London Transport Q type. Painting by Mike Jeffries

London Transport Q type.

by Mike Jeffries

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Dimensions

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Title

London Transport Q type.

Artist

Mike Jeffries

Medium

Painting - Oil On Canvas

Description

YOU TOO CAN COMMISSION MIKE TO PAINT YOUR VERY OWN ORIGINAL OF YOUR FAVOURITE VEHICLE, A SOUND INVESTMENT FROM WHOM MANY REGARD AS BRITAIN'S LEADING TRANSPORT ARTIST. JUST E-MAIL mike@transportartist.co.uk

Nowadays, it is difficult to convey how strange a bus with no radiator or indication of an engine at the front looked in the early 1930�s to a public more used to a stately upright radiator and a half-cab in which the driver sat in solitary splendour.

Such was the Q type developed by Arthur Rackham at AEC whose inspiration for the concept of a side-mounted engine came from his time in the USA as chief engineer at the Yellow Coach Manufacturing Co. Ltd. The engine of a Q was mounted OUTSIDE the chassis on the offside behind the driver with a prop-shaft running in a straight line to the gearbox thence to the under-slung differential offset to the extreme offside of the rear axle.

Here a Q type of London Transport threads its way though Clarence Street, Kingston-on Thames followed closely by the more conventional looking AEC Regal T type of Green Line sometime in the mid-fifties.
Luckily a few Q types have survived the cutters torch and continue to give pleasure to both bus enthusiasts and public alike and as a reminder that London Transport was at the forefront of bus development.

E-mail mike@transportartist .co.uk to commission your own unique work of art by one of Britain�s leading transport artists.

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