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class="infobox"><caption class="infobox-title">Tilling Group</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Thomas_Tilling_bus_ST922_AEC_Regent_1_Tilling_bodywork_GJ_2098_in_Cobham_Bus_Museum,_Surrey_October_1997.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Thomas_Tilling_bus_ST922_AEC_Regent_1_Tilling_bodywork_GJ_2098_in_Cobham_Bus_Museum%2C_Surrey_October_1997.jpg/250px-Thomas_Tilling_bus_ST922_AEC_Regent_1_Tilling_bodywork_GJ_2098_in_Cobham_Bus_Museum%2C_Surrey_October_1997.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="376" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Thomas_Tilling_bus_ST922_AEC_Regent_1_Tilling_bodywork_GJ_2098_in_Cobham_Bus_Museum%2C_Surrey_October_1997.jpg/375px-Thomas_Tilling_bus_ST922_AEC_Regent_1_Tilling_bodywork_GJ_2098_in_Cobham_Bus_Museum%2C_Surrey_October_1997.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Thomas_Tilling_bus_ST922_AEC_Regent_1_Tilling_bodywork_GJ_2098_in_Cobham_Bus_Museum%2C_Surrey_October_1997.jpg 2x" data-file-width="426" data-file-height="640" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Tilling Group bus at Cobham Bus Museum, 1997.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">1846</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Service type</th><td class="infobox-data">Rural and urban bus services</td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Tilling Group</b> was one of two <a href="/wiki/Conglomerate_(company)" title="Conglomerate (company)">conglomerates</a> that controlled almost all of the major bus operators in the United Kingdom between World Wars I and II and until nationalisation in 1948. </p><p>Tilling, together with the other conglomerate, <a href="/wiki/British_Electric_Traction" title="British Electric Traction">British Electric Traction</a> (BET), became the main constituents of the country's <a href="/wiki/Nationalised" class="mw-redirect" title="Nationalised">nationalised</a> bus industry in the late 1960s and was sufficiently well known to have entered popular culture as part of London's <a href="/wiki/Cockney_rhyming_slang" class="mw-redirect" title="Cockney rhyming slang">Cockney rhyming slang</a> (Thomas Tilling = <a href="/wiki/Shilling" title="Shilling">shilling</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The company continued as an industrial conglomerate after nationalisation of its bus interests; it was acquired by <a href="/wiki/BTR_plc" title="BTR plc">BTR plc</a> in 1983. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origins">Origins</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tilling_Group&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Origins"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Thomas_Tilling_-_Ink_Sketch.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Thomas_Tilling_-_Ink_Sketch.png/170px-Thomas_Tilling_-_Ink_Sketch.png" decoding="async" width="170" height="221" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Thomas_Tilling_-_Ink_Sketch.png/255px-Thomas_Tilling_-_Ink_Sketch.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Thomas_Tilling_-_Ink_Sketch.png/340px-Thomas_Tilling_-_Ink_Sketch.png 2x" data-file-width="678" data-file-height="880" /></a><figcaption>Ink sketch of Thomas Tilling, from an 1893 South London Press article.</figcaption></figure> <p>The company traces its origins to 1846, when Thomas Tilling started in business. Tilling was born in 1825 at Gutter's Hedge Farm, <a href="/wiki/Hendon" title="Hendon">Hendon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Middlesex" title="Middlesex">Middlesex</a>, of parents who had moved there from <a href="/wiki/Gloucestershire" title="Gloucestershire">Gloucestershire</a>. In 1846, at the age of 21,<sup id="cite_ref-20thcenturylondon.org.uk_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20thcenturylondon.org.uk-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he went into the transport business in London as a <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jobmaster" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:jobmaster">jobmaster</a> in <a href="/wiki/Walworth,_London" class="mw-redirect" title="Walworth, London">Walworth</a> using a horse and carriage which cost him £30. </p><p>In January 1850, he purchased a <a href="/wiki/Horse_bus" class="mw-redirect" title="Horse bus">horse bus</a> together with the right to run four journeys a day between <a href="/wiki/Peckham" title="Peckham">Peckham</a> and <a href="/wiki/Oxford_Street" title="Oxford Street">Oxford Street</a>. This bus he drove himself, and at the time had only one employee, a <a href="/wiki/Bus_conductor" title="Bus conductor">conductor</a> named Joseph Eagle, who stayed with the firm until the end of his working life, well into the 1890s.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By 1856, Tilling owned 70 horses, which he used for bus and general carriage work. When the <a href="/wiki/London_Fire_Brigade" title="London Fire Brigade">Metropolitan Fire Brigade</a> was formed in 1866, Tilling was contracted to train and supply horses to haul the <a href="/wiki/Fire_engine" title="Fire engine">fire engines</a>; the horses were trained to respond quickly and, prior to handover to the fire brigade, were employed on bus services (primarily the Peckham route) to gain experience with heavy traffic. Tilling soon became the biggest supplier of horsepower and vehicles in London, with a <a href="/wiki/Stable" title="Stable">stable</a> of 4,000 horses by the time of his death in 1893. Tilling is buried at <a href="/wiki/Nunhead_Cemetery" title="Nunhead Cemetery">Nunhead Cemetery</a>, south London. </p><p>Tilling's horse buses stopped at predetermined points and ran to a fixed timetable, making them more punctual and orderly than the other operators' buses.