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This was the first of several buses purchased by these four pioneers of the British bus preservation movement, which included a 1935 Gilford 168SD coach, a Leyland PLSC3 Lion, and their first double-decker, a Northern Counties bodied AEC Renown 6-wheeler which cost the large sum (for the time) of £85.
The museum is operated by the London Bus Preservation Trust and exhibits around thirty-five examples (from its forty+ collection) of London buses, coaches and ancillary vehicles covering 100 years of development of the bus in London including Victorian-era horse-buses, 1920s open-top buses, streamlined 1930s designs and through World War II to ...
Leyland-DAB articulated buses, built by the British-Danish joint venture, Leyland-DAB bus, in Denmark, [5] were the most intensively trialled first-generation vehicles introduced to the UK. Four models of their National bodied buses were imported, and used on extended trial by South Yorkshire PTE in 1979, returned to the lessor in 1981. [ 4 ]
Bus Patronage, Bus policy changes, and growth of car ownership in Great Britain 1950–2020. The post-war Labour government embarked on a programme of nationalisation of transport. Under the Transport Act 1947, the British Transport Commission acquired the bus services of Thomas Tilling, Scottish Motor Traction and the large independent Red ...
The widespread preservation of aircraft in the UK began in the 1960s, when a large number of obsolete military aircraft became available. A push to co-ordinate the movement led to the founding of the British Aviation Preservation Council (BAPC) in 1967; however, very few private collections are represented. Although over 2,500 aircraft survive ...
Campaigners opposed to a new bus route going through part of an orchard are celebrating after some of the trees were granted a provisional tree preservation order (TPO). The planned 8.6-mile (14km ...
The No. 4 Trinity Metro bus slows to a stop near the corner of East Rosedale Street and Evans Avenue, rolling past a new monument that highlights connections between public bus transit and the ...
Lothian Buses Ltd are a major bus company operating in Edinburgh. A number of the vehicles used by Lothian Buses and its predecessors have been preserved. Several of them appear at rallies and events with some travelling around the country. The following is a list of the vehicles now preserved: