The Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) Anik museum has given the chassis of a first-class double-decker bus a new lease of life. The Daimler chassis, which can be seen at the heart of the museum, had been dismantled part by part and reassembled. This is an important piece of Mumbai’s transport history as double-deckers were introduced in 1937 to cope with the increasing crowd and the Daimler Company’s double-deckers were the first such buses to be introduced in the city.

The chassis prior to restoration