LONDON BUSES AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Written by Ken Glazier
Published by Capital Transport
in 1986
ISBN: 0904711773
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- TRANSPORT
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- WORLD WAR II
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
LONDON BUSES AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Written by Ken Glazier.
Stock no. 1827373
1st.
1986.
Hardback.
Large format.
Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
The period between the outbreak of the Second World War and the end of the following decade was one of the most eventful and lacerating times in the affairs of London's passenger road services. This book covers the events of the period up to 1950, when the back had been broken of the task of vehicle renewal and London Transport had recovered sufficiently to re-start the tram replacement programme. Large format. Pictorial glazed boards. B/w photos. ISBN: 0904711773. Pale foxing to endpapers. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-creased and lightly faded to spine, a little browned.
Front cover
Contents
- War is Declared
- Services in the War Years
- The Blitzes
- The Fleet in War
- Make Do and Mend
- Return to Peace
- The Fleet in Early Peace
- Austerity Years Developments
- Appendices:
- 1. Principal Wartime Rout Alterations
- 2. LPTB Classifications of Utility Types
- 3. Wartime Vehicle Withdrawals
- 4. Buses Converted for use with Gas Producers
- 5. Coaches Borrowed by American Forces and Red Cross
- 6. Operators Supplying Hired Coaches
- 7. Vehicles Scheduled for Service, 1939-50
- 8. Motor Buses Licensed, 1939-50