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Buses in Essex - The 1960s and 1970s (Paperback)
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Buses in Essex - The 1960s and 1970s (Paperback)
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This volume starts with London Transport's green Country bus
routes, radiating eastwards from Rainham, Epping and Romford. The
author lived in Romford at this time and a favourite ride was on
the 370 Romford-Tilbury Ferry route end-to-end, which started just
half a mile from his home at the London Road Green Line Garage
forecourt. Southend-on-Sea and Colchester Corporation are the
municipal companies featured, as well as independents such as
Upminster & District and Osborne's, as well as some
contractors. Most of the images are of the traditional half-cab
exposed-radiator buses that were then in their last days, being
withdrawn from service in some cases just weeks after being
photographed. Going against the trend, Southend Corporation
unusually chose to ignore the all-conquering Atlantean rear-engine
type (as far as it could) and operated a few of the last
exposed-radiator Leyland PD3s built in 1968. With his wonderfully
evocative photography capturing an interesting and unique scene,
David Christie offers a nostalgic and fascinating snapshot of the
area in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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