Buses, Trams & Commercial Vehicles: General Interest

The Blackpool Electric Tramway Company commenced operation of a conduit system of railed vehicles along the Promenade between Cocker Street and Sta...

This book offers a chronological view from the oldest colour images to the latest buses. It focuses mainly on buses, although many Australian-built...

In the early 1980s Potteries Motor Traction was part of the state-owned National Bus Company with all vehicles in standard NBC poppy red livery. Th...

East Lancashire Coachbuilders was first registered in October 1934 when two former Massey Bros of Wigan employees decided to set up their own compa...

Until the last quarter of the twentieth century Maltese buses had generally had locally constructed bodywork, often a modified chassis of UK or Ame...

The AEC Regal IVs and Regent IIIs, or to give them their class prefix letters RFs and RTs, are among the most revered buses to have served London o...

Scanias first venture into the British double-decker bus market came in 1973, when with partner MCW, based in Birmingham, they produced the Metropo...

Londons traditional Night Bus network was once small, infrequent and little used. That changed from April 1984 when London Transport expanded the n...

This book, the first ever written on the subject of Leyland buses in Israel, tells the story of the company's decades-long partnership with the sta...

The last Routemaster to ply a proper London bus route retired to the garage back in 2005. But over 15 years later, this indestructible bus still po...

The Alexander ALX400 was the first low-floor bus body built in the United Kingdom, first appearing in 1997. The first ALX400s were placed on the DA...

From its launch in 1958, the Leyland Atlantean played a pivotal role in the British bus industry. The first double-deck bus in the UK to offer the ...

It is almost 100 years since the first tram was preserved in Britain, in the century since then a great variety of trams have been saved from tramw...

From 1914 until 1969, when it was absorbed into WMPTE, Birmingham City Transport had various periods when they hired buses for evaluation. These de...

Following the 1920s, bus transport experienced several decades of strong growth with an explosion of new operators and bus types. Charabanc trips w...