Like the railway industry in the nineteenth century, Britain was a
major player in supplying the world with buses, particularly
double-deckers. The principal contributors in the mid-twentieth
century were AEC, Daimler and Leyland Motors. Buses were exported
throughout the world either as complete vehicles or as a chassis
with locally assembled bodywork completing the bus. As early as
1911, Leyland Motors sold five single-deck charabancs to Lisbon
Tramways and three to Cape Town Electric Tramways. It says
something for the endurance of the British-built chassis when
examples of the Daimler CVG in Hong Kong and the AEC Regent III in
Lisbon both managed to attain well over twenty-five years of
service for their respective operators. As London Transport found
itself with a surfeit of serviceable buses in the 1960s, hundreds
of redundant RTs, RTLs and RTWs were snapped up by the Ceylon
Transport Board. Redundant Atlanteans and Daimler Fleetlines found
favour with both KMB and CMB while sixty AEC Swifts saw further
service with the Public Transport Association (PTA) and the
Education Department on the island of Malta. This book features
previously unpublished photographs of British buses in China,
India, South Africa, Portugal and Hong Kong.
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