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Snapshots of Cars On The Streets of London in the mid 1970s

David Rostance shows us cars on London's streets 1975 to 1977

David Rostance has taken us around the United Kingdom in the mid 1970s, showing us trains in Manchester and life on the streets of Wolverhampton, Birmingham and London. In this tour, we stay in England’s capital city. Our interest is in the cars on London’s roads. When we showed you Bob Hyde’s sublime pictures of 1960s London, we were inundated with your comments on the motors, not least of all when it came to identifying the cars whizzing through Cambridge Circus and passing by the sign for ‘Service and Tropical‘. So here goes:

South Circular Road, March 1975 Thurlow Park Road, London SE21. 16th March 1975. London

South Circular Road, March 1975 Thurlow Park Road, London SE21. 16th March 1975.

AEC Routemaster No. RM 401 waits at traffic lights in Norwood Road, West Norwood while working route 68 to Euston. 16th March 1975.

AEC Routemaster No. RM 401 waits at traffic lights in Norwood Road, West Norwood while working route 68 to Euston. 16th March 1975.

 

According to Auto Express magazine, the UK’s best selling cars in 1975 were:

1 Ford Cortina
2 Ford Escort
3 BMC Mini
4 Morris Marina
5 Austin Allegro
6 Vauxhall Viva
7 Hillman Avenger
8 Triumph Dolomite
9 Leyland Princess
10 Hillman Hunter

 

London cars 1970s Thurlow Park Road and West Dulwich railway station, London SE21. 16th March 1975.

Thurlow Park Road and West Dulwich railway station, London SE21. 16th March 1975.

Dulwich Common, London SE21, 16th March 1975 London cars 1970s

Dulwich Common, London SE21, 16th March 1975

Whitehall and the Cenotaph, April 1975

Whitehall and the Cenotaph, April 1975

AEC Routemasters vie with other traffic at the junction of Lower Regent Street and Piccadilly Circus on 19th April 1975.

AEC Routemasters vie with other traffic at the junction of Lower Regent Street and Piccadilly Circus on 19th April 1975.

London cars 1970s

English Eccentrics, Crouch End, April 1975

London cars 1970s

Prince Consort Road, South Kensington, Nov. 1975

London cars 1970s

Edison Road, Crouch End, April 1976

London cars 1970s

The Archway Tavern, April 1976he Archway Tavern, April 1976

London cars 1970s

Routemasters in Park Lane with RM1240 nearest. 3rd April 1976.

1970s London cars

Trafalgar Square, 1975

1970s London cars

Parliament Square, London, April 1976

1970s London cars

Temporarily renumbered as SRM5, Bulmers Cider sponsored AEC Routemaster No. RM1668 in Queen’s Silver Jubilee livery makes it’s way through Trafalgar Square on 6th June 1977.

1970s London cars

West End of London 1977

1970s London cars

Novello Street, Fulham, June 1977

1970s London cars

Ice cream van in Alleyn Park, Sydenham Hill, 16th March 1975.

1970s London cars

AEC Routemaster No. RM 401 waits at traffic lights in Norwood Road, West Norwood while working route 68 to Euston. 16th March 1975.

1970s London cars

AEC Routemaster No. RM 1976 has just passed under the railway near Tulse Hill station on 16th March 1975.

1970s London cars

Road paving in Crouch End Broadway, north London on 15th February 1976.

1970s London cars

Routemasters turning from Haymarket into Pall Mall, April 1976

1970s London cars

Turning from Fulham Broadway into Harwood Road, AEC Routemaster No. RM 1865 works route 11 on 7th June 1977.

Via: David Rostance

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