Career
After Cambridge, he joined London Transport.
At the outbreak of World War II, Bull joined the Transportation Branch of the War Office, then was commissioned as a lieutenant-colonel into the Royal Engineers. He went to Africa to work on the Afloc Plan, a logistical scheme to support the British Eighth Army by transporting supplies for it from the mouth of the River Congo to the River Nile and Egypt, by river, road and rail, avoiding the U-boats in the Mediterranean.
In 1943, he transferred first to GCHQ Middle East, then to the headquarters in Kandy of Lord Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia.
After leaving the army, Bull returned to his career with London Transport as its chief Staff and Welfare Officer. In 1955, he became a member of the London Transport Executive, joined the London Transport Board in 1962 and was its vice chairman, 1965–1970 and vice chairman of its successor, the Greater London Council run London Transport Executive from 1970 to 1971. After that, until 1987 he worked as a consultant on underground railway systems around the world, based in London.
He became President of the Institute of Transport in 1969. He died in London in 2004.
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