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In the table headed: "Management of London Transport 1933-2000," the overseer of the LPTB is shown as "London County Council" (LCC). Although there was a representative of the LCC on the Board (as there was for Surrey County Council, the LPTB was, in fact, a quasi-public organisation akin to a modern
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I think bits in the vehicles section can be moved to the history section - leaving the vehicles section to be about buses in London today? This would be things like the AEC Routemaster withdrawal, introduction of articulated buses, New Routemaster, recent introduction of zero emission buses etc...
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The last bus specifically designed for London was the AEC Routemaster, built between 1956 and 1968. Since then, buses built for London's local services have all been variants of models built for general use
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QUANGO. It was, to a limited extent, accountable to users via The London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee and its annual reports were addressed to the Minister of Transport. See <ref: -->
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In May 2010 Mayor of London Boris Johnson unveiled the design of the New Routemaster, the proposed replacement for the Routemaster as an iconic standard bus for exclusive use in London.
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Policy is to only use country flags if they add information which is not already in the text. I do not understand what these are supposed to be doing. Remove.
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The table with country flags shown under "Service area" is confusing - do the flags need to be on there?
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Other bits worth adding to the history section - expanding on the fall of ridership post war,
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at the time (August 11, 2016). There are suggestions on
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