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I've been watching the ITV series "A Spy Among Friends" from 2022 about the spy Kim Philby. It's very good and very atmospheric of the early 1960s.

But there's a couple of details that have been really bugging me.
The buses in the London scenes.
Some of them don't have adverts - which is wrong.
And one I had to look up - some of the buses have a white disc painted on the back. This seems to have been a thing in the 1940s to do with blackout - I can find no images with these discs from the 50s or 60s on buses (London Transport Museum archives)

Bus nerd or what?

#continuity #bus #transportHistory #buses #london Transport #itvx

Really enjoyed the London Transport Museum #HiddenLondon tour of Kingsway Tram Subway yesterday, giving me an insight into the network of trams that offered affordable travel across London until the '50s. The subway connected the north and south networks. More on Flickr here: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAGxZZ

#TransportHistory #LondonPhotography #Trams #LondonTransportMuseum

This year marks the 75th Anniversary of the Land Rover, the best 4x4xfar, so with complete shamelessness, I shall take that opportunity to promote my book on this wonderful vehicle, printed by Pen & Sword Books. https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Land-Craft-7-Land-Rover-Paperback/p/18544

#landrover #militaryhistory #transporthistory #scalemodelling

Would funeral coaches definitely be horse-drawn in 1883? A @libcrowds Zooniverse @LivingWithMachines volunteer asked in reference to an article in the Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser
#mastodons #TransportHistory

https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/bldigital/living-with-machines/talk/2794/2852658

Are you interested in the 19th century history of Wolverhampton, Bilston, Willenhall, Wednesfield, Sedgley or Widnes?

See how Victorians living in the Midlands experienced accidents with machines via our crowdsourcing tasks!

https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/bldigital/living-with-machines/

#twitterstorians #Midlands #LocalHistory #TransportHistory

Went on the Shepherd's Bush #HiddenLondon tour today. You explore the old tunnels and lift shafts that were superseded when escalators were installed in the late 1930s (see the substructure of the escalators in the second pic). More photos on Flickr: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAsMoQ

#LondonHistory #TransportHistory #LondonUnderground #ShepherdsBush

Hello @histodons. Can any #TransportHistory people help identify the vehicles below and perhaps put a date to them (yes, I know they are a car, a plane and a bus). Probably British built. Probably 1930s?

Here's our thinking-in-progress for @LivingWithMachines about how the word 'trolley' changed over time, from a low, flat cart to a steam or electric trolley-car or tram...

Have you seen examples of trolleys in 19th articles that could complicate our chosen 'senses'? https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/bldigital/living-with-machines/talk/2795/2773552?comment=4555192

#HistSTM #DataScience #Linguistics #CommunityHistory #TransportHistory

The National Union of Railwaymen always produced pretty good badges, but this one might be a bit unexpected. In fact, from the 1920s onwards, the NUR recruited significant numbers of bus workers, as this article explains https://sslh.org.uk/2022/01/17/on-the-buses-how-the-national-union-of-railwaymen-organised-bus-workers/
@histodons #LabourHistory #TradeUnionBadges #TransportHistory