Street & road scenes

Buzzer


Cash being loaded at the bank and transported to the GWR works in Swindon on payday.

Suedehead:
01

Cash being loaded at the bank and transported to the GWR works in Swindon on payday.

Dixon of Dock Green and inspector Barlow watching. :smiley:

remy:

Suedehead:
01

Cash being loaded at the bank and transported to the GWR works in Swindon on payday.

Dixon of Dock Green and inspector Barlow watching. :smiley:

And George Raft :slight_smile:

Buzzer

Buzzer:
Buzzer

I would say more like 1936, or quite possibly 1946 rather than 1956…

I would say that’s the old London Bridge that was dismantled and sent out to Lake Havasu in America.

Despite all the rumours that the Yank millionaire who bought it, thought that he had purchased Tower Bridge, well that was apparently an urban myth.

ERF-NGC-European:

Buzzer:
Buzzer

I would say more like 1936, or quite possibly 1946 rather than 1956…

first routemaster was’nt built till 1954 so deffo 1956…

m.a.n rules:

ERF-NGC-European:

Buzzer:
Buzzer

I would say more like 1936, or quite possibly 1946 rather than 1956…

first routemaster was’nt built till 1954 so deffo 1956…

Where is the Routemaster in that pic?

m.a.n rules:

ERF-NGC-European:

Buzzer:
Buzzer

I would say more like 1936, or quite possibly 1946 rather than 1956…

first routemaster was’nt built till 1954 so deffo 1956…

Those look like London Transport STLs to me; two or three generations before Routemasters. As Valkerie suggests, there are no Routemasters there!

my apologies, they all look the same to me :blush: …

There aren’t any FX3 taxis in shot either which by 1956 would have been the majority in use.

cav551:
There aren’t any FX3 taxis in shot either which by 1956 would have been the majority in use.

That’s true. I remember what traffic looked like in the mid-'50s and cars and vans from the '20s were comparatively rare (note the ancient van in the bottom right hand corner for instance). This picture has several. The SLT facing us is one of the later ones and it appears to have a masked nearside headlamp (or just a broken one) so it may well be a 1946 picture taken just after the war finished.

What’s a SLT ?.. TIA.

m.a.n rules:
What’s a SLT ?.. TIA.

It was a type of double-decker AEC built for LGOC and then London Transport until 1939. All London bus types were given a code (SLT in this case). Later on Routemasters were given the letters RM.

ERF-NGC-European:

m.a.n rules:
What’s a SLT ?.. TIA.

It was a type of double-decker AEC built for LGOC and then London Transport until 1939. All London bus types were given a code (SLT in this case). Later on Routemasters were given the letters RM.

Do you not mean STL? I’ve never heard of an SLT bus although the first Routemaster did have the reg no SLT56.

Dennis Javelin:

ERF-NGC-European:

m.a.n rules:
What’s a SLT ?.. TIA.

It was a type of double-decker AEC built for LGOC and then London Transport until 1939. All London bus types were given a code (SLT in this case). Later on Routemasters were given the letters RM.

Do you not mean STL? I’ve never heard of an SLT bus although the first Routemaster did have the reg no SLT56.

Yes, you’re right: I do mean STL :blush: (put it down to fat finger syndrome :laughing: ) I did in fact write STL further up the page .

Second bus heading towards the camera is a ‘Bluebird’ LT ?

Buzzer

m.a.n rules:
What’s a SLT ?.. TIA.

Sausage lettuce and tomato sandwich!

David