My job title back then was ‘Operations Examiner’ and I was one of a team of five crunching through mileage data to identify potential cost savings and enhanced efficiencies. We were based at Centre Heights, Swiss Cottage, London NW3. This six-storey building comprised offices on the lower three floors and private flats (with balconies) on the top three. As there was no room for us in the company’s main office, we were based in a private flat - and largely forgotten by the company managers. This made for a very leisurely work rate, plus long lunch breaks. I brought my camera to work one day to record the activity in Finchley Road down below. Here we see an London Transport single-doorway AEC Merlin of the MB class picking up passengers on the 268 route to Hampstead Village and Golders Green.

July 1975
Zorki 4 camera
Agfa CT18 ASA 100 film.

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