Road & Motor Vehicles: General Interest

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...

This book continues the story of the erstwhile Western SMT company. Stagecoach West Scotland operates in west central and south-west Scotland, in a...

The 1980s was a decade of change in the bus industry. 1980 itself saw the Market Analysis Project (MAP), which, although primarily aimed at subsidi...

This book looks at municipal operators in England and Wales in the 1960s. Going back to the very first horse-bus or tram operations in Victorian ti...

This fascinating and informative book looks at the Tilling Group of bus companies during the 1960s. These operated approximately half of the inter-...

Using photographs from Jim Blake's extensive archives, this book examines the turbulent period in the history of London's buses immediately after L...

This book, covering the years 1946-1952, continues Colin Druce''''s major history of Southdown. In 1946 Southdown, like other bus operators in Brit...

Dover was one of the first towns in Britain to have electric trams, its system dating back to 1897. Thanet followed suit in 1901. The two systems a...

'Buy a ticket and get on board.' Sunday HeraldStarting on a green bus in Leeds and culminating atop the number 94 as it speeds towards Trafalgar Sq...

`Baltimore Streetcar Memories is a photographic essay of the Baltimore, Maryland streetcar system. Baltimore was the first United States city to b...

LONDON'S FAMOUS RT-TYPE BUSES were an iconic symbol of our Capital city in the 1950s, before being superseded by the Routemasters. Most were built ...