The Golden Age of British Buses
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Coaching in the Fifites
The 1950s were the best years for the coaching business in Britian. During the austeritry years new cars were hard to come by but with full employment there was more disposable income available to spend on holidays so the coach tour business blossemed. Some operators, notably Southdown (which by the end of the 1950s was the UK's biggest coach operator with a fleet of over 400 coaches) even started offering tours in Europe. The pictures here were taken by Ron Craigen while shooting travelogues for British Transport Films.
Happy passengers on a Tillings coach tour. (July 1956)
The Tillings Bristol coach in which our happy passengers are touring. (July 1956)
Tillings Bristol LS6B with ECW later style bodywork (as used on MW types).
New in 1955 it passed via Eastern National to West Yorkshire in 1965
who exchanged its original Bristol engine for a Gardiner 6LW type.
It was sold to Thistle of Doncaster in 1971 and went to a dealer in 1973. (July 1956)