The Tilling Group was one of two conglomerates that controlled almost all of the major bus operators in the United Kingdom between World Wars I and II and until nationalisation in 1948.
Tilling, together with the other conglomerate, British Electric Traction (BET), became the main constituents of the country's nationalised bus industry in the late 1960s and was sufficiently well known to have entered popular culture as part of London's Cockney rhyming slang (Thomas Tilling = shilling).[1]
The company continued as an industrial conglomerate after nationalisation of its bus interests; it was acquired by BTR plc in 1983.
^Thomas Tilling is Cockney Rhyming Slang for Shilling
1983. The company traces its origins to 1846, when Thomas Tilling started in business. Tilling was born in 1825 at Gutter's Hedge Farm, Hendon, Middlesex...
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to Western National and Southern National, by then controlled by the TillingGroup. The new owners continued the process of acquiring competitors and expanding...
Tramways and its manufacturing activities into the TillingGroup. It was a policy decision by the TillingGroup to adopt the diesel engine as the standard power...
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afterwards, the four railway companies reached an agreement with the TillingGroup and British Automobile Traction (T&BAT) to complete a cross-holding...
BET continued to be one of the two major bus groups in the UK, alongside the state-owned TillingGroup (owned by the British Transport Commission and...
shareholding in its subsidiary Daimler Hire Limited was sold to the Thomas TillingGroup in 1930. and, in January 1931, Daimler completed the purchase of The...
bodies to its parent company and operators within the Tilling & British Automotive Traction group on various chassis. By the end of the 1930s, the Eastern...
large group of men at a party. The knife missed his main artery by 1 mm, with doctors calling him lucky to be alive. Following the incident, Till's coach...
the National Omnibus was acquired by the TillingGroup. From then on Western National was run as a Tilling company, although the GWR retained its shares...
continued apace through the 1980s; larger companies included the Thomas Tillinggroup in 1983, and Dunlop Holdings plc in 1985. The Dunlop road tyre business...
Western National Omnibus Company, half owned by the GWR and half by the TillingGroup. In 1932, the railway transferred some of its bus services to the company...
1909, Thomas Tilling and the LGOC entered into an agreement to pool their resources. The agreement restricted the expansion of Thomas Tilling in London,...
were at Taunton and Truro in 1949. H.A. Starkey, the architect for the TillingGroup (of which the WNOC was part) designed the Taunton bus station and it...
the National Omnibus was acquired by the TillingGroup. From then on Eastern National was run as a Tilling company, although the railways retained their...
purchase negotiations with bus companies during the post-war period. TillingGroup entered state ownership in 1948, with Red and White following in 1950...
the National Omnibus was acquired by the TillingGroup. From then on Southern National was run as a Tilling company, although the railway retained its...
operation of the station had passed through industry consolidation to TillingGroup and British Electric Traction, whence it was reorganised by the Transport...
Red & White Services with the remaining operations transferred to the TillingGroup. Balfour Beatty's general construction expertise was extended during...
In November 1993, Badgerline Group was listed on the stock exchange and, on 16 June 1995, it merged with the GRT Group to form FirstBus. In 2018, Badgerline...
operating group, Thomas Tilling, as in the 1920s there was close co-operation between the two groups. In 1928 BAT was reconstituted as Tilling & British...
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