WHEN LONDON TRANSPORT PREFERRED LEYLAND TO AEC

Title: London’s Pre-War Smaller Classes

Author: Ken Blacker

Publisher: Capital Transport

ISBN: 978-1-85414-473-7

Specification: 285mm x 220mm, 144pp, hardback

Price: £30

AEC may have called itself “the maker of London’s buses” for five decades, but even in the 1930s when London Transport was fresh and young, its relationship with the Southall-based manufacturer was as much about contractual obligation as unconditional product satisfaction.

Had it not guaranteed to buy 90% of its motorbuses from AEC from 1933, it might well have bought many more of them from Leyland Motors, as it did when purchasing trolleybuses.

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