<sup id="cite_ref-20thcenturylondon.org.uk_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20thcenturylondon.org.uk-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was one of the reasons for his success with customers. Because his buses operated on time, they earned the nickname of "Times" buses, and this became the fleet name painted on the side. </p><p>One of Tilling's children was the actress <a href="/wiki/Mabel_Constanduros" title="Mabel Constanduros">Mabel Constanduros</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_history">Early history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tilling_Group&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mr._Thomas_Tilling.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Mr._Thomas_Tilling.jpg/170px-Mr._Thomas_Tilling.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="205" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Mr._Thomas_Tilling.jpg/255px-Mr._Thomas_Tilling.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Mr._Thomas_Tilling.jpg/340px-Mr._Thomas_Tilling.jpg 2x" data-file-width="653" data-file-height="786" /></a><figcaption>Portrait of Tilling</figcaption></figure> <p>The business passed to Tilling's sons, Richard and Edward, who, with Thomas's son-in-law Walter Wolsey, formed a <a href="/wiki/Limited_company" title="Limited company">limited company</a>, Thomas Tilling Ltd, in 1897. In addition to bus work, the company hired carriages to individuals and to a range of <a href="/wiki/Public_utilities" class="mw-redirect" title="Public utilities">public utilities</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Thomas_Tilling_Ltd:_1849-1969_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thomas_Tilling_Ltd:_1849-1969-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The company put three <a href="/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_buses" title="Mercedes-Benz buses">Milnes-Daimler</a> 24 horsepower (18 kW) <a href="/wiki/Motor_bus" class="mw-redirect" title="Motor bus">motor buses</a> into service in 1904. These were <a href="/wiki/Open-top_bus" class="mw-redirect" title="Open-top bus">open top</a> <a href="/wiki/Double-decker_bus" title="Double-decker bus">double-deckers</a> with 16 inside seats and 18 "outside" on the upper deck, and a speed of 12 mph (19 km/h).<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These were the first double-decker motorbuses built for public service in London. By 1905, Tilling had 20 motor buses but still owned 7,000 horses, kept in 500 stables. The horses worked the company's 250 <a href="/wiki/Horsebus" title="Horsebus">horsebuses</a> were hired to companies and individuals for hauling goods vehicles, cabs, and carriages. In 1907, Tilling began the first long-distance motor bus service, running 13 buses between <a href="/wiki/Oxford_Circus" title="Oxford Circus">Oxford Circus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sidcup" title="Sidcup">Sidcup</a> in Kent.<sup id="cite_ref-20thcenturylondon.org.uk_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20thcenturylondon.org.uk-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1909, Tilling entered into an agreement with the <a href="/wiki/London_General_Omnibus_Company" title="London General Omnibus Company">London General Omnibus Company</a> (LGOC), which pooled their resources (and allowed Tilling to remain independent when LGOC led an amalgamation of most of London's bus companies), but which restricted their expansion in the capital.<sup id="cite_ref-Thomas_Tilling_Ltd:_1849-1969_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thomas_Tilling_Ltd:_1849-1969-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Then, LGOC and Tilling co-operated on a joint route from Peckham to Turnham Green, via <a href="/wiki/Oxford_Circus" title="Oxford Circus">Oxford Circus</a>. The LGOC had introduced numbers on all its routes, and this was route number 12. This service between Peckham and Oxford Circus still operates and is still the number 12. It may be the oldest operating bus route in London.<sup id="cite_ref-20thcenturylondon.org.uk_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20thcenturylondon.org.uk-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1915, the first woman bus conductor in London worked on Tilling route number 37.<sup id="cite_ref-20thcenturylondon.org.uk_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20thcenturylondon.org.uk-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>, women were recruited to replace men who had joined the Armed Forces. </p><p>In 1911, Tilling introduced the <a href="/wiki/Tilling-Stevens" title="Tilling-Stevens">Tilling-Stevens</a> TTA1 <a href="/wiki/Petrol-electric" class="mw-redirect" title="Petrol-electric">petrol-electric</a> bus into its fleet; despite some drawbacks of the technology, this type formed the mainstay of the fleet for some years.<sup id="cite_ref-Thomas_Tilling_Ltd:_1849-1969_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thomas_Tilling_Ltd:_1849-1969-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1914, just before the outbreak of World War I, the last horse-bus operated on the Tilling Honor Oak – Peckham Rye Station route,<sup id="cite_ref-Thomas_Tilling_Ltd:_1849-1969_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thomas_Tilling_Ltd:_1849-1969-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> after which the horses were requisitioned for war work. