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Details: Fleetnumbers of service vehicles before 1939 were a little confusing since many lorries and trucks were numbered in series shared by buses with similar chassis. For example, the L-class of Leylands were mainly buses but included at least five lorries. One of these was L64, seen attending to a broken-down STL428 at an unknown location (possibly Camden Town) in about 1936. The bus is on route 137, introduced in 1934 between Archway and Elmers End, being extended to West Wickham on Sundays until 1936 only. It later reached Bromley for a while but was extensively altered in 1937 with Clapham Common being the southern terminus. Finally it was extended to Crystal Palace in 1938 and then stayed generally the same for over 50 years. The Leyland LB5 lorry L64 had been new as a bus with the City Omnibus Co in 1929. Rebuilt as a lorry in July 1935, it was used as a towing vehicle at Chalk Farm garage until 1940 (with new fleetnumber 211L from 1939). It then spent a year or so with the building department at Parsons Green and was withdrawn in 1942, though not sold until 1946. Note that the lorry has canvas flaps as cab 'doors', though it does at least have pneumatic tyres.

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