1966
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When the Post Office Tower (now known as the BT Tower after the privatisation of the GPO) was opened in London in 1966 it was, until 1980, the tallest building in the capital and it is still a very visible landmark on the city’s skyline. Built primarily to allow microwave based transmission of phone and…
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When the Post Office Tower (now known as the BT Tower after the privatisation of the GPO) was opened in London in 1966 it was, until 1980, the tallest building in the capital and it is still a very visible landmark on the city’s skyline. Built primarily to allow microwave based transmission of phone and…
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When the Post Office Tower (now known as the BT Tower after the privatisation of the GPO) was opened in London in 1966 it was, until 1980, the tallest building in the capital and it is still a very visible landmark on the city’s skyline. Built primarily to allow microwave based transmission of phone and…
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When the Post Office Tower (now known as the BT Tower after the privatisation of the GPO) was opened in London in 1966 it was, until 1980, the tallest building in the capital and it is still a very visible landmark on the city’s skyline. Built primarily to allow microwave based transmission of phone and…
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When the Post Office Tower (now known as the BT Tower after the privatisation of the GPO) was opened in London in 1966 it was, until 1980, the tallest building in the capital and it is still a very visible landmark on the city’s skyline. Built primarily to allow microwave based transmission of phone and…
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From Flickr: “Daimler of Coventry, 1896 – 1966 book; Fleetlines for country routes” by mikeyashworth
From the rather fine 1966 book produced by Daimler to commemorate their 70 years of production. A view in the Derbyshire village of Repton showing a Northern Counties bodied Fleetline operated by the famous independent operators, Blue Bus Services (Tailby & George Ltd.) of Willington. via Flickr https://flic.kr/p/Pnx6mK
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From the rather fine 1966 book produced by Daimler to commemorate their 70 years of production. Covenrty would have been mighty pleased to get an order from Midland Red (BMMO) as for many years that Bearwood, Birmingham based company had built their own vehicles and this marked a real shift in policy for the ‘Midland…
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From the rather fine 1966 book produced by Daimler to commemorate their 70 years of production. Here in the company’s home city, Coventry, one of the many Daimlers unsurprisingly operated by the municipal operator Coventry Corporation Transport and in their attractive livery. The 15 is loading in the midst of the post-war reconstruction and shows…
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From the rather fine 1966 book produced by Daimler to commemorate their 70 years of production. This page is dedicated to their biggest customer – just up the road from Coventry, the City of Birmingham. The municipal transport department their amassed the ‘world’s biggest fleet of Daimlers’ prior to their merger into WMPTE in 1969…
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