xkopite:
Thanks for info Marky.
Yes you may be right about people taking pics, I suppose only the likes of Peter Davies would be interested in these pics.
I don’t think it’s so much that as the fact that there simply weren’t the people with the foresight (or the finances) to take the pictures at that time in comparison to today. We live in an age where photographic development costs are almost zero - given that most people who own PCs also own digital cameras which cost nothing like as much (in real terms) as cameras did previously.
Peter was paid to take pictures by GM Bedford, so he had the motivation from that aspect as well as the interest in the subject matter. Its no surprise he’s such a prolific transport photographer.
There were several notable transport photographers of the age Peter Davies, Arthur Ingram, Geoff Milne and Roger Kenney are names which immediately spring to mind, with Arthur Ingram probably the most prolific of all