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 Osborne's first motor bus, Tollesbury. Pictured outside Maskell's blacksmith's shop in North Road. Richard Maskell adapted the body of a London horse-bus and put it on a model T-Ford chassis. Maskell, who put seven coasts of paint on any job he did, and mixed it himself, is pictured (extreme left) with members of the Osborne Family.


Caption from More from Tollesbury Past by Keith ...
Cat1 Tollesbury-->Transport

Osborne's first motor bus, Tollesbury. Pictured outside Maskell's blacksmith's shop in North Road. Richard Maskell adapted the body of a London horse-bus and put it on a model T-Ford chassis. Maskell, who put seven coasts of paint on any job he did, and mixed it himself, is pictured (extreme left) with members of the Osborne Family.

Caption from "More from Tollesbury Past" by Keith Lovell, figure 86.
Date: 1918      


Photo: Kevin Bruce
Image ID KBC_TOL_041
Category 1 Tollesbury-->Transport


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This image is part of the Mersea Museum Collection.