Essential viewing for every british bus and transport enthusiast, the 2008 review features the bus scene in doncaster, blackpool, sheffield and edinburgh, classic buses from london, leeds, bradford and ipswich, a preservation update from the south yorkshire transport trust, a look at open-top buses in london and on the east coast and a report on the massive sandtoft gathering featuring buses and trolley buses. genre: documentary release date: 3rd november 2008 year of production: 2008 running time: 70 min cat no: 130760 barcode: 5019322307600 no disc: 1 certification: e format: dvd.
See offerA celebration of the golden age of the british bus the 1950s and 1960s are widely considered the golden age for britain's buses. with impeccable service, and drivers and conductors that had real pride in their work, these buses had style, character and individuality, with the iconic red london bus being famous worldwide, and many other varieties of fleets and colours across the nation.
See offerThe buses on britain's roads went through a period of great change between 1950 and 1986. in 1950 the bus manufacturers were at last recovering from the effects of the second world war, and had new and innovative designs to offer.
See offerLike the railway industry in the nineteenth century, britain was a major player in supplying the world with buses, particularly double-deckers. the principal contributors in the mid-twentieth century were aec, daimler and leyland motors.
See offerFrom 1940 until the mid-1970s britain supplied portugal with many of its bus chassis. in the capital city of lisbon, the local operator was ccfl, which was the first buyer of heavyweight british-built bus chassis.
See offerRoaring through the millennium into the twenty-first century we find the transport act 2000 that allows for increased cooperation between local authorities and operators, something that had not been allowed previously under competition legislation. increasingly through the 2000s local authorities and county councils are taking responsibility for funding local bus services.
See offerAfter the upheavals of the 1980s, with the split up of the national bus company, the 1990s saw further changes. the former nbc companies were now private companies, technically ?
See offerThe 1980s was a decade of change in the bus industry. 1980 itself saw the market analysis project (map), which, although primarily aimed at subsidiary companies of the nbc in an attempt to recast local bus networks and identify which services would require local authority subsidy, did also involve independent operators.
See offerThe 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.
See offerThe photographs in this volume were taken between 1951 and 1978. covering all the major independent bus operators in the area, most of the pictures show the buses in pre-national bus company and passenger transport executive liveries.
See offerThe provincial bus operations of britain underwent great upheavals following legislation enacted in 1969. an expanded state-owned sector had merged the tilling and bet groups to form the national bus company.
See offerIn the 1970s the main uk bus groups were the national bus company, the scottish bus group, the passenger transport executives and various council-owned concerns. today we have stagecoach, first and arrival, plus several smaller groups,with just a handful of councils still owning bus operations.
See offerThe 1980s were some of the most tumultuous years for the british bus industry. the thatcher government, in power throughout the decade, brought about privatization of the national bus company and the scottish bus group.
See offerBy 1945, at the end of a long war, britain was desperate for new buses and coaches. and, by the time the government permitted bus production again an almost insatiable demand had built up, and many companies new to making buses came into the business.
See offerBritish 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.
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