A colourful capture of capital classics
Title: London’s Buses – An Ever Changing Scene
Author: Andrew Wiltshire
Publisher: Coastal Shipping Publications
ISBN: 978-1-902953-91-5
Specification: 195mm x 245mm, 80pp, hardback
Price: £16
Andrew Wiltshire’s latest colour album for Coastal Shipping provides a good photographic breeze through the familiar story of the London bus from the 1960s to the present day. An era from the RT to the BYD battery electric double-decker, with the colourful early years of route tendering in the 1980s and 1990s along the way.
Some of the best images are by his late father John, including an RTL double-decker in 1964, an early DMS-class Daimler Fleetline in one of the short-lived applications of red and white to the type and a Routemaster captured in sunshine as it skirted Hyde Park beneath a brooding sky.
This and other sources have yielded such other sights as the red XA-class Atlanteans and green XF Fleetlines, the latter during on of their periods on test on a red bus route in Highgate. There also are views of red demonstrators in the shape of the ex-Leeds Daimler CVG6 that Dennis fitted with the Gardner 6LXB/Voith driveline for the Dominator, a Metro-Scania single-decker and a…
