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314 London Buses 1940s Stock Photos & High-Res Pictures

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Number 9 bus drives along Cannon Street past St Paul's Cathedral in the City of London in January 1946. Various bomb sites are visible in the...

1946 View Of St Paul's Cathedral

Facades, traffic and people reflected in a shop window in Piccadilly, London. In black and white book

Piccadilly Adverts

Two 'Constellation' aircraft are the first American air-liners to land at London's new Heathrow Airport.

American Arrivals

London double decker bus hit in an air raid leans against 34 Harrington Square Garden in North London. 9th September 1940.

A London double decker bus hit in an air raid leans against a house

View down Leyton High Road in Leyton, east London, showing the Town hall and public library , 9th January 1948.

Leyton High Road

An advertisment plastered to a bridge in Ludgate Circus encourages the purchase of government bonds to raise war funds. London, March 1940.

War Loans Advertisement in London Street

Bus makes its way past a bomb site in Trafalgar Square, London, circa 1940.

Trafalgar Square Bombed

Pupils from Lady Margaret School leave London in a coach bound for Hindhead, as part of London County Council's spring and summer educational camps

One of the first London women bus conductors, issued with new winter uniform of slacks and three quarter length coats, operating on an old horse...

Bus Conductress

Man wearing a suit sits on a chair to read a copy of the Evening Standard newspaper as a bus passes by on a road beside Hyde Park in London during...

Newspaper Reader

Buses, cars and pedestrians drive and walk along St Paul's Churchyard and Cannon Street beside Blitz damaged bomb sites in front of St Paul's...

St Paul's Cathedral In Wartime

New female London Transport bus conductor Mrs Bates along with fellow male bus conductors and drivers change crews with a AEC Regent 1 Bus and a...

London Bus Crews In Wartime

View of bomb damaged buildings, destroyed motor cars and a London Transport AEC Regent III RT double decker bus on Portman Street following an air...

World War Two: Home Front 1940

Bomb damage in Victoria Street in London, following the Blitz, September 1941. A double- decker bus passes along the road between ruined buildings.

Bomb damage in Victoria Street in London, following the Blitz, September 1941

London buses struggle to maintain a normal service during severe flooding in London.

Day celebrations in London at the end of the Second World War. Huge crowds gathered around Piccadilly Circus during the celebrations. 8th May 1945.

VE Day celebrations in London 1945

Day celebrations in London at the end of the Second World War. Huge crowds gathered around Piccadilly Circus during the celebrations. 8th May 1945.

VE Day celebrations in London 1945

Minutes after the news of the Japanese surrender, huge crowds gathered in Piccadilly Circus, bringing traffic to a standstill.

VJ Day In London

Westminster Bridge with taxis & trams, May 12th, 1949

Westminster Bridge with taxis & trams, May 12th, 1949

Trams on Westminster Bridge, June 12th, 1949

Trams on Westminster Bridge, June 12th, 1949

London Passenger Transport Board worker arranges the storage of Bus Stop signs which have been removed to economise on fuel and rubber through fewer...

World War Two: Home Front 1942

New female London Transport bus conductor Mrs Bates collects fares from passengers on the bottom deck of an AEC Regent 1 Bus in service in West...

Female Bus Conductor In Wartime

Two-story bus in a crater dug by a German bomb, during the Battle of Britain in London, between 1940 and 1945. German troops, having failed to crush...

Two-Story Bus In A Bomb Crater During The Blitz In London 1940-1945

Bus is left leaning against the side of a terrace in Harrington Square, Mornington Crescent, in the aftermath of a German bombing raid on London in...

Man with a trolley stretcher in the London Underground shelters.

London bus driver leans out of his cab to shake hands with Father Christmas who is passing by on his scooter.

Santa's Scooter

Sailor and a civilian clamber on top of a bus stop in Whitehall, London, during the VE Day celebrations.

On The Bus Stop

Eve of VE Day celebrations in London at the end of the Second World War. Crowds gathered in Piccadilly Circus and surrounding area, 7th May 1945.

VE Day celebrations in London 1945

Traffic on the New Kent Road, Southwark, London, 1947. A tram, buses and cars are caught in traffic congestion near Elephant and Castle looking west...

