Cap badge, London Transport, about 1980

Cap badge, London Transport, about 1980

Museum ID: WNDRB : 2013.24.5

Cap badge for staff uniform of London Transort and Green Line Bus Bus Company. One of a collection of items relating to local man, Mr (Harry) H E Franklin, who was a bus driver for the Green Line Bus Company (part of London Transport), probably his whole career. He wrote on the back of a postcard (2013.24.2) and he lists the routes he worked on as Tunbridge Wells 704, Sevenoaks 705 and Epping and Harlow 718 from 1953 - 1986. We believe he retired soon after that. The green liveried London Transport buses and ‘Greenline’ coaches were a familiar sight in and around Windsor. From the formation of the London Transport Passenger Board in 1933 to its end in 1984, the buses served a complex of routes out to the Slough, Staines and High Wycombe areas, whilst the coaches operated mainly via London to far-off destinations such as Tunbridge Wells, Gravesend, Sevenoaks and Harlow. We have dated the badge as being about 1980 as it is in such good condition but it could be between 1953-1986

Measurements: 45 x 70 x 20

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