During the Great Depression, many British workers were unemployed. Hence,the move to trackless trolleys or "trolley buses" was seen as a politically astute choice. Since these trolley buses ran on electricity provided by domestic coal fields - and so local workers - they were preferred to petrol-driven vehicles which depended on foreign fuel.
Little by little, systems throughout Great Britain began to switch to - or add - trolley buses to their fleet. The biggest conversion of all was in London where improvements in routes...consolidated of the ownership of all trams, buses and the Underground...and even a 6-shilling evening ticket with unlimited rides made the trolley bus all the more popular. At that time, the appearance of the red double-decker London trolley bus, nicknamed "the Diddler," seemed to reflect the future of tram traffic in the city. And now, its long elegant shape is recaptured in a beautifully detailed die-cast replica.

(1996)

Scale: 1:76