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="National_expansion">National expansion</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tilling_Group&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: National expansion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:10_granddad_Houghton_in_boater,_date_unknown_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="horsedrawn,Edwardian,public,transport,bus,carriage" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/10_granddad_Houghton_in_boater%2C_date_unknown_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-10_granddad_Houghton_in_boater%2C_date_unknown_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="153" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/10_granddad_Houghton_in_boater%2C_date_unknown_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-10_granddad_Houghton_in_boater%2C_date_unknown_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/10_granddad_Houghton_in_boater%2C_date_unknown_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-10_granddad_Houghton_in_boater%2C_date_unknown_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1213" data-file-height="846" /></a><figcaption>Tilling horse bus in use.</figcaption></figure> <p>Starting in 1914, with the LGOC dominant in London, the company looked to the rest of Britain outside London for growth. Tilling started to seek new markets in the provinces. The company began operating in Folkestone in 1914, Brighton in 1916, and Ipswich in 1919. </p><p>BET had entered into a similar agreement with LGOC in London, and was also expanding outside London. Instead of destructive rivalry, the two companies agreed to work in close co-operation. By 1928, a BET subsidiary, <a href="/w/index.php?title=British_Automobile_Traction&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="British Automobile Traction (page does not exist)">British Automobile Traction</a> Company (BAT), had interests in nineteen bus companies, with Tilling being a co-owner of eleven of them, and at the same time was partly owned by Tilling itself. To simplify the arrangement, BAT was reconstructed with a new title, Tilling & British Automobile Traction Ltd (TBAT), and Tilling exchanged its shares in the various operating companies for an increased shareholding in the new company.<sup id="cite_ref-20thcenturylondon.org.uk_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20thcenturylondon.org.uk-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Thomas_Tilling_Ltd:_1849-1969_8-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thomas_Tilling_Ltd:_1849-1969-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The railways of Britain had grown significantly and many companies had developed bus services. In 1923, most of these "pre-grouping" companies merged to form four mainline companies: <a href="/wiki/Great_Western_Railway" title="Great Western Railway">Great Western Railway</a>; <a href="/wiki/Southern_Railway_(UK)" title="Southern Railway (UK)">Southern Railway</a>; <a href="/wiki/London,_Midland_and_Scottish_Railway" title="London, Midland and Scottish Railway">London, Midland and Scottish Railway</a>; and <a href="/wiki/London_and_North_Eastern_Railway" title="London and North Eastern Railway">London and North Eastern Railway</a>. During the 1920s, the "<a href="/wiki/Big_Four_British_railway_companies" class="mw-redirect" title="Big Four British railway companies">Big Four</a>" divested themselves of much of the operations of their bus networks by transferring their interests to Tilling and BET in exchange for shares. </p><p>The Tilling family's association with the company ended in 1929 with the death of Richard Tilling. In 1931, Thomas Tilling Ltd acquired the <a href="/wiki/Bristol_Omnibus_Company" title="Bristol Omnibus Company">Bristol Tramways and Carriage Company</a>, along with the <a href="/wiki/First_Norfolk_%26_Suffolk" class="mw-redirect" title="First Norfolk & Suffolk">Eastern Counties Omnibus Company</a>, whose bus construction activities were renamed the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Coach_Works" title="Eastern Coach Works">Eastern Coach Works</a> Ltd (ECW) in 1936.<sup id="cite_ref-Thomas_Tilling_Ltd:_1849-1969_8-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thomas_Tilling_Ltd:_1849-1969-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1933, the new <a href="/wiki/London_Passenger_Transport_Board" title="London Passenger Transport Board">London Passenger Transport Board</a> compulsorily acquired the 328 buses that made up Tilling's South London services.<sup id="cite_ref-20thcenturylondon.org.uk_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20thcenturylondon.org.uk-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1935, Tilling took over <a href="/wiki/Royal_Blue_Coach_Services" title="Royal Blue Coach Services">Royal Blue</a>, which was the premier express coach company in the South and West of England, with a network of routes stretching from Penzance to Margate and Bournemouth to London, having developed tours and local services around Bournemouth and the New Forest in the horse-drawn era and express coach services after the First World War.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Tilling and TBAT continued to trade successfully, but internal disagreements resulted in TBAT being wound up in 1942.<sup id="cite_ref-Thomas_Tilling_Ltd:_1849-1969_8-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thomas_Tilling_Ltd:_1849-1969-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The companies in TBAT were split between Tilling and BET, and the two groups continued to operate independently until nationalisation began in the late 1940s. Tilling Motor Services Ltd was formed from the break-up.