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MARKET for new buses and ;hes in Britain has gone ugh many turns and twists the past 15 years, with mass ;lining by PTEs and London Isport in the Seventies nmeting to depressingly low ths in the Eighties.
this new book, The British Today and Tomorrow (Ian n; £6.95) Gavin Booth charts strange course this has n, with Leyland having a
r monopoly of that huge
ket to five manufacturers sing the diminishing demand iouble-deckers today.
also looks at the steeper me in demand for single < city buses and considers le of the mistakes made )g the way.
s any student of annual sales res can testify, the decline in land for buses has been nter balanced by a growth in land for coaches, with orted and British vyweights ousting the iliar lightweights from the ie. A graph, one of four at back of the book, spells out effect most clearly.
he book is amply illustrated buses which have ceeded, failed or just ripened over the period, and resents an intelligent and :ling between the lines. informative assesment of a period many may just have taken for granted.
/an Allan, Terminal House, Shepperton, Surrey TW17 8AS. Price £6.95.