Edinburgh Transport : Annual Report for the year ending 28 May 1969 : Edinburgh Corporation Transport Department : 1969
The front cover to the Department's annual report for 1968/69 shows a long view of Princes Street looking east showing vast numbers of the Corporation's tramway replacement Leyland Titan PD2/20s with lightweight MCW bodywork that it has to be said they got their money's worth from. By 1969 the replacement of this vast fleet, purchased in the mid-1950s, was underway and least two of the new interlopers, mostly Alexander bodied Leyland Atlanteans, soon to be equipped for OPO operation, can be seen here. Amongst the traffic, full of contemporary cars and commercial vehicles, I think I can see on Eastern Scottish bus turning right in the far distance - most likely to be of Bristol manufacturing rather spoiling the otherwise all-Leyland flavour!
The photo, along with one of Lothian Road, was used to illustrate the growing issue of traffic congestion on the Department's schedules. It also shows busy pavements full of shoppers at a time when this was the premier shopping street of the capital.
Edinburgh Transport : Annual Report for the year ending 28 May 1969 : Edinburgh Corporation Transport Department : 1969
The front cover to the Department's annual report for 1968/69 shows a long view of Princes Street looking east showing vast numbers of the Corporation's tramway replacement Leyland Titan PD2/20s with lightweight MCW bodywork that it has to be said they got their money's worth from. By 1969 the replacement of this vast fleet, purchased in the mid-1950s, was underway and least two of the new interlopers, mostly Alexander bodied Leyland Atlanteans, soon to be equipped for OPO operation, can be seen here. Amongst the traffic, full of contemporary cars and commercial vehicles, I think I can see on Eastern Scottish bus turning right in the far distance - most likely to be of Bristol manufacturing rather spoiling the otherwise all-Leyland flavour!
The photo, along with one of Lothian Road, was used to illustrate the growing issue of traffic congestion on the Department's schedules. It also shows busy pavements full of shoppers at a time when this was the premier shopping street of the capital.