Aviation Specials – June 2018

THE CELEBRATING A GREAT BRITISH ICON Magazine From £6. VOLUME 5 ROUTES • GARAGES • TYPES • TECHNOLOGY THE ALLURE OF THE FAMOUS R ...

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Celebrating a British icon 3 Editor: Alan Millar Design: Steve Donovan, Leo Gehlcken Authors: Michael H. C. Baker (MHCB), Gavin ...

4 The London Bus The London bus scene A long with red telephone boxes and pillar boxes, black taxis, Big Ben and police officers ...

Celebrating a British icon 5 The London bus scene new requirements. Worse still, labour relations were deteriorating, prompting ...

6 The London Bus T he long awaited arrival into service of the first postwar RT on 10^ May 1947 heralded an extraordinary seven- ...

Celebrating a British icon 7 1932 Leyland Titan, its proper, intended body was completed in April 1939 and RT1 made its first pu ...

8 The London Bus factories in the London area, were contracted as bodybuilders. But even working flat out, neither company could ...

Celebrating a British icon 9 the years had also provided buses and trolleybuses for London. It was asked to supply 1, modified T ...

10 The London Bus 70 Years Ago RIGHT: The first of the Leyland- built RTLs to arrive, in 1948, was Park Royal- bodied RTL501. Th ...

Celebrating a British icon 11 RT1136 to RT1148, and these instantly became my favourite RTs. Logically, there is no reason why o ...

12 The London Bus not arriving from North Wales until February 1951. Such a high number for a bus of what was now an antiquated ...

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14 The London Bus L ike most of the UK, London Transport emerged from World War 2 in not too great a shape. As Michael Baker exp ...

Celebrating a British icon 15 across Central Buses, Country Buses and the Green Line coach operations; this covered all bus crew ...

16 The London Bus resolution of this, on 2 April informed London Transport of the union’s decision to withdraw all labour on 4 M ...

Celebrating a British icon 17 Union of Railwaymen (NUR), which declined the invitation to support its TGWU brothers. Virtually a ...

18 The London Bus I t is rare for a London bus route to be lengthened these days; when change does come, it usually involves a c ...

Celebrating a British icon 19 North of Marylebone Road is the modern-style office block that was once the Abbey National buildin ...

20 The London Bus Park. The minaret and golden dome of the London Central Mosque gleam out from the greenery. The top of the roa ...