London Buses 1970 1980 A Decade Of London Transport And London Country Operations
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London Buses 1970 1980
Author | : Matthew Wharmby |
Publsiher | : Casemate Publishers |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2017-11-30 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9781473872967 |
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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.
London Buses 1970 1980 A Decade of London Transport and London Country Operations
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Author | : Matthew Wharmby |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1473872952 |
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London Buses 1970 1980
Author | : Matthew Wharmby,John S Laker |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2018-01-23 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1473872944 |
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The 1970s were among London Transport's most troubled years. Prohibited from designing its own buses for the grueling 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 organization 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.
East London Buses 1970s 1980s
Author | : Malcolm Batten |
Publsiher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 2018-03-15 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9781445680224 |
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A terrific range of previously unpublished images of East London buses, including Routemasters, during the 1970s-1980s.
The London LS
Author | : Matthew Wharmby |
Publsiher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2018-03-30 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9781473862296 |
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Dissatisfied with the reliability of its AEC Merlin and Swift single-deck buses, London Transport in 1973 purchased six Leyland Nationals for evaluation. Liking what it saw of this ultimate standard product, where even the paint swatch was of Leylands choice, LT took up an option to buy fifty more from a canceled export order and then bought further batches of 110, 30 and 140 to bring the LS class to 437 members by the middle of 1980. A year later the last MBAs and SMSs were replaced on Red Arrow services by sixty-nine new Leyland National 2s.Straightforward but reliable, the LS satisfied London Transports single-deck needs for a decade and a half, often standing in for double-deckers when needed, and then going on to help hold the fort during the tough years of early tendering, during which some innovative LS operations introduced several new liveries and identities. The type served the ten years expected out of it with few worries, only starting to disappear when minibuses came on strength at the end of the 1980s. Although the LS was formally retired by 1992, refurbishment programs gave survivors an extended lease of life, bringing us the National Greenway, the ultimate development of the Leyland National. Most of the Red Arrow National 2s thus became GLSs, and lasted until 2002.Matthew Wharmby is an author, photographer and editor specializing in London bus history. His published books include London Transports Last Buses: Leyland Olympians L 1-263, Routemaster Requiem and Routemaster Retrospective (with Geoff Rixon), London Transport 1970-1984 (with R. C. Riley), The London Titan and The London Metrobus. He has also written many articles for Buses, Bus & Coach Preservation, Classic Bus and London Bus Magazine.
London Transport in the 1970s
Author | : Michael Baker |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Buses |
ISBN | : 0711031304 |
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For London transport, the 1970's started with the creation of London Country as a separate operator, with the National Bus Company assuming responsibility for the former London Transport Country area services. By the end of the decade, two of the classic LT bus designs had operated in public service for the last time.
London Routemasters in the Late 1970s and Early 1980s
Author | : Mike Rhodes |
Publsiher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2020-02-15 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9781445693897 |
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An illustrated look at the Routemaster which is an iconic London bus, recognised around the world, from the late 1970s to early 1980.
London Transport Buses in the 1960s
Author | : Jim Blake |
Publsiher | : Pen and Sword Transport |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2022-11-17 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9781473867871 |
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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.