There is plenty to hold the interest of both bus aficionados and battle hardened pub quiz addicts too: the link between Barker & Dobson and Everton Football Club for example; the occasion that merited providing carpeted bus aisles; the fate of the ‘naked’ Routemaster. Or why there was a general bus shortage in the 70s; the identity of London’s oldest bus route (and its most unreliable); graphic evidence of the Routemaster’s (literal) tipping point (including the guinea pigs’ view from the top deck); which manufacturers were licensed to build them; what the underside of an in-service vehicle looked like before its routine steam spa; and photographic evidence of their famed flexibility - from Worzel Gummidgesque body transplants at the Aldenham Works to the designers’ response to the perennial problem of high demand routes with low bridges (the RLH)!
All this and much, much more. What Londoner could resist?

Paul Henry Stanton

Metropolitan buses are traditionally coloured red for the inner regions, and dark green for the outer fringes. Some have been repainted for special reasons and all transport enthusiasts will enjoy this nostalgic look back.

This England Autumn 2016