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London Buses in the 1970s: 1975-1979: Fro..., Jim Blake
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- London Buses in the 1970s: 1975-1979: From Crisis to Recovery
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- 147388716X
- EAN
- 9781473887169
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- Hardback
- Date of Publication
- 20190807
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- London Buses in the 1970s: 1975-1979: From Crisis to Recovery
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- 2019
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- Hardcover
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- English
- Book Title
- London Buses in the 1970s: 1975-1979: from Crisis to Recovery
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- Pen & Sword Books LTD
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- Commercial Vehicle
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- 216mm
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Continuing with photographs from 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. AUTHOR: Jim Blake was born at the end of 1947, and he soon developed a passionate interest in railways, buses and trolleybuses. In 1965, he bought a colour cine-camera, with which he captured what is now very rare footage of long-lost buses, trolleybuses and steam locomotives. These transport photographs have been published in various books and magazines. Jim also started the North London Transport Society and, in conjunction with the group, he has compiled and published a number of books on the subject since 1977, featuring many of the 100,000 or so transport photographs he has taken over the years.
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London Buses in the 1970s: 1975-1979: from Crisis to Recovery
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Hardcover
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English
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Commercial Vehicle
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2019
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192 Pages
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282mm
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216mm
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