B.E.T. Group Bus Fleets: The Final Years - Couverture rigide

Blake, Jim

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1473857260 ISBN 13 : 9781473857261

Editeur : Pen & Sword Transport, 2017

Synopsis

This book looks at the wonderful variety of buses and coaches operated by British Electric Traction group fleets in the 1960s, featuring previously unpublished photographs from Jim Blake's extensive archives. Not only did these fleets, which served most of England and Wales, have a splendid variety of British-built buses and coaches with chassis manufactured by the likes of AEC, Crossley, Daimler, Dennis, Guy and Leyland - with bodywork by such firms as Park Royal, Weymann, Metro-Cammell, East Lancs, Northern Counties, Roe, Duple, Plaxton, Willowbrook and Leyland again - but they also had an array of distinctive liveries. Many dated back to the early part of the century when the operators first started bus operation. The smart maroon and cream of East Kent, the dark green and cream of Maidstone & District or the light green and cream of Southdown, for example, were supplemented by ornate fleet-names, often in gold lettering. These three fleets were just a few of those that served seaside towns, and will remind readers of holidays they spent in the 1950s and '60s. Sadly, the years covered by this book are the final years of the BET group, which was taken over by the nationalised Transport Holding Company in late 1967, as a prelude to the creation of the National Bus Company, under which the distinctive liveries of the BET group fleets, and even some of the operators themselves, would disappear. The 1960s also saw the demise of many traditional types of bus that these fleets operated, owing to the introduction of rear-engined double-deckers, such as the Leyland Atlantean and Daimler Fleetline, as well as the spread of one-man operation. Many of the photographs featured in this book show the older types in their final days - pure nostalgia for the transport enthusiast!

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jim Blake was born at the end of 1947, and he soon developed a passionate interest in railways, buses and trolleybuses. In 1961, he began transport photography, and throughout the 1960s and 1970s captured on film what are now very rare scenes of long-lost buses, coaches, trolleybuses and steam locomotives. These photographs have been published in various books and magazines over the past forty-five years, but there remains much unpublished material, which appears in his Pen & Sword books. Jim also started the North London Transport Society and, in conjunction with the group, he compiled and published a number of books on buses, trolleybuses and railways between 1977 and 2013, featuring many of the 100,000 or so transport photographs he has taken over the years.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pen & Sword Transport
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1473857260
• ISBN 13: 9781473857261
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 138
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible