Willesden Bus Garage
Willesden Bus Garage opened its doors for service as a motorbus garage by London General Omnibus Company (LGOC) on the 7th of October 1912.
In the early days it had close links to the Metropolitan Steam Omnibus Company Ltd, which started its operations in Hammersmith in 1907.
The company decided to change to petrol engine buses and signed an agreement with LGOC, who then provided around a hundred B -TYPE vehicles.
An aerial view of Willesden Bus Garage in 1921, Courtesy: Wembley Matters Blog -July 2020
Willesden Bus Garage, circa 2007
In 1900, the London General Omnibus Company bought land for stables at Pound Lane. Seven horse-buses an hour were running by 1903. Horse-drawn services were withdrawn in 1911, despite protests by locals, who did not trust the new motor buses, and the site became the present Willesden Bus Garage. The bus garage has been an important local employer for over a hundred years, with 958 people working there in 1949.