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Description: | This picture was taken inside an F.S.-type London Transport (L.T.) minibus in 1972 to illustrate the new minibus service.
L.T. introduced the service at the request of the Greater London Council to improve services in the suburbs. The new routes ran in Bromley, Highgate, Stockwell and Enfield. Because L.T. expected only light use in these areas, they used 16-seater buses. However by the mid-1970s, larger B.S.-type buses had been allocated to all the routes.
The popularity of suburban bus routes was probably affected by the economic decline of the early 1970s. With soaring inflation, strikes, and rising petrol prices, private car use declined in London after its boom in the 1960s. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Transport | Temporal: | 11 Sep 1972 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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