Buses, Trams & Commercial Vehicles: General Interest

American ½-ton Pickup Trucks of the 1950s reveals the important role played by the lightweight, high-production, and basic ½-ton pickup truck in Am...

In the eight years from 1980 when Scania introduced the 2-series trucks covered in Patrick Dyer's new book, they produced no less than 135,311 unit...

As rush hour came to a close on the evening of May 25, 1950, one of Chicago's new fast, colorful, streamlined streetcarsknown as a Green Hornetslam...

Last Subway is the fascinating and dramatic story behind New York City's struggle to build a new subway line under Second Avenue and improve transi...

San Francisco's first cable car line opened in 1873. The successful development of the electric streetcar by Frank Sprague in 1888 plus the 1906 Sa...

The Leyland National was conceived as a joint venture between British Leyland and the National Bus Company to replace all the rear-engined single-d...

Strathtay Scottish was a product of the state-owned Scottish Bus Group''s attempts to prepare for deregulation and possible privatisation in the mi...

The 56th volume in this growing series taking a nostalgic look at Britain''s transport heritage...The aim of this series is to appeal to readers of...

When one thinks of public transport in the south west over the years, two names tend to dominate; Western National and Devon General. But as this b...

The first volume in the ''Lost Tramways of Ireland'' series features the history of the Belfast system, including its origins as a horse tramway in...

Manchester and its surrounds, such as Bolton, Wigan, Rochdale, Oldham and Stockport, have always been a haven for bus enthusiasts, with a wide vari...

Merseyside is an area with a colourful bus history. Even with the municipal colours long gone and the post-deregulation mix of operators replaced w...

Philip Wallis visited West and East Yorkshire with his camera in 1962. What he didn''t know at the time was that he would capture on film a sector ...

2014 marks the ninetieth anniversary of Safeguard, which has been in business from the mid-1920s. Laurie James uses archives, memoirs and photograp...