Title: The Pride of Bucks – Next Destination
Author: Neil Lamond
Publisher: Hawkes Design & Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-9998335-3-4
Specification: 220mm x 165mm, 152pp, softback
Price: £16.99
Amersham & District (Reviews, September), telling the Amersham garage story this time from the days of that A&D company through London Transport and London Country to its eventual demise in 1992.
He tells it partly through the imagined and recorded reminiscences of former drivers and illustrates it with a liberal selection of photographs of the many different bus types operated there, including the seemingly random allocation of assorted makes in the first months after London Transport assumed control in November 1933.
This is a social history as well as an enthusiast-pleasing description of the buses and routes that they operated. Particularly enlightening are some of his insights into the terms and conditions on which crews were employed.
In 1933, pretax pay for a 48hr week ranged from £3 for conductors to £4 for a Green Line coach driver, with the opportunity to work overtime. So in 1934 when Green Line driver Redvers Frank Mayo was fined £3 for speeding, that was a huge hit on his income. The fine was the eq…
