LGOC Type B Bus
Unassembled plastic model kit
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The First World War, which began in the summer of 1914, prompted the search for means of rapid movement of large groups of soldiers as close as possible to points of contact with the enemy. The military leadership immediately became interested in the possibility of using omnibuses, and soon the first Type B machines were already in the army. In total, from October 1914 to March 1915, 300 Type B buses were requisitioned, which had to change the cobblestone streets of London to France's dirt-bombed roads.
Former civilian drivers from London were now forced to become military drivers, and bus operations, which involved the rapid transfer of groups of soldiers to the front, were quite dangerous given the possibility of shelling by the enemy, and therefore the transport of troops was carried out mainly at night.
After the end of World War I, a large number of omnibuses returned to their hometown, with the Main Bus Company redeeming them for the second time in the army, and they again began to dominate the streets of London as the main vehicle of mass use.