 Worcester Park
Transport history
Page last updated 8 January 2014
Merton-based utility Daimler
D16 heads for Raynes Park on route 32 on
20 Apr 50. The picture is taken in Morden Hall Road and also
features several cars of the period. Private car ownership
was beginning to rise by 1950 and was the major factor in the
peaking and slow decline in bus usage evident in the 1950s.
Photo ©
Alan Cross
Following our Worcester Park Running Day in 2008, this section
of the site provides some background to the area and its transport
history, including the excellent and comprehensive monograph by
Derek Fisk.
Correspondent Andrew Hicks
has sent copies of a selection of his photos from the area
taken in the early 1960s. Here treelopper 973J (formerly
STL1512) tackles its last job in March or April 1963 - Andrew tells
us that the job was completed by a new lorry, one of the Thames
lorries purchased that year, no doubt. 973J was working
from Hammersmith Riverside at the time, and was then stored at
Aldenham until sold that September. About to pick up the
gentleman carrying his raincoat after a spring shower is RF532,
notable for carrying blinds with lower-case intermediate points,
which had only just been introduced to the fleet before
the 213 converted to RT in May 1963 (which is of course the job the
treelopper is undertaking).
Photo ©
Andrew Hicks
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