In the 1960s the majority of bus photography was in black and white, but an increasing number of people were also working with colour. This new album from Mick Webber gathers 100 high-quality photos taken around London during that decade. It takes us back to the days when the RT family of buses was supreme, backed up by Routemasters, RFs, RLHs and the first of the buses bought as part of London Transport's plans for reshaping its bus services.

The London Passenger Transport Board had been in existence just over six years when Britain entered into war with Germany on 3rd September 1939. A year before, measures had been put in place to provide trench shelters, first aid points, and the adaptation of pits in garages to become shelters. Over twenty thousand male staff were called up during the war, and women joined the ranks to fill the void. One hundred and eighty one members of staff were killed whilst on duty, with over eighteen hundred injured. Heroic work, and the will to "get on with it" was the general way of getting things done, summed up by just one of many examples at Athol Street garage, nearer the end of the war. It was the Board's most bombed garage, due to the nearby docks, and after a rocket fell at 6am within 100 yards of the premises blowing out the windows of 25 buses, and causing considerable damage, the staff were able to get all of the buses out on time that day. This book is a largely chronological story of the period, focusing in particular on the behind-the-scenes planning by London Transport, both before the war and during it.

Mick Webber's latest album fills an important gap in book titles currently available on London bus history. All garages owned by London Transport in the fifty years following its formation in 1933 are included, with brief histories and photographs. Also included are plans of each garage and an appendix gives vehicle requirements at July 1933 and June 1983. The following year, London Transport was superseded by London Regional Transport in the move that opened up London's bus routes to independent operators and was to lead to the closure of many garages.

There is a certain atmosphere about night photography. It is much easier now, of course, since the advent of digital cameras that record events that would not have been so easily covered with film. Dragging a tripod around, or looking for a suitable flat topped wall in the right place, was necessary with time exposures, and even then it was often guesswork. Many of the trips after dark with my camera, produced as many failures as successes, but overall, the process was very rewarding. This book contains around 120 black and white and colour views from the early twentieth century up to the present day.

In this album, Mick Webber gathers some beautifully evocative photographs showing buses, trams and trolleybuses of London Transport at work during the period from 1933, when the organisation was formed, until 1969. In doing so he shows changes not only to transport in the capital but to London itself. Whilst primarily a black and white album, there is also a 1950s colour section. Much of the period covered by this book is looked back with nostalgia as a golden age for transport interest, but the times were often far from golden to live in. As the 1930s progressed the threat of war increased, only to become reality at the end of that period. With Britain at war in the first half of the 1940s and struggling to recover in the second half, that decade was difficult to live through for most Londoners. Poverty and slum-dwelling was widespread and it was only in the 1960s that the country fully recovered from the damage suffered by war. This was a period of mass rebuilding - often in a style not appreciated today - and parts of London were to change their appearance dramatically from then on. Many of the places shown in this album are still very recognisable today but others have changed completely.

This new book deals with the primarily busy routes that were very well served by trolleybuses during their 31 years in London. Each chapter includes new research and the pre-war, wartime and post-war operations are all covered, as is - for the first time - the planning of the conversion programme that in due course saw the end of London trolleybus operation. Well illustrated in carefully selected black and white photographs.

This book looks at the very beginnings of motor buses in the early years of the twentieth century. A good selection of photographs is accompanied by articles on different aspects of the story, including the first motor bus routes, driver training, the pioneers, alternatives to the petrol engine including electric buses, and developments up to the first covered top buses.

This album shows the progress in London Transport bus and coach design from the vehicles being operated at the time the organisation came into being up to the time its Country Buses were transferred away. Perhaps surprisingly this is the first book to do this in album form. The progress in designs pictured in the book is punctuated by utility and non-standard types forced on the organisation by the circumstances of war and post-war shortages and by buses that have come to grief in accidents or flooding. Most of the photographs have not been seen before in print.