<sup id="cite_ref-Thomas_Tilling_Ltd:_1849-1969_8-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thomas_Tilling_Ltd:_1849-1969-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Nationalisation">Nationalisation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tilling_Group&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Nationalisation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As part of the government's moves toward nationalisation of the transport industry, the <a href="/wiki/Transport_Act_1947" title="Transport Act 1947">Transport Act 1947</a> resulted in formation of the <a href="/wiki/British_Transport_Commission" title="British Transport Commission">British Transport Commission</a> (BTC). The railway companies were nationalised from 1 January 1948 with the result that their major stake in the Tilling and BET bus companies passed into public ownership from that date. Tilling sold its remaining holdings to the BTC at the beginning of 1949, as did the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Motor_Traction" title="Scottish Motor Traction">Scottish Motor Traction</a> group. </p><p>Thomas Tilling (BTC) Ltd. was set up as a BTC subsidiary to run Tilling's London private hire business, which continued under nationalisation.<sup id="cite_ref-Thomas_Tilling_Ltd:_1849-1969_8-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thomas_Tilling_Ltd:_1849-1969-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>BET retained its independence but the BTC ultimately gained up to a 50% holding in 17 of its companies so, from 1949, there were still two major bus groups, the nationalised BTC (formerly Tilling) and BET (partly owned by the BTC). By 1955 the BTC and BET companies were often known as the "Associated Companies" since "the actual ownership of the buses [was] to a greater or less extent in the hands of one party".<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The ex-Tilling companies continued to be commonly referred to as the "Tilling Group" long after nationalisation and normally carried one of two standard liveries – a crimson red or a deep green (often referred to as Tilling Red and Tilling Green), each with cream relief. These liveries remained the standard after formation of the National Bus Company until a new corporate livery of NBC Poppy Red/White or NBC Leaf Green/White was introduced from late 1972. The 1930s acquisition of <a href="/wiki/Bristol_Commercial_Vehicles" title="Bristol Commercial Vehicles">Bristol</a> and ECW resulted in Bristol chassis and ECW bodywork remaining standard amongst former Tilling Group fleets through the 1970s. </p><p>On 1 January 1963, a new body, the <a href="/wiki/Transport_Holding_Company" title="Transport Holding Company">Transport Holding Company</a> (THC), took over the bus assets of the BTC, and in 1967, BET sold its remaining bus interests to THC. The <a href="/wiki/National_Bus_Company_UK" class="mw-redirect" title="National Bus Company UK">National Bus Company</a> was formed a year later, mainly from former Tilling and BET subsidiaries. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_"Tilling_Group"_–_Tilling_subsidiary_bus_companies_taken_over_by_the_BTC"><span id="The_.22Tilling_Group.22_.E2.80.93_Tilling_subsidiary_bus_companies_taken_over_by_the_BTC"></span>The "Tilling Group" – Tilling subsidiary bus companies taken over by the BTC</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tilling_Group&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: The "Tilling Group" – Tilling subsidiary bus companies taken over by the BTC"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 25em;"> <ol><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Brighton,_Hove_and_District&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Brighton, Hove and District (page does not exist)">Brighton, Hove and District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bristol_Omnibus_Company" title="Bristol Omnibus Company">Bristol Tramways</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Caledonian_Omnibus_Co.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Caledonian Omnibus Co. (page does not exist)">Caledonian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crosville" class="mw-redirect" title="Crosville">Crosville</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cumberland_Motor_Services&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cumberland Motor Services (page does not exist)">Cumberland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Norfolk_%26_Suffolk" class="mw-redirect" title="First Norfolk & Suffolk">Eastern Counties</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastern_National_Omnibus_Company" title="Eastern National Omnibus Company">Eastern National</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hants_%26_Dorset_Motor_Services" class="mw-redirect" title="Hants & Dorset Motor Services">Hants and Dorset</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lincolnshire_Road_Car" class="mw-redirect" title="Lincolnshire Road Car">Lincolnshire Road Car</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_National" title="Southern National">Southern National</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_Vectis" title="Southern Vectis">Southern Vectis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thames_Valley_Traction" title="Thames Valley Traction">Thames Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Automobile_Services" title="United Automobile Services">United Automobile