British Electric Traction
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British Electric Traction Company Limited, renamed BET plc in 1985, was a large British industrial conglomerate. It was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but was acquired by Rentokil in 1996, a
BET wagon used in the installation of overhead tram wires, at Sedgley, c. 1901
Wolverhampton District Electric Tramways Company preserved tramcar at the Black Country Museum
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Tilling Group
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The Tilling Group was one of two conglomerates that controlled almost all of the major bus operators in the United Kingdom between World Wars I and II and until nationalisation in 1948.
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…textile maintenance and waste management. From 1949 until 1967 BET continued to be one of the two major bus groups in the UK, alongside the state-owned Tilling Group (owned by the British Transport Commission and from 1963 by the Transport Holding Company). In 1956 BET acquired a 20% interest in United Transport…
Tilling Group bus at Cobham Bus Museum, 1997.
Portrait of Tilling
Tilling omnibus in use.