London - Edinburgh Two-Day Service : Season 1952 : coach travel leaflet : British Transport Commission - Scottish Omnibuses Ltd. : Edinburgh : 1952 : cover
The Edinburgh based bus and coach operator Scottish Omnibuses Ltd. was in 1952 a division of the nationalised British Transport Commission and technically the holding company for the nationalised concern of the old Scottish Motor Traction Co. Ltd. and its subsidiaries. The buses and coaches it directly operated often continued to use the old SMT fleetname or that of Scottish Omnibuses until 1961/63 when the holding element of the company was transferred to what was to become the Scottish Bus Group and later the Scottish Transport Group. At that point SOL adopted Eastern Scottish as its fleetname.
For many years the company operated a variation on its trunk Edinburgh express coach services; this was a more leisurely two-day service that gave an opportunity for sightseeing in pre-motorway days and involved an overnight hotel stop. Run as both an East and West Coast version the overnight stop was in York for the former and Chester for the latter. Whereas the East Coast route was basically along the old A1 with a deviation through Cambridge the West Coast appears to have been altogether more scenic running via Henley, Oxford, Stratford upon Avon, Warwick, Lichfield and then on to the Lake District before crossing the Border at Gretna Green.
The basic artwork on this leaflet was also used, in a different colourway, for the 1952/53 Express Edinburgh - London services and features a representation of the 1951/2 AEC Regal IV with Alexander coachwork batch of vehicles.
London - Edinburgh Two-Day Service : Season 1952 : coach travel leaflet : British Transport Commission - Scottish Omnibuses Ltd. : Edinburgh : 1952 : cover
The Edinburgh based bus and coach operator Scottish Omnibuses Ltd. was in 1952 a division of the nationalised British Transport Commission and technically the holding company for the nationalised concern of the old Scottish Motor Traction Co. Ltd. and its subsidiaries. The buses and coaches it directly operated often continued to use the old SMT fleetname or that of Scottish Omnibuses until 1961/63 when the holding element of the company was transferred to what was to become the Scottish Bus Group and later the Scottish Transport Group. At that point SOL adopted Eastern Scottish as its fleetname.
For many years the company operated a variation on its trunk Edinburgh express coach services; this was a more leisurely two-day service that gave an opportunity for sightseeing in pre-motorway days and involved an overnight hotel stop. Run as both an East and West Coast version the overnight stop was in York for the former and Chester for the latter. Whereas the East Coast route was basically along the old A1 with a deviation through Cambridge the West Coast appears to have been altogether more scenic running via Henley, Oxford, Stratford upon Avon, Warwick, Lichfield and then on to the Lake District before crossing the Border at Gretna Green.
The basic artwork on this leaflet was also used, in a different colourway, for the 1952/53 Express Edinburgh - London services and features a representation of the 1951/2 AEC Regal IV with Alexander coachwork batch of vehicles.