British Municipal Buses in Portugal
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British Municipal Buses in Portugal by David Harvey
From 1940 until the mid-1970s Britain supplied Portugal with many of its bus chassis. In the capital city of Lisbon, the local operator was CFL who were the first buyer of heavyweight British-built bus chassis. Between 1947 and 1949 some 141 single-deckers were placed in service, mostly being AEC Regal Is, but with a smattering of Leyland OPS1s, Albion Valkyries and Maudslay Marathons. Many of the AECs were rebodied in the 1960s. The first double-deckers were two Leyland Titan PD1As arriving in 1947, but from 1950 a large fleet of AEC Regent I and Vs were purchased with the last ones arriving in 1967 as integral UTIC-AECs. All of these looked like typical British municipal buses. Small batches of Guy Conquest and AEC Reliances single-deckers arrived in the 1960s while between 1967 and 1972 fifty-five Daimler Fleetlines were purchased, but these were the final British chassis built for Lisbon.With a wonderful array of photographs, David Harvey tells the story of British buses in both Lisbon and Portugal as a whole, documenting a period where the public transport of Portugal would have seemed familiar to any British tourist.
David Harvey is a well-respected and authoritative author who has written extensively for Classic Bus magazine and has had many previous transport titles published by Amberley. He lives in Dudley in the West Midlands.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781445692630 |
| ISBN 10 | 1445692635 |
| Title | British Municipal Buses in Portugal |
| Author | David Harvey |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Amberley Publishing |
| Year published | 2019-09-15 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
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