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Description: | To promote the 1951 Festival of Britain, four R.T.-type buses went on a tour of Europe. Starting in Norway, the tour included Sweden, Denmark and Holland before ending in France. This photo was taken during a stop in Belgium.
The picture shows the tour staff greeting the crowds. There were seven staff. Frank Forsdick, a foreman at the London Transport Aldenham Works, was in charge of the team. The drivers, who were engineering staff in case of breakdown, were Fred Boxall, Arthur Buckerfield, Arthur Oakes and J Brooks.
Another mechanic, Bill Stephens, and an electrician, George Sharp, also went along. In an interview with the London Transport Magazine, Stephens recalled, "It was a dream come true, we were treated like kings." | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Copyright unknown, Collection of the London Transport Museum | Subjects: | Identity and Icons | Temporal: | Sep 1950 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Creator: | Photographer : Reuter Photos | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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