Buses, Trams & Commercial Vehicles: General Interest

The Writing's on the Truck is a pictorial look at the traditional art of signwriting on commercial vehicles, by renowned signwriter John Corah. Joh...

The last three decades of the twentieth century saw dramatic changes in the bus industry with deregulation of bus services nationally in October 19...

Throughout South West and Central Southern England Royal Blue was almost a generic term for express coach travel for more than 40 years during the ...

The Last Decade of British Trolleybuses in Colour covers the general demise of the British trolleybus from 1961 to 1972 when the last Bradford trol...

The latest book in the acclaimed Colours series covers South Yorkshire - Sheffield, Doncaster, Rotherham, Yorkshire Traction and Mexborough & S...

In October 1982, Paul Williams went to university in Newcastle upon Tyne. His first act in the city was to buy a good camera, and over the next fo...

This book looks at an important turning point in the history of the bus industry in Britain, 1967 marked the end of an era, when private and semi n...

Based in Renfrewshire, Clydeside Scottish was a member of the Scottish Bus Group and was created from the northern part of Western SMTs area. Cover...

The first trams to be operated in West Bromwich belonged to the South Staffordshire Tramways Company, which began operating double-deck steam trams...

This book looks at the wonderful variety of buses and coaches operated by British Electric Traction group fleets in the 1960s, featuring previously...

In the 1970s the main UK bus groups were the National Bus Company, the Scottish Bus Group, the Passenger Transport Executives and various council o...

The original horse tramway lines of the Aberdeen District Tramways Company opened in 1874, between Queens Cross and North Church, and St Nicholas S...

It has often been said that the world was horse-drawn before the introduction of electric tramways. So, the establishment of a new and relatively c...

Peter Tuffrey has always been fascinated by trams, just as other people are captivated by racing cars, motorcars, steam locomotives and buses. He c...

Large companies operated bus and coach services within the city of Aberdeen and within the surrounding countryside of Aberdeenshire and further afi...

Kelvin Central Buses came together as a result of a merger between Kelvin Scottish and Central Scottish, both companies created by the Scottish Bus...

Western SMT became the dominant bus operator in Renfrewshire after the Second World War, buying out competitors, but they never had a monopoly, wit...

A-Z of British Bus Bodies sets out to offer a first port of call for anyone with an interest in those who built bus and coach bodies in Britain and...