Trolleybus on Craven Park Road, North London, 1958
Still wearing its streamlined wheel spats, London Transport C3 Class trolleybus 291 pictured at the junction of Craven Park Road and Fortune Gate Road, North London in March 1958. The driver's out of the cab and the conductor has just re-pole the bus onto the overhead lines; the bus having stopped just clear of the section-breaker in the overhead; a dead spot in the lines between two 'live' sections. Approximately, each half mile of overhead line was isolated from the next half mile. This was done in case there was an incident that electrically isolated a section, leaving the other sections live.
291 is operating the 660 service from North Finchley to Hammersmith via Golders Green, Childs Hill, Cricklewood, Willesden Green, Craven Park Junction, Harlesden, Acton Vale and Ravenscourt Park. It's interesting to note that the vintage looking 'Booth's Gin' advertisement would have been hand-painted on to the bus by a signwriter, a common practise in those days and a far cry from today's world of flashy, virtual-world, all-over advertising.
New in October 1936, the AEC 664T trolleybus was withdrawn from service 23 years later in August 1959 and sold to George Cohen, a scrap merchant in the same month. The London trolleybus system, once the largest in the world, closed on the evening of 8th May 1962.
The modern day scene: maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=craven+park+london&oe=UTF-8&...
Trolleybus on Craven Park Road, North London, 1958
Still wearing its streamlined wheel spats, London Transport C3 Class trolleybus 291 pictured at the junction of Craven Park Road and Fortune Gate Road, North London in March 1958. The driver's out of the cab and the conductor has just re-pole the bus onto the overhead lines; the bus having stopped just clear of the section-breaker in the overhead; a dead spot in the lines between two 'live' sections. Approximately, each half mile of overhead line was isolated from the next half mile. This was done in case there was an incident that electrically isolated a section, leaving the other sections live.
291 is operating the 660 service from North Finchley to Hammersmith via Golders Green, Childs Hill, Cricklewood, Willesden Green, Craven Park Junction, Harlesden, Acton Vale and Ravenscourt Park. It's interesting to note that the vintage looking 'Booth's Gin' advertisement would have been hand-painted on to the bus by a signwriter, a common practise in those days and a far cry from today's world of flashy, virtual-world, all-over advertising.
New in October 1936, the AEC 664T trolleybus was withdrawn from service 23 years later in August 1959 and sold to George Cohen, a scrap merchant in the same month. The London trolleybus system, once the largest in the world, closed on the evening of 8th May 1962.
The modern day scene: maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=craven+park+london&oe=UTF-8&...