Buses in Essex - The 1960s and 1970sPaperback
Buses in Essex - The 1960s and 1970sPaperback This volume starts with London Transport's green Country bus routes, radiating eastwards from Rainham, Epping and Romford. Southend-on-Sea and Colchester…
Specifikacia Buses in Essex - The 1960s and 1970sPaperback
Buses in Essex - The 1960s and 1970sPaperback
This volume starts with London Transport's green Country bus routes, radiating eastwards from Rainham, Epping and Romford. Southend-on-Sea and Colchester Corporation are the municipal companies featured, as well as independents such as Upminster & District and Osborne's, as well as some contractors. The author lived in Romford at this time and a favourite ride was on the 370 Romford-Tilbury Ferry route end-to-end, which started just half a mile from his home at the London Road Green Line Garage forecourt.
Going against the trend, Southend Corporation unusually chose to ignore the all-conquering Atlantean rear-engine type (as far as it could) and operated a few of the last exposed-radiator Leyland PD3s Most of the images are of the traditional half-cab exposed-radiator buses that were then in their last days, being withdrawn from service in some cases just weeks after being photographed.