LONDON HALF-CAB FAREWELL
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (575 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0711033110 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 96 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
More excellent photographs of a time now lost. Kevin's attempt at portraying the buses of London Transport's days of front engine 'half cabs' is a runaway success for this type of genre.It brought back happy memories of driving buses in the early 70s to the late 80s.
This nostalgic new volume provides a primarily pictorial chronicle of the final 30 years of half-cab operation. As a result of changes in the provision of funding for new bus acquisitions in the late 1960s, the production of traditional half-cab double-deckers ceased in 1970. By the late 1970s these buses were becoming increasingly rare, with the exception of the long-lived Routemaster in the Greater London area. However, this was to prove very short-lived as the bus industry quickly settled down after the initial adjustment period. Companies began to realise they could gain a competitive edge by employing conductors, and this resulted in a significant number of operators acquiring second-hand Routemasters. Covering the