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Busman's Holiday 1968
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Reading, Berkshire and Great Bookham, Surrey.
Various shots show a 1961 Sunbeam F4A with Burlingham body trolley bus driver Peter Lepine-Smith setting off from a depot and driving a trolley bus on one of the few remaining trolley circuits in Britain at the time, although it was due to close...
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- Time in/Out:
- 01:04:20:00 / 01:07:07:00
- Canister:
- CP 695
- Film ID:
- 429.03
- Issue Date:
- 18/04/1968
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The trolley-bus seen is a 1961 Sunbeam F4A with Burlingham body, Reg. No. VRD 182.
At 00:25, the bus-stop that the trolley-bus stops at is on Northumberland Avenue in Reading, opposite Christ The King Church, (the church can be seen as the bus approaches the stop).
Thanks.