The London Bendy Bus: The Bus We Hated
Author | : Matthew Wharmby |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS |
ISBN | : 9781473869424 |
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Author | : Matthew Wharmby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS |
ISBN | : 9781473869424 |
Author | : Matthew Wharmby |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2016-03-30 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1473869439 |
Between 2002 and 2006 six of Londons bus companies put into service 390 articulated bendy buses on twelve routes for transport in London.rnrnDuring what turned out to be a foreshortened nine years in service, the Mercedes-Benz Citaro G buses familiar on the continent and worldwide earned an unenviable reputation in London; according to who you read and who you believed, they caught fire at the drop of a hat, they maimed cyclists, they drained revenue from the system due to their susceptibility to fare evasion, they transported already long-suffering passengers in standing crush loads like cattle and they contributed to the extinction of the Routemaster from frontline service. In short, it was often referred to as the bus we hated.rnrnThis account is an attempt by a long-time detractor of the bendy buses to set the vehicles in their proper context not quite to rehabilitate them, but to be as fair as is possible towards a mode of transport which felt about as un-British as could be.
Author | : Kris Hollington |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2013-03-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1471114562 |
THE TRUTH BEHIND THE BBC’S THREE GIRLS The UK was shocked to its core in May 2012 when a gang of nine men was convicted of the systematic sexual abuse of disadvantaged teenage girls in the Rochdale area. The crimes included counts of rape, aiding and abetting rape, sexual assault and trafficking girls within the UK for sexual exploitation. Yet many childcare experts reckoned these crimes were just the tip of an iceberg of wide scale exploitation occurring across the country. The Deputy Children’s Commissioner Sue Berelowitz said in June 2012 that there ‘isn't a town, village or hamlet in which children are not being sexually exploited’. When this book went to press, a gang of men similar to those convicted in Rochdale stood trial for similar crimes in Oxford. Award-winning journalist Kris Hollingtontells the inside story of some of the most shocking and heartbreaking crimes of recent years, focusing on the Rochdale case but also analysing recent cases in the London area that echo the brutality of organised slavery. He seeks to expose how the British justice system is failing to protect children in the 21st century and to answer the question: ‘What is happening in Britain that means young vulnerable girls can be exploited in this way?’ It is a scandal that cannot be ignored.
Author | : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons |
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Total Pages | : 1236 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Total Pages | : 654 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords |
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Total Pages | : 1384 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Total Pages | : 780 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : English literature |
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Author | : Matthew Wharmby |
Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2016-02-29 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1473869706 |
The Olympian was Leyland's answer to the competition that was threatening to take custom away from its second-generation OMO double-deck products. Simpler than the London Transportcentric Titan but, unlike that integral model, able to respond to the market by being offered as a chassis for bodying by the bodybuilder of the customer's choice, the Olympian was an immediate success and soon replaced both the Atlantean and Bristol VRT as the standard double-decker of the NBC. It wasn't until 1984 that London Transport itself dabbled with the model, taking three for evaluation alongside trios of contemporary double-deckers.The resulting L class spawned an order for 260 more in 1986, featuring accessibility advancements developed by LT in concert with the Ogle design consultancy, but the rapid changes engulfing the organisation meant that no more were ordered. During the 1990s company ownerships shifted repeatedly as the ethos of competition gave way to the cold reality of big business, an unstable situation which even saw London's bus operations broken up.The L class was split between three new companies, but the backlog of older vehicles to replace once corporate interests released funding ensured the buses up to a further decade in service. Finally, as low-floor buses swept into the capital at the turn of the century, Olympian operation at last declined, and the final examples operated early in 2006.This profusely illustrated book describes the diversity of liveries, ownerships and deployments that characterised the London Leyland Olympians' two decades of service.
Author | : Arundhati Roy |
Publisher | : Vintage Canada |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2011-07-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 030737467X |
The beloved debut novel about an affluent Indian family forever changed by one fateful day in 1969, from the author of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER Compared favorably to the works of Faulkner and Dickens, Arundhati Roy’s modern classic is equal parts powerful family saga, forbidden love story, and piercing political drama. The seven-year-old twins Estha and Rahel see their world shaken irrevocably by the arrival of their beautiful young cousin, Sophie. It is an event that will lead to an illicit liaison and tragedies accidental and intentional, exposing “big things [that] lurk unsaid” in a country drifting dangerously toward unrest. Lush, lyrical, and unnerving, The God of Small Things is an award-winning landmark that started for its author an esteemed career of fiction and political commentary that continues unabated.
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Total Pages | : 1692 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Indexes |
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Indexes the Times and its supplements.