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Our small team’s office was located in a private apartment in the Centre Heights complex at Swiss Cottage. We enjoyed views from the balcony of the passing traffic in Finchley Road. On a day when I brought my camera to work, I captured two buses on local routes. Folk are in shirt sleeves, a reminder of that year’s long heatwave summer.
AEC Merlin MB641 (AML641H) is picking up passengers on the 268 that still runs between Finchley Road Station and Golders Green, via Hampstead Village. The route was inaugurated in late 1968, using twin-doored Merlins, but these had recently been displaced by single-door examples as seen here. Shorter-length AEC Swifts took over the 268 in 1976.
London Transport’s cull of AEC Merlins was getting under way at this time. Large numbers of the unhappy class were dumped at Radlett airfield, most going for scrap and just a few for further service, notably as stopgaps in Belfast. MB641 was lucky enough to escape the Merlin holocaust and is active in preservation as a unique single-door survivor.
Tiny Ford Transit FS12 (MLK712L) is overtaking MB641 on the C11, one of several routes introduced in October 1972 that required small vehicles to negotiate narrow streets. The C11 duly required larger and sturdier vehicles, and the Ford Transits were replaced later in 1975. FS12 lasted in the LT fleet until the late 1970s.
August 1975
Zorki 4 camera
Agfa CT18 film.
Now I like Scammell vehicles but it has to be said the 3-ton Scammell Townsman is ugly, very ugly. JAR 756D is a 1966 registered Townsman allocated to the Midland Region of British Railways, it probably worked from Curzon Street depot. The vehicle is pictured in Moat Lane Birmingham at a time when the wholesale market was in full swing and parking was where you could, no yellow lines, no restrictions. Most market traders didn't want to hang around, they just wanted to collect their fresh stock and be away to the shops to sell the produce.
Behind the ugly Townsman is an older Scammell Scarab, we also see the 1965 sliding door Ford Transit, a very clean Bedford TK belonging to Nicholls and a VW van, these were popular because the interior floor was the same height as a handcart and boxes of produce would slide straight in.
Peter Shoesmith Circa 1967 (Scammell & Bedford both 1966 reg)
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This Heinkel trojan bubble car appears to have stopped on the Bypass thus gaining Police attention. Has he broken down or just stopped? Was the high speed of the Bypass too much for the little 3 wheeler?
1:76 Scale, OO Gauge diorama.
Cars by Oxford Diecast
Heinkel Trojan
Ford Escort Mk2 Police (Panda) car.
Ford Transit with B12F Strachan body.
New 8/73 to Samuelsons New Transport, London SW1.
Photographed in the Victoria area, operating a shuttle service between Victoria coach station and railway station, 15th September 1973.
M Travel B261 MDL
Former Southern Vectis Ford Transit / Carlyle
Ventnor Buggy
Ventnor (Albert Street)
Circa 1995
Photo by Keith Newton, posted with permission
In very good condition for its age, it's probably still a working vehicle, you don't really see any cherished commercial vehicles of this age.
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Brushfield Street, looking towards Christ Church, around 1984. The 1983 Ford Transit was on the road for exactly ten years.
Scanned from a negative in my collection.
Oxford South Midland 704 - just to prove that NBC started the minibus revolution long before the mid-1980s!. A classic Mk1 Transit with Strachans body although the DP livery must be debatable. Didn't last here long - it passed to SWT in 1977.
FS 29 is seen working route Hampstead Garden Suburb route H2 at Golders Green on 1 April 1986. It is a Ford Transit with Carlyle body conversion, new in November 1985. In 1997 it was bought for preservation and in 2022 is still with the same owner.
Banbridge County Down
Volvo FH12 480 Version Two
New - June 2005
Pictured at a pit stop at Modern Tyre Service, Duncrue Street, Belfast.
An unusual colour scheme for Baird Brothers.
From August 1974 until April 1977, London Country ran a Dial-a-Ride service connecting old Harlow with the New Town. Marketed as 'Pick-Me-Up', five Dormobile-bodied Ford Transits were allocated, numbered FT1-5. Passengers would telephone the despatcher using a free-phone and he would tell you when a bus would turn up. A bus could also be caught in advance by posting a booking card to the Pick-Me-Up Control Cabin (allowing four days notice!).
FT5 is seen outside Adams House in The High in August 1975.
Scanned from a Kodachrome slide in my collection.