Buses, Trams & Commercial Vehicles: General Interest

In the 1960s the majority of bus photography was in black and white, but an increasing number of people were also working with colour. This new alb...

In Birmingham, a city once renowned for its engineering enterprise, tram passengers in days gone by were treated to an eccentric variety of rolling...

By the start of the 1930s Southdown Motor Services had been in existence for less than 15 years but it had already secured a bus operating territor...

The trams and trolleybuses that once operated in Maidstone could fairly be said to embody all that was good in providing a decent public service at...

This vivid account tells the story of the truckers who were driving from the UK to the Middle East in the early 1980s. The journey was rough, tough...

Evocative, entertaining, nostalgic and informative; Trams is a fascinating anthology of some of the best stories and descriptive articles written a...

Southdown Motor Services, renowned for their impressive fleet of green and cream buses and coaches, also operated an impressive fleet of ancillary ...

Following the deregulation of bus services in the United Kingdom in 1986, it did not take long for many distinctive local liveries to disappear. On...

Plaxton launched the President model in 1997 but construction of the type did not commence until 1999. DAF was the first chassis manufacture to tea...

Birmingham City Transport''s association with Crossley Motors came about after 1945, when BCT required a large number of buses to be delivered quic...

The motor bus did not come to Woking until 1911. Unlike many other areas the town was not subsumed into the network of the major territorial operat...

Imagine a bus system that is fast, frequent, and reliable, what would that change about where you live? Buses can and should be the cornerstone ...

On 1 April 1974, the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive was created by merging the municipal bus fleets of Bradford City Transport, Halif...

By 1970, the boundaries of the county of Kent had been finalised, with parts, including Bexley, Bromley and Erith, being lost to Greater London. Th...