If you make buses wonderful, people will love buses, even to the point of writing and buying books about them …
(London Transport Museum, 14 March 2015)
If you make buses wonderful, people will love buses, even to the point of writing and buying books about them …
(London Transport Museum, 14 March 2015)
Dear God, is that “London’s Heritage” cover in Comic Sans?!?
Hong Kong also has similar books and photo annuals for their buses.
I have seen books on GM buses (both Old Look and New Look), a book on New Flyer buses and on Intercity buses in general. If you can find an audience and a publisher, you can write books on buses.
The history of the UK bus industry has a big enough following to support a huge array of publications devoted to the subject. If you visit Amazon.co.uk, select ‘books’ and search for ‘buses’ you will get nearly 2,000 titles under reference alone.
Famous (to us) old company names like Midland Red, Southdown, Bristol Omnibus, Ribble, Western National all have their followers. And of course London Transport has a big following.
There are also books on specific models of buses such as the Bristol RE which was the most successful of the first generation rear engine single deckers and dated from the 1960s/1970s. Over 4,500 of the buses were built and they operated across the country. I have happy childhood memories of travelling on these buses with their good turn of speed and very distinctive sound effects.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_RE
The UK also has a thriving bus preservation movement with museums and rallies/running days across the country. I found this footage of a trip on a preserved Eastern National Bristol RE to illustrate a typical example of this bus model.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IL0qePBh9A
There are buses in NYC’s transit museum.
And yet they still prefer the Tube.
Even in London.
There’s nothing wrong with great buses. As long as you don’t have a lot of riders… in which case there is something deeply wrong with them and you’d better build a railroad.
Good collection 🙂 i will visit your collection house when i come your city
Is thar for real “London’s Heritage” cover in Comic Sans?!? Yes, it is.KKK
Looking foward to my next visit in London