5 April 2009 - Surrey, UK - Cobham: One of the fleet of Bristol buses operated by the Thames Valley Traction Company, which served a large area to the west of London. This is a Bristol K-type lowbridge double-deck bus with a body built at Eastern Coachworks (`ECW`), the main body builders for Bristol. At this time, Bristol were only allowed to supply buses to a smallish part of the UK bus operator market, with AEC, Leyland and other manufacturers rstricted to supplying the others. Depending on the ownership of the company, this dictated who could supply you with buses, a restriction that lasted for many years.

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JP (2018-08-11 14:31:52.49677)
Why was this restricted?
dvigar (2018-08-11 17:35:41.635828)
@JP - Many British bus companies in the late 1940s and the 1950s were grouped into either British Electric Traction (BET) or the Tilling Group, which owned Bristol Tramways and also the manufacturing side of Bristol and ECW. For this reason, if you were a Tilling company, you were told you must buy only Bristol buses, to keep the money in the Group. Similarly, BET companies had to buy from non-Tilling builders.
JP (2018-08-11 17:55:33.829774)
Interesting solution to put a manufacturer and operators together.

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