Road & Motor Vehicles: General Interest

At the start of the 1980s, George Fairbairn took up employment in Rochdale, in the North West of England. Over the following years, he took his cam...

Fife, a council area and historic county of Scotland, is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries to Perth ...

Ernest Sheasby arrived in the small village of Corfe Castle in Dorset around 1896. After ten years in employment, he set up shop with a horse and c...

The South Coast resort of Eastbourne claims the first municipally owned motor bus service in the world, dating from April 1903. Mick Hymans' career...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...