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.
Tilling Group bus at Cobham Bus Museum, 1997.
Portrait of Tilling
Tilling omnibus in use.
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National Bus Company (UK)
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The National Bus Company 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
Tilling Group
…a new body, the Transport Holding Company (THC), took over the bus assets of the BTC, and in 1967, BET sold its remaining bus interests to THC. The National Bus Company was formed a year later, mainly from former Tilling and BET subsidiaries. Brighton, Hove and District…
A Western National Bristol VR in Forder, Cornwall (May 1979)
A 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 (June 1980)
A Green Line Leyland National on Oxford Street, London (July 1976)
An Eastern Coach Works (ECW) bodied Bristol in Weymouth, Dorset in National Express livery (1978)