Traffic On The New Kent Road, Southwark, London, 1947

Number 607 London Transport Trolleybus en route to Hanwell in London, 15th June 1948.

London Trolleybus

American CBS news correspondent Edward R. Murrow at Oxford Circus outside the BBC's Broadcast House, from which Murrow beamed his 'This is London'...

Murrow During The Blitz

People boarding a bus for Hampstead Heath in London.

American GI's outside Rainbow Corner, the American Red Cross club for servicemen in London's Piccadilly. Original Publication: Picture Post - 1887 -...

Bus in a bomb crater in London.

Double decker bus which was destroyed in a bombing raid over central London.

Santa Claus rides a motorbike with a sidecar down Oxford Street, London.

Motorbike Santa

Bus with fluorescent lighting at the Commercial Motor Transport Show at Earls Court in London, just before it opened to the public. The vehicle,...

Provincial newspaper offices such as, 'Irish Independent', 'Methodist Recorder, 'Welsh Weekly Newspapers', 'Sunday Independent' and 'Evening Herald',...

Bus conductor at work on the upper deck of a new trolleybus introduced by London Transport, serving south-West and West London, UK, 5th February 1948.

New Bus For London

General view of cyclists, a horsedrawn cart and other traffic on Liverpool Road, at the junction with Bromfield Street, in Islington, London,...

Liverpool Road, Islington, London

Snow covered London. George W Roper. 1st February 1942.

Snow covered London

Bombed bus, Holborn, London, Second World War, circa 1940. A double-decker bus after being wrecked by ememy bombs during the Blitz.

A bombed bus, Holborn, London, Second World War, c 1940

View of the traffic in Trafalgar Square with St Martin-in-the-Fields church in London, England in June 1946.

View Of St Martin In The Fields

The view from a car at the junction of Chiswick High Road with Goldhawk Road in west London, June 1946.

Driving In London

Rag Helmets For 36,000 Bus Drivers 000 London bus drivers and conductors are being equipped with the new plastic - ' rag ' - helmets. Experiments are...

Rag Helmets For 36,000 Bus Drivers

The Derby County team return home with the FA Cup trophy following their victory over Charlton Athletic in the Final at Wembley. Picture shows: Derby...

Derby FA Cup winning team homecoming 1946

Eve of VE Day celebrations in London at the end of the Second World War. Students from University College London parade their mascot through the...

VE Day celebrations in London 1945

From left to right, Alderman Harold Hodkinson, Transport Minister Alfred Barnes and Thomas Macpherson , chairman of the Thames Passenger Services...

Thames River Trip

London bus lies wrecked after being hit by a bomb during a German air raid on London, other buildings were severely damaged.

1940, A London bus lies wrecked after being hit by a bomb during a German air raid on London, other buildings were severely damaged

London bus conductor Albert West tests an automatic ticket machine on the Number 14 bus between Hornsey and Putney.

Bus Conductor at Work

Careless Talk may betray vital secrets. Daily Herald 9th February 1940 "Hush my dear! You never know who's listening!" Ministry of Information...

Careless Talk may betray vital secrets. Daily Herald 9th February 1940

Tottenham City Road. June 1944 P009387

Tottenham City Road. June 1944 P009387

Gas producer bus passes a petrol driven bus on London's Park Lane during a tests to compare the efficiency of the new fuel source.

Pedestrians and a double-decker bus waiting whilst Tower Bridge is raised to let a ship pass through.

End Of The Road

London parents waving goodbye to their children as they board a bus to take them to live in a safer district during World War II.

Nurses bringing babies by trolley to their mothers for feeding at Shardloes stately home, Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Over 3,000 babies of London...

Group of Greenford schoolboys frolic in the flooded Ruislip Road.

Old London Transport buses being broken for scrap at Rainham in Essex.

Bus which has plunged into a bomb crater on Balham High Road, south London, 17th October 1940.

Bomb-Damaged Balham

High-angle view of traffic and pedestrians passing St Pancras Town Hall on Euston Road, borough of Camden, London, England, 1945. Later known as...

St Pancras Town Hall, Euston Road, London

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