families still at the forefront of operations.At the same time, the green buses of the Country Area were taken over by the National Bus Company as London Country Bus Services. Little by little, and not without problems of their own, the mostly elderly but standard inherited buses gave way to a variety of diverted orders, some successful others far from so, until by the end of the decade we could see a mostly NBC-standard fleet of one-man-operated buses in corporate leaf green.
Author : Malcolm Batten
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 144568022X
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)
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 Book excerpt: A terrific range of previously unpublished images of East London buses, including Routemasters, during the 1970s-1980s.
Author : Henry Conn
Publisher : Silver Link
ISBN 13 : 9781857944570
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)
Download or read book Buses Coaches & Recollections 1969 written by Henry Conn and published by Silver Link. This book was released on 2015 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jim Blake
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473887224
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)
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.
Author : Alan (Alan B.) Cross
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780901307675
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)
Download or read book London Bus Recollections written by Alan (Alan B.) Cross and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Wallis
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1398107751
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)
Download or read book Thames Valley Region Buses and Coaches in the 1960s and Early 1970s written by Philip Wallis and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously unpublished photographs documenting buses and coaches around the Thames Valley during this interesting period.
Author : David Christie
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445680262
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)
Download or read book Central London Buses 1967-1987 written by David Christie and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-04-15 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fantastic collection of rare and previously unpublished photographs of buses in our capital London.
Author : Jim Blake
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473887186
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)
Download or read book London Buses in the 1970s written by Jim Blake and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A compilation of photos taken in the difficult period . . . when LT and London Country were plagued with maintenance problems. A valuable record.” —West Somerset Railway Association Continuing with images from transport photographer Jim Blake’s extensive archives, this book examines the second half of the 1970s, when both London Transport and London Country were still struggling to keep services going. This resulted both from being plagued by a shortage of spare parts for their vehicles and having a number of vehicle types which were unreliable—the MB, SM and DMS classes. In 1975, both operators had to hire buses from other companies, so desperate were they. Many came from the seaside towns of Southend, Bournemouth and Eastbourne. This continued until the spares shortage began to abate later in the decade, particularly with London Country. As the decade progressed, the two fleets began to lose their “ancestral” vehicle types. London Country rapidly became “just another National Bus Company fleet,” buying Leyland Atlanteans and Nationals common to most others throughout the country. Having virtually abandoned the awful MB and SM-types, London Transport had to suffer buying the equally awful DMSs well into 1978, but had already ordered replacements for them by that point—the M class Metrobuses and T class Titans—both of which would finally prove successful. However, plans to convert trunk routes serving Central London to one-person operation were largely abandoned. “A very interesting book. The passenger transport crisis in London in the mid-1970s was a major event.” —Miniaturas JM
Author : Stephen Dowle
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445681366
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)
Download or read book British Buses and Coaches in the Late 1970s written by Stephen Dowle and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Dowle offers up a terrific selection of previously unpublished photographs documenting the British bus and coach scene of the late 1970s.
