{"product_id":"a-lifetime-of-london-bus-work-9780903839334","title":"A Lifetime Of London Bus Work","description":"\u003cp\u003eBob Scanlan was 14 when he began work on London General B-type buses in August 1918 and had completed over half-a-century's continuous service when he retired from the Drawing Office at London Transport's Chiswick Works in April 1969.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe had seen the development of the motor bus from almost its original simple form through such famous types as the NS, STL, RT and Routemaster to today's complexity and the nature of the work of keeping buses in good order similarly alter from the simple methods applied at garages in his youth to modern centralised sophistication.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt makes a fascinating and very readable story, both in human terms and in the recounting of the efforts and changing ideas in providing Londoners with reliable and increasingly comfortable vehicles in which to make their daily journeys to work or play. Bob Scanlan was in at almost the beginning of the famous Chiswick Works in 1921 and traces its subsequent development as seen from both the shop floor and, in later years, from the drawing office stool.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardback with dust jacket, 120 pages, black \u0026amp; white photographs\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good\/Very Good with some wear\/tear to DJ\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Transport Publishing Co.","offers":[{"title":"Secondhand (238)","offer_id":40508237185133,"sku":"9780903839334","price":8.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1910\/7111\/products\/9780903839334_bda52641-9930-4324-b197-f48aa636203e.jpg?v=1673373398","url":"https:\/\/rail-books.co.uk\/products\/a-lifetime-of-london-bus-work-9780903839334","provider":"Rail Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}