British-Built Buses Abroad in the 1980s

Like the railway industry in the nineteenth century, Britain was a major player in supplying the world with buses, particularly double-deckers. The principal contributors in the mid-twentieth century were AEC, Daimler and Leyland Motors. Buses were exported throughout the world either as complete vehicles or as a chassis with locally assembled bodywork completing the bus. Featured here are previously unpublished photographs of British buses in Canada, China, India South Africa, Portugal and Hong Kong.