British Buses and Coaches in the 1960s

A Panoramic View

Jim Blake

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Pen & Sword Transport
28 August 2021

Buses, trams & commercial vehicles: general interest

British Buses and Coaches in the 1960s, is an overview of the bus and coach scene during a decade of great social and economic change in Britain's history.

This volume looks at the interesting and varied number of bus and coach operators that still existed, before and just after the formation of the National Bus Company in 1968.

Jim Blake has compiled an interesting collection of material from his extensive collection of negatives taken during that time, which give a flavour of how things were at that time of great change.

AUTHOR: Jim Blake was born at the end of 1947, and he soon developed a passionate interest in railways, buses and trolleybuses. In 1965, he bought a colour cine-camera, with which he captured what is now very rare footage of long-lost buses, trolleybuses and steam locomotives. These transport photographs have been published in various books and magazines. Jim also started the North London Transport Society and, in conjunction with the group, he has compiled and published a number of books on the subject since 1977, featuring many of the 100,000 or so transport photographs he has taken over the years.

200 b/w illustrations

By: Jim Blake
Imprint: Pen & Sword Transport
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 282mm, Width: 216mm,
ISBN: 9781473867819
ISBN 10: 1473867819
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 28 August 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Jim Blake was born in December 1947, just before the nationalisation of Britain's railways and London Transport, born and brought up in Canonbury in today's London Borough of Islington, he lived in the heart of London's legendary trolleybus system and also had North London's last trams, which served Kingsway Subway, on his doorstep. This ensured a life long interest in buses, trolleybuses and trams, as well as railways, which most young lads had in the 1950s. He begun transport photography in 1961, subsequently taking over 100,000 still pictures and went on to cover transport subjects with his cine camera in colour during the late 1960s and 1970s. Since 1977 he has had a considerable number of books published covering bus and railway subjects across the country, looking at a wide number of fleets and operations. Much of his work encapsulates a time of great change in the world of transport, with many types of vehicle and chassis types diminishing owing to standardisation. The operators were in themselves also changing and his books reflect the changing transport scene of this interesting period, showing the social changes as well as that of the corporate.