Buses on the Old Fairground: Or the Bristols and the Rest

Description

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Peter Wooller; First Edition (26 Mar. 1993)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 48 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0951769111
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0951769119

The Bristols and the West Until the early-1960s, tucked away behind the sideshows and roundabouts, almost any travelling fair had at least one second-hand (or third or fourth…) bus, serving as showman’s transport… Offering portraits and case histories of travelling showmen’s buses of 30 years ago, this book features 150 showman’s buses, more than one in four are Bristols. Other buses include Leyland, Guy and Dennis. The showmen could, and often did, give the most boring of buses great character. Details of the vehicles are listed, with a postscript on continental examples