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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2025 7:56 pm Post subject:

W.B.:

EXACTLY what I wished to know; THANK YOU! Very Happy

Hard to believe that the TARS "convoitable" streetcars "soiving" that "car door" have now been gone 80-odd years........ Rolling Eyes

"NYO"

["THIRD AVENUE RAILWAY SYSTEM"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2025 9:19 pm Post subject:

Am curious (I cannot recall if we discussed this earlier in this topic)............

When FACCo retired the last of the elderly, open-top "Blunderbuses" in 1946, did the conductors have the option to remain with the company and train as drivers?

Or, were they simply "sacked"?

"NYO"

["GO THE MOTOR COACH WAY"]

W.B. Fishbowl · Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2025 4:04 pm Post subject:

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2025 4:32 pm Post subject:

W.B.:

I had forgotten about the TWU; let me know what historical info you can unearth on the then-redundant FACCo conductors (recall, out in "Shik-aga" "Motor Coach" retired their old "Blunderbuses" earlier than FACCo.................

"NYO"

["YELLOW COACH"]

W.B. Fishbowl · Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2025 5:11 pm Post subject:

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2025 6:36 pm Post subject:

W.B.:

Seems that "Shik-aga" wanted to be rid of ANY and ALL double-deckers, even quicker than "Noo Yawk".

By the 1960s, it was clear that, eventually, London Transport would be doing away with conductors; all new double- and single-deckers were now "OMO" (One Man Operation)

Even older single-deckers, which initially employed conductors, were now being converted to "OMO".

As you know, the iconic "Routemasters" were the very last London buses to employ conductors; the last of these historic buses werer etired in 2005.........

"NYO"

["722 CHIGWELL-MORDEN STN."]