Publisher Description

This is a colour album of London Buses concentrating mainly on the 1970s which was the first decade since London Transport's inception in 1933 to feature a large number of buses on London streets which were not painted in the mainly all-red (or in a few cases, all-green) livery with which people are familiar. Vehicles in the traditional London liveries have not been ignored but many of the pictures depict this remarkably colourful era and often against the backdrop of famous or historically interesting landmarks which the author has been able to describe. As far as is known, none of the photographs has been published before, and the vast majority were taken by one photographer, sadly now deceased, who had the foresight to compose his picture well. The author is a well-known London Bus enthusiast and this is his 34th transport book and second for Pen & Sword.

Author Biography

Kevin McCormack is a life-long transport enthusiast whose interest began with collecting numbers of steam engines, London buses and civil aircraft. Always more interested in the old rather than the new, Kevin was also an enthusiastic photographer at a young age and then gravitated into the world of preservation, starting with an Austin Seven car purchased for GBP5 in 1965, which he still drives today. Kevin's is a regular steward at the London Bus Museum at Brooklands and a director of the Online Transport Archive, a repository for transport films and photographs donated or bequeathed to it. In 1992, Kevin produced his first book containing colour photographs from his collection, never expecting to become a prolific author.

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