National Bus Company (UK)
The National Bus Company (NBC) was a nationalised bus company that operated in England and Wales between 1969 and 1988. NBC did not run buses itself, but was the owner of a number of regional subsidiary bus operating companies.
Western National Bristol VR in Forder in May 1979
National Welsh Omnibus Services Leyland Leopard at Cardiff Central bus station in the poppy red and white "dual purpose" version of the NBC corporate livery in June 1980
Green Line Leyland National on Oxford Street, London in July 1976
Eastern Coach Works bodied Bristol in Weymouth in 1978 in National Express livery
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.
Tilling Group bus at Cobham Bus Museum, 1997.
Portrait of Tilling
Tilling horse bus in use.