Road & Motor Vehicles: General Interest

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...

White Van Man is a larger-than-life presence on Britains road, but hes no fool. Given the choice, he inevitably opts for a Ford Transit and indeed ...

The buses on Britains roads went through a period of great change between 1950 and 1986. In 1950 the bus manufacturers were at last recovering from...

From 1940 until the mid-1970s Britain supplied Portugal with many of its bus chassis. In the capital city of Lisbon, the local operator was CCFL, w...

Southdown Motor Services was a well-known and respected bus and coach operator formed in 1915 and based in the south of England. Its vehicles were ...

From its formation in 1919 in Wigan, Lancashire, Northern Counties Motor & Engineering Company Limited grew to become one of Britains most pro...

Londons West End Buses in the 1980s looks at Londons buses in and around the West End during a time of great change. Bus routes were put out to com...

The Enviro400 was introduced in 2005 and has become a popular model among bus operators around the UK, as well as in Hong Kong. Initially available...

Andrew Mead offers a pictorial history of the Grey-Green company, who operated vehicles from the First World War until 2000. The company was formed...

This is the second book by Martin Jenkins and Charles Roberts, about transport in the Isle of Man. The first volume covered the railway network, w...

This is the latest book, in a series that covers the history of Britain's post war tram systems, this volume covers the networks in Wales,the Isle ...

Dudley was connected by tram to various parts of the Black Country, first by steam trams and then by electric ones. This book takes a route-by-rout...

The McKindless bus company started off as a small operation of a few buses, a lorry and two coaches in 1987, and traded under the name of Chartered...