Object number
2010/131
Collection
Description
This triangular enamel sign dates from the 1930s. It is red, with white and black lettering which reads ‘Bus Stop Wilts & Dorset Motor Services Limited. In association with Southern Railway’. Southern Railway bought shares in the Wilts & Dorset Bus Company (formed in 1915) in 1931. With the nationalisation of the railways in 1948, the Wilts & Dorset became state owned. It ran buses in Wiltshire, Dorset and Hampshire, especially in the Andover, Amesbury, Pewsey and Salisbury areas.
Label Text
Bus stop sign. This enamel sign dates from the 1930s. Southern Railway bought shares in the Wilts & Dorset Bus Company (formed in 1915) in 1931. With the nationalisation of the railways in 1948, the Wilts & Dorset became state owned. It ran buses in Wiltshire, Dorset and Hampshire, especially in the Andover, Amesbury, Pewsey and Salisbury areas.
Production date
1931 - 1939
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