Francis Arnold
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The Nick Baldwin Collection contains this licence issued to Francis Arnold, a London Transport bus driver in the late 1930s: Enlarge Francis Arnold's driving licence. |
| This is the type of bus that Francis Arnold was licensed to drive. It was made by AEC in about 1930 for the London General Omnibus Company. |  |
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The 1930s was a volatile era to be driving buses in, particularly as World War 2 was just around the corner. During the war, drivers were in high demand. Transporting people around was still required as people struggled to maintain their everyday lives. The heavy bombing of Britain’s towns and cities made life dangerous as this photograph of bomb damage in Dover in 1943 shows. |