Services</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Counties_Omnibus" title="United Counties Omnibus">United Counties</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_National" title="Western National">Western National</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Yorkshire_Road_Car_Company" title="West Yorkshire Road Car Company">West Yorkshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilts_%26_Dorset" title="Wilts & Dorset">Wilts & Dorset</a></li></ol> </div> <p>After nationalisation, the group remained as a management unit within the BTC with the following changes: </p> <ul><li>Caledonian was passed to <a href="/wiki/Western_SMT" title="Western SMT">Western SMT</a> within the newly formed <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Omnibuses" title="Scottish Omnibuses">Scottish Omnibuses</a> Group</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mansfield_and_District&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mansfield and District (page does not exist)">Mansfield and District</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Midland_General&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Midland General (page does not exist)">Midland General</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Notts_and_Derby_Traction&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Notts and Derby Traction (page does not exist)">Notts and Derby Traction</a> were added via <a href="/wiki/Balfour_Beatty" title="Balfour Beatty">Balfour Beatty</a> and Midland Counties Electric Supply Company as a result of nationalisation of the electricity supply industry, 1 April 1948,</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_%26_White_Services" title="Red & White Services">Red & White</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=United_Welsh&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="United Welsh (page does not exist)">United Welsh</a> and <a href="/wiki/South_Midland" class="mw-redirect" title="South Midland">South Midland</a> were added with the nationalisation of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Red_%26_White_Group&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Red & White Group (page does not exist)">Red & White Group</a> in 1950.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Non-nationalised_Tilling_Group">Non-nationalised Tilling Group</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tilling_Group&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Non-nationalised Tilling Group"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Following nationalisation of Thomas Tilling Ltd's bus interests, a number of subsidiaries continued under separate ownership as the Tilling Group. Tilling Group was taken over by <a href="/wiki/BTR_plc" title="BTR plc">BTR plc</a> in 1983. </p><p>Companies within the Tilling Group post-1948 included: </p> <ul><li>Tilcon (formerly Tilling Construction Services Ltd), producer of aggregates and ready-mixed concrete – formed in 1970 by the merger of three existing subsidiaries,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> sold by BTR to <a href="/wiki/Minorco" title="Minorco">Minorco</a>, now part of <a href="/wiki/Anglo_American_plc" title="Anglo American plc">Anglo American plc</a>, in November 1995<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Selwood, plant and pump manufacture, sales and hire – acquired 1972<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>PASCON, created by merging Palmers, Selwood & Croker within Tilling Group, 1982, sold by BTR in 1994 and now renamed Selwood Pumps</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heinemann_(publisher)" title="Heinemann (publisher)">Heinemann</a>, a publisher acquired in 1961</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pretty_Polly_(hosiery)" title="Pretty Polly (hosiery)">Pretty Polly</a>, a lady's hosiery manufacturer acquired in 1957</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newey_and_Eyre" title="Newey and Eyre">Newey and Eyre</a>, electrical and electronic distributors</li> <li>DCE including Vokes, dust control equipment</li> <li>InterMed, health care</li> <li>Graham Group, builders merchants</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pilkingtons_Tiles" class="mw-redirect" title="Pilkingtons Tiles">Pilkingtons Tiles</a> including <a href="/wiki/Poole_Pottery" title="Poole Pottery">Poole Pottery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cornhill_Insurance" class="mw-redirect" title="Cornhill Insurance">Cornhill Insurance</a>, general insurance</li> <li>Rest Assured, beds and other furniture</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tilling_Group&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output 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The War Record of the Tilling Group of Companies 1939–1945.