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Description: | The photographer's focus in this picture was the post on the right, which two women are just walking past. It was part of the B.E.S.I. (Bus Electronic Scanning Indicator) system trialled by London Transport in the 1960s.
Through B.E.S.I., buses were detected by light beams projected from beacons like the one seen here. The light was projected across the road and passing buses fitted with B.E.S.I. running plates would reflect it back into a scanner. There, the information from the running plate was decoded. Details were then transmitted to the central control room. The system allowed controllers to track the buses' progress.
The R.T.W.-type bus in this photo was running on route 6A and is about to turn onto Bishopsgate. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Transport | Temporal: | 1965 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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