SOUTHDOWN IN NBC DAYS

Since the publication of their first volume on Southdown, Glory Days: Southdown, both Glyn Kraemer-Johnson and John Bishop have become recognised as amongst the country’s leading authorities on the subject of Southdown, in particular, and of bus operations in southeast England in general. This new book carries on the Southdown story, examining the history of the operator from the point in the mid-1970s when NBC corporate identity started to rob the constituent companies of their individual identities through to the late 1980s when Deregulation and Privatisation resulted in the death knell of many of the most famous names in the British bus industry. The book includes a detailed narrative recalling the story of Southdown during these years allied to a comprehensive selection of images that record the evolution of the fleet and operations from the final years of the pre-NBC vehicles inherited in 1969 through to the arrival of Leyland Nationals and other types imposed from the centre.