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Pune 1941

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VM Motors, Arcot, TN

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Probably a modified Bedford bus, ferrying passengers from Hoskote to Bangalore. Clowning atop the bus is the author Kenneth Anderson
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courtesy The Citizens Archive of India.

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Across the Sharavati River...….somewhere on the present Konkan Railway.

Most likely Calcutta

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Simpler times, 1964

An accident in Madras

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Picture taken in 1975. In this picture driver and conductor of a Mercedes-Benz bus of Regional engineering college Kashmir are seen pre heating the engine.
Source

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Calcutta Fire brigade, 1916

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Srinagar, Circa 1950's

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Photograph taken in 1925 by James Dearden Holmes showing buses halted near the Domel Custom Check Post. The custom post was at Domel as two road One from Kohala and other from Abbbotabad- Muzzafarabad joined at Domel.

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Photograph taken by R.C.Mehta in 1943 showing the hustle and bustle at the Custom Clearance House situated at Domel 112 miles from Srinagar.

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Photograph showing one of the last Buses of Pindi Muree transport company leaving from Srinagar in 1947. This service was started in 1929.

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A promotional advertisement in the newspaper regarding the timetable of the service of The Nanda Bus Service Ltd

Base - Lahore & Amritsar. Punjab and Kashmir Routes are shown in the timetable, 1934
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Ashraf Khan & Nanda Bus Service.

To & from Peshawar, Rawalpindi & Abbottabad

Nanda Bus Service was Sialkot/Lahore based and provided services for Pindi, Lahore, Peshawar, Sialkot, Lyallpur, Srinagar, Murree, Abbottabad, etc.
Date: 1939

Courtesy: Tajik Sohail Habib
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Courtesy: Picuki
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Bus on the road to Srinagar from Lahore on the old Mughal Road aka Jhelum valley road which connected Lahore to Kashmir, Nanda Bus Service of Lahore provided regular stage carriage service on this route.

Date: 1936

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Refueling a BOAC Lockheed Constellation at Dum Dum Airport in 1950's

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Calcutta, 1944

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Of India interest. Rome, 1950


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