Park Royal Vehicles Ltd. is the coachbuilder people think of first when they think of London's buses. Even though the factory ceased production in 1980, its products are still a common site on London's roads in the form of the famous Routemaster buses, most of which were built between 1959 and 1968. You can read more on Park Royal Vehicles at Graham Hill's Web Site, who is the son of the designer of the Routemaster bus, Alfred Hill, and at British Buses of the 1960's website.

Continuing on the theme of bus industry advertising, I have now acquired a quantity of publicity material produced by Park Royal Vehicles in the early 1950's ( with many thanks to Jørn Malde). I will be publishing this over the coming months. First out are some photographs and artwork depicting 5 motorbuses and one trolleybus which were built for the export market. The pictures appear in pairs, a colour picture of the bus accompanied by a black and white interior view. All the pictures are clickable to see a larger version. The text accompanying the pictures is Park Royal's.