Road & Motor Vehicles: General Interest

The deregulation of the bus industry in 1986 led to the formation of new bus companies in Central Scotland such as Clydeside, Kelvin, Strathtay and...

In the last century, the trolleybus developed into a successful provider of public transport in many towns and cities around Britain. It is often ...

As Britain entered the 1990s, the character of East London was changing rapidly. The docks, once the mainstay of the area, had closed and the Londo...

A beautifully illustrated history of the Leyland bus, one of the most important British buses of the twentieth century. With full production histo...

David Devoy was first introduced to many of the independent Lanarkshire bus fleets back in the 1960s when he saw many of them on football hires to ...

Bedford Buses and Coaches provides a detailed review of the entire range of purpose-built Public Service Vehicle (PSV) bus and coach chassis that c...

The Dundee & District Tramways Company began operating a service using a horse tram on 30 August 1877. In 1885, steam traction was introduced, ...

In 1986 professional writer Robert Hutchison became a passenger on a 10,000-mile trip through fourteen countries in a Scania 111. He was sampling t...

Strathclyde Buses can trace its roots back to the tram services provided by Glasgow Corporation, which started running buses in 1924 as a more cost...

The London & Birmingham Railway was the first major line in Britain and it was the greatest achievement of its engineer, Robert Stephenson, the...

How many of us grew up saying they wanted to be a bus driver? How many of us actually did it? Peter Findlay can answer yes to both questions. This ...

Leaping across the Avon Gorge, the Clifton Suspension Bridge is a statement of Victorian bravado, ingenuity and engineering prowess. It was Brunels...

The aim of this series is to appeal to readers of all ages, perhaps for different reasons...In this volume: We travel back to the year 1969, as eve...

The aim of this series is to appeal to readers of all ages, perhaps for different reasons...In this volume: We travel back to the year 1968, as eve...

Kent is one of the most diverse and interesting of all English counties. Stretching into London at its north western extremity, and at the same tim...

As home of the oldest motor bus company in the world, Eastbourne forms an excellent basis for a detailed analysis of bus transport. The history of ...