{"id":2476,"date":"2024-03-27T20:52:20","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T20:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahgbooks.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=2476"},"modified":"2026-05-24T19:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T18:06:09","slug":"bill-and-jim-a-london-trolleybus-crew","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.ahgbooks.com\/index.php\/product\/bill-and-jim-a-london-trolleybus-crew\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill and Jim &#8211; A London Trolleybus Crew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This hard-back book is about a Wood Green trolleybus depot crew \u2013 driver Bill Ryder and conductor Jim Feirghley, who allowed a sixteen-year-old schoolboy into their working environment for eight months in 1961.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It is presented in a unique way in that the animated text is in date order and the photographs, in the main, are in geographical order.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Bill and Jim worked on routes 625, 627, 629 and 641 with each being liberally illustrated from end to end.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Other trolleybus routes and some motorbus routes they encountered also feature.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The change of class from H1 to K1\/K2 is demonstrated and the fact that Wood Green was involved in three conversion stages adds to the dialogue and the number of images used \u2013 361 monochromes with eight pages of colour.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Also illustrated are farecharts, badges, traffic circulars and the like.<\/p>\n<p>Bill and Jim saw replacement buses in their working arena as early as the summer of 1959, coming into contact with more in 1960 and 1961 as the trolleybus conversion progressed; there are photos of brand-new replacement buses which have never been seen before.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The last day of stage ten is liberally illustrated as is the final day \u2013 Tuesday 7th November 1961.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The compiler encouraged Bill Ryder to join him on the final run \u2013 on trolleybus 1353 to Winchmore Hill on route 641; there were just forty-five minutes to go before stage twelve came to a conclusion but an event occurred two minutes after Bill boarded.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>He was the only London Transport employee who knew what to do and it was his trolleybusmanship that enabled this conversion to finish as it should; one of the views of the situation, in the compiler\u2019s view, is the photograph of the whole conversion.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>All forty-four trolleybuses that operated out of Wood Green depot between stages ten and twelve are shown and, by chance, twenty-one of those forwarded to Isleworth are also seen; most gained another year\u2019s service in West London and there are images of them working there.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>This book should appeal to both the transport historian and to others outside of this field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This hard-back book is about a Wood Green trolleybus depot crew \u2013 driver Bill Ryder and conductor Jim Feirghley, who allowed a sixteen-year-old schoolboy into their working environment for eight months in 1961.\u00a0 It is presented in a unique way in that the animated text is in date order and the photographs, in the main, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"product_cat":[29,11],"product_tag":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahgbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/2476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahgbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahgbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahgbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahgbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahgbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahgbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=2476"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahgbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=2476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}