story repeated after years
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E NEWS that the EEC is to 'tribute £600,000 towards the 'elopment by Britain of a 3e1-electric bus turns back the ;k nearly BO years. It recalls famous Tilling-Stevens rol-electric bus that used to le through London on, I think, 36 route operated by )mas Tilling Ltd and perhaps
Jthers.
had its origin in a petrol;tric car produced in 1906 by A. Stevens. Tilling's chief iineer saw its possibilities for andon bus and collaboration vveen him and Stevens
3ted a little bit of road
isport history which was to )erpetuated for a quarter of a tury by Tilling-Stevens Ltd. icidentally, the corn pa ny was innovating in 1937 when it sed a sensation at the nmercial Motor Show with a wheeled passenger chassis ing independent suspension the rear bogie and a izontally opposed eig htndered diesel engine driving )ugh a Mayback seven-speed selector gearbox.
was ambitiously misnamed Successor. It disappeared up )wn exhaust pipe, like the an rope trick, and was never n again.