Transports of delight
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iihe Hawk has long wondered why some men take such an obsessive interest in buses, especially as a good many fans have never driven one.
Now, a new book, The Girl in the Street or The Bedside Bus Book by Robert E Jowitt, presents a fascinating new perspective.
It claims to offer "30 years — 1959-1989 — of street scenes with buses, trams, trolleybuses and feminine fashions in Britain and Europe", and boasts of being the most comprehensive collection... of Robert E Jowitt's renowned photographs of transport enhanced by young ladies".
Plenty of bumpers, wide-bodied models and double deckers included no doubt — not to mention minis. Remember, you read it first in the Commercial Model.