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British-Built Buses Abroad in the 1980s Mike Rhodes

British-Built Buses Abroad in the 1980s By Mike Rhodes

British-Built Buses Abroad in the 1980s by Mike Rhodes


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Previously unpublished images of British buses in Canada, Macau, India South Africa, Portugal and Hong Kong.

British-Built Buses Abroad in the 1980s Summary

British-Built Buses Abroad in the 1980s by Mike Rhodes

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 This book features previously unpublished photographs of British buses in China, India, South Africa, Portugal and Hong Kong.

About Mike Rhodes

Mike Rhodes hails from Preston and became interested in both road and rail transport from an early age. He has published several books and has been photographing buses since 1974.

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NGR9781445690209
9781445690209
1445690209
British-Built Buses Abroad in the 1980s by Mike Rhodes
New
Paperback
Amberley Publishing
2019-06-15
96
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