East Kent Road Car Company Ltd: Services of the Golden Jubilee Era

East Kent Road Car Company Ltd: Services of the Golden Jubilee Era

by Richard Wallace
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 31/05/2019

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East Kent - Services of the Golden Jubilee Era takes the reader on a journey along the routes of all the stage-carriage services operated by East Kent in 1968, just after the Company celebrated its Golden Jubilee in 1966/7, and immediately prior to the National Bus Company (NBC) taking full control. This book reveals the contrasting nature of East Kent's services from rural byways to the seasonal, but very busy routes serving the still-popular resorts around the Kent coast. It includes a comprehensive fleet list and details a specimen allocation of cars to each service on a typical day in 1968; local route maps of all major town services as well as a sectionalised reproduction of the original East Kent network map of 1968 and, finally, a summary of the Centenary celebrations of 2016. It is superbly illustrated by over two hundred and fifty photographs, most not published before, of nearly every bus route as well as most London express services and all the operational garages. The author has worked as a driver and a conductor for EKRCC and part owns an ex-East Kent AEC Regent V.

ISBN:
9781785005589
9781785005589
Category:
Motor cars: general interest
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
31-05-2019
Language:
English
Publisher:
Crowood
Richard Wallace

Richard Wallace was born in Hawkhurst, Kent in 1951. He led a career in transport spanning forty-five years, working on both buses and railways, finishing as European Policy Manager for Britain's passenger train operators. Although now retired he still drives buses and coaches, both commercially and for museums. Managing an offshore scheduling project for the London Underground took him to India in 1989; the magic of the country and its people enticed him back and he has never stopped travelling there, widening his journeys to include Pakistan. He has been lucky enough to ride most of the lines covered in this book. Richard holds a Master's degree in Transport Policy and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Transport.

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