Between the Wars
In the inter war period some influential local residents (known colloquially as’ The Families’) did not want to have a direct electrified suburban railway line to Waterloo via Shepperton, Sunbury and Twickenham with Chertsey as the terminus. They also would not contemplate a road dual carriageway from Walton roundabout, via Chertsey, to Woking. This is because both these schemes would have cut across Chertsey Meads and they strongly objected both schemes on that account. 
Therefore Chertsey did not become a ‘London Feeder’, or commuter town, but continued to have the old Victorian steam ‘push-pull’ branch line service to Weybridge and Virginia Water until electrification. The No’ 90 solid wheel K type bus from Chertsey Station to Richmond was the first bus service the town saw, and was introduced by the General Omnibus Company in 1921. Chertsey ‘flappers’ out for a Sunday afternoon trip to Kew Gardens travelled on this bus type at a heady but bone numbing speed of 15 mph! 
These buses continued well past their use by date until 1931 because the K Type was the only sort that could get over the hump on Chertsey Bridge, and also meet the severe weight restrictions imposed at the time on the structure. A proposed bus garage in the town came to nothing too. Lucy Wheeler wrote her little book on the history of Chertsey.
Transport was enhanced with electrification of the railway, and an improved bus service with pneumatic tyred vehicles, including the Green Line coach service to Marble Arch and beyond. A large housing estate was built as part of the ‘Homes fit for Heroes’ policy. County Councillor John Tulk who lived in Ruxbury House made many generous bequests to the town in this period.
Converting the Abbey Barn into a youth club, a playing field for boys in Free Prae Rd, and his collection of fine furniture and Wedgwood porcelain to Sir William Perkins School. Virtually all of his generous Trusts have now since been dissipated by sale or neglect. Frank Galsworthy of Little Green Lane, cousin of novelist John, was doing his best work of mainly flower paintings during the inter war period.
On 13th June 1928 Mr Neville Chamberlain, the Minister for Health made a speech at the opening of ‘The Dingle’ public park on St. Ann’s Hill. Mrs Blaker, widow of Alfred Blaker,
took up her late husband’s post of Town Crier until 1940. The post of Town Crier has recently been revived by the Chertsey Society, (the amenity group formed in 1960, and the man with the cape and the bell is now held by a succession of volunteers.). The London County Council gave Chertsey Meads to Chertsey just before WW2.
A three wheel cyclecar called the ‘Xtra’ was made in the town and was priced at 95 guineas, but ceased production after two years in 1924. The Carden-Lloyd Amphibious Tank was built at Carden-loyd’s Wharf Works and tested on Chertsey Meads. It achieved buoyancy by having balsa wood under the steel plates, and it was sold to various governments except the British. It sported a .303 machine gun.