| London Transport operated over 1,700 different unmarked cars between the 1930s and the 1980s, these being designated as private cars and allocated to individual members of staff or positions. Sadly photos of any of these cars are extremely rare. Even more secretive were the cars and vans operated by the Railways policing department, where even the registration numbers were considered to be too confidential to include on the daily Variations in Rolling Stock reports! I was therefore very pleased to find this photo in amongst Michael Clark's collection. It was not labelled (though most others were), but we know that PXU297 was a Standard Vanguard car used by the railways police from February 1955 until June 1958. Another photo in the same album showed a member of staff using a very early form of radio telephone inside a car, and it could well be that that was also PXU297. The car certainly has a sizeable aerial. |
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8009 |
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c.1955 |
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Regular. An extra large copy of this photo is available. |
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28/01/2025 |
