BUS STOP
Written by Gavin Booth
Published by Ian Allan
in 1969
BUS STOP
Written by Gavin Booth.
Stock no. 808706
1st.
1969.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
An anthology of buses. Light tan cloth boards, silver title to spine. Colour & b/w photos. Minor foxing to top edge of text block. Small, neat inscription in ink to front endpaper. A few pale, minor foxspots. Pictorial wrapper is lightly browned with a small pin hole to rear vertical edge.
Front cover
Contents
- Some of the contents (too many to list):
- The Years to 1918: Laying the Foundations by Chas. S. Dunbar
- 1919-1928: Prelude to Control by John F. Parke
- 1929-1939: The Road Traffic Act and After by James FitzJames
- 1939-1945: The Bus At War by A. Alan Townsin
- 1946-1950: The Slow Recovery by J.M. Aldridge
- 1951-1960: Prosperity and Problems by K.W. Swallow
- The 1960s: Changes All Round by Gavin Booth
- The Future: The Next Transport Age by George Perry
- History Repeats Itself by W. Heath Robinson
- Then There Were Nine by Gavin Booth
- Lost Causes of the Bus Industy by A. Alan Townsin
- In Quotation Marks 1
- A Costly Failure
- The Atlantean Appears
- Busman's Holiday by Tony Hogg
- Background to the Bus Industy by R.L. Iles
- By Any Other Name by J.E. Dunabin
- Sampling the Sea Breezes
- The Change by H. Webb
- Lord Egremont and the Phantom Motorbus by Atticus
- In Quotation Marks 2
- Day Out by K.C. Blacker
- Country Conductor by R.L. Grieves
- Seeing Niagara From A London Bus
- Where Have All The Buses Gone?
- By Motor Charabanc to John O'Groats
- Buses in Miniature by Robin Hannay
- It's Quicker by Bus by Kingsley Amis
- etc etc