</i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tilling_Group&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.britishtransportfilms.co.uk/resources/tilling.html">Thomas Tilling British Transport Films Resources: Thomas Tilling Ltd. – A Brief History by Howard Sprenger</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.petergould.co.uk/local_transport_history/pioneers/people/tilling.htm">Thomas Tilling 1825–1893 and Thomas Tilling Ltd. 1897–1969 compiled by Peter Gould 1999–2005</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/server.php?show=conInformationRecord.240">Exploring 20th Century London – Thomas Tilling Ltd, London's Oldest Bus Company</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Thomas_Tilling">Grace's Guide - British Industrial History</a></li></ul> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul 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1962">Transport Act 1962</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transport_Act_1968" title="Transport Act 1968">Transport Act 1968</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Regional_Transport_Act_1984" title="London Regional Transport Act 1984">London Regional Transport Act 1984</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transport_Act_1985" title="Transport Act 1985">Transport Act 1985</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bus_Services_Act_2017" title="Bus Services Act 2017">Bus Services Act 2017</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="background:#efefef;"><div><b><span class="nowrap"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/BSicon_BUS.svg/28px-BSicon_BUS.svg.png" decoding="async" width="28" height="28" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/BSicon_BUS.svg/42px-BSicon_BUS.svg.png 1.5x, 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title="ChesterBus">ChesterBus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Citibus_Tours" title="Citibus Tours">Citibus Tours</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crosville_Motor_Services" title="Crosville Motor Services">Crosville Motor Services</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Finglands_Coachways" title="Finglands Coachways">Finglands Coachways</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Chester_%26_The_Wirral" title="First Chester & The Wirral">First Chester & The Wirral</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/GHA_Coaches" title="GHA Coaches">GHA Coaches</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glenvale_Transport" title="Glenvale Transport">Glenvale Transport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/GM_Buses" title="GM Buses">GM Buses</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Halton_Transport" title="Halton Transport">Halton Transport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Stones_Coaches" title="Jim Stones Coaches">Jim Stones Coaches</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Fishwick_%26_Sons" title="John Fishwick & Sons">John Fishwick & Sons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/JPT_Bus_Company" title="JPT Bus Company">JPT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lancashire_United_Transport" title="Lancashire United Transport">Lancashire United Transport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchester_Community_Transport" title="Manchester Community Transport">Manchester Community Transport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mayne_Coaches" title="Mayne Coaches">Maynes Bus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maytree_Travel" title="Maytree Travel">Maytree Travel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Merseybus" title="Merseybus">Merseybus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MTL_(transport_company)" title="MTL (transport company)">MTL</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Western_Road_Car_Company_(1923)" title="North Western Road Car Company (1923)">North Western Road Car Company (1923)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Western_Road_Car_Company_(1986)" title="North Western Road Car Company (1986)">North Western Road Car Company (1986)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pennine_Blue" title="Pennine Blue">Pennine Blue</a></li> <li><a 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class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Black_Prince_Buses" title="Black Prince Buses">Black Prince Buses</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BrightBus" title="BrightBus">BrightBus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Busways_Travel_Services" title="Busways Travel Services">Busways Travel Services</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Transit" title="Cleveland Transit">Cleveland Transit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Durham_Travel_Services" class="mw-redirect" title="Durham Travel Services">Durham Travel Services</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jolly_Bus" title="Jolly Bus">Jolly Bus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingston_upon_Hull_City_Transport" title="Kingston upon Hull City Transport">Kingston upon Hull City Transport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mexborough_and_Swinton_Traction_Company" title="Mexborough and Swinton Traction Company">Mexborough and Swinton Traction Company</a></li> <li><a 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Company">West Yorkshire Road Car Company</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yorkshire_Rider" title="Yorkshire Rider">Yorkshire Rider</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yorkshire_Terrier_(bus_company)" class="mw-redirect" title="Yorkshire Terrier (bus company)">Yorkshire Terrier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yorkshire_Traction" title="Yorkshire Traction">Yorkshire Traction</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Midlands" title="Midlands">Midlands</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Barton_Transport" title="Barton Transport">Barton Transport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Birmingham_City_Transport" title="Birmingham City Transport">Birmingham City Transport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diamond_West_Midlands#Birmingham_Motor_Traction" title="Diamond West Midlands">Birmingham Motor Traction</a></li> <li><a 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