Buses, trams and commercial vehicles: general interest

The West Bromwich Corporation Act of 1913 gave the Corporation the powers to operate motor buses, the first of which were four Albion single-deckers that lasted for less than seven weeks before the chassis were commandeered for war work in October 1914.

In this series, Richard Stubbings traces the changing, ever-evolving nature of bus scenes around south-west and south-east England.

Introduced in 1989, the Dennis Dart became one of the most successful midibuses in the UK.

The Leeds Tramways Company was authorised to construct tramway lines in Leeds in 1871 under the Leeds Tramways Order, with the first route opening on 16 September of that year and running from Boar Lane to the Oak Inn at Headingley.

This is the story of Belfast's trolleybus system, told through an eclectic collection of over 200 photographs, from its opening in 1938 to its closure in 1968.

Having inherited various fleets in Essex and Kent, Arriva serve a number of locations throughout these two counties.

This book covers the ever-changing bus scene in Norfolk, Suffolk and northern Essex since 2016.

Heralded as one of the best examples in the bus and coach industry of deregulation working in almost textbook fashion, Oxford has enjoyed an excellent and dynamic transport system.

When London first applied as a contender to stage the 2012 Olympic Games, there was cynical speculation as to whether the transport infrastructure could cope should it win.

Based in Renfrewshire, Clydeside Scottish was a member of the Scottish Bus Group and was created from the northern part of Western SMT's area.

Control in Transportation Systems covers the proceedings of the Fourth International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)/International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)/International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) Conference on Control in Transportation Systems.

Disruption, delays, travel chaos, fierce debate and financial woe have been regular newspaper headlines since Edinburgh announced plans to bring back trams.

With a wealth of rare and previously unseen images, Southampton City Transport Buses illustrates the development of mainly diesel-powered buses operated by Southampton City Transport and its successors since the early years of the twentieth century until recent times.

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 state of Israel.

In 1979, fresh from its general election victory, the Conservative government began formulating plans to deregulate bus services and privatise the companies operating them in England, Scotland and Wales.

Merseyside is an area with a colourful bus history.

Inside one of the world's most dangerous jobs with the star of History's top-rated reality show, Ice Road TruckersThe highest-rated reality show ever to hit the History channel, Ice Road Truckers follows the heart-pounding adventures of the tough-as-nails truckers who risk peril every day to deliver goods and supplies in Alaska and across Canada's frozen north.

From the mid-1930s, many of the Birmingham City Transport bus fleet were stored pending disposal.

The British bus industry was ill-prepared for the Second World War.

In 1983, Plaxton of Scarborough addressed the threat to their market dominance from Continental coachbuilders with the Paramount, a range of luxury coach bodies which included the first purpose-built British double-deck coach body.

From a collaboration with MCW to produce buses in the 1970s through to the powerful luxury coaches of today, Scania vehicles are a familiar sight on the roads of Britain.

The Dundee & District Tramways Company began operating a service using a horse tram on 30 August 1877.

This book offers a chronological view from the oldest colour images to the latest buses.

Coventry's buses had first entered service in 1914, supplementing the tram network.

In American 1/2-ton Pickup Trucks of the 1960s, Norm Mort picks up the story of the continuing popularity of the pickup truck in America.

In Last Exit Clifford Winston reminds us that transportation services and infrastructure in the United States were originally introduced by private firms.

Traffic Planning and Engineering, Second Edition takes into account underlying trends in traffic planning and engineering.

As more and more people inhabit the Earth and live longer on it, Super Cities will explode with populations of 20, 30, even 100 millions or more.

American 1/2-ton Pickup Trucks of the 1950s reveals the important role played by the lightweight, high-production, and basic A1/2-ton pickup truck in American post-war society, a role often overshadowed by its innate ruggedness, reliability and utilitarian nature.

Formed in 1969, four years later in 1972 the state-owned National Bus Company introduced a corporate livery and identity for all its subsidiary companies and continued as such until the early 1980s, except within the Tyne & Wear and West Yorkshire PTEs where other liveries were used.

Although there had been experiments with the use of a new form of transport - the 'trackless tram' (better known as the trolleybus) - during the first decade of the 20th century, it was in June 1911 that Bradford and Leeds became the country's pioneering operators of trolleybuses.

As part of the National Bus Company, Hants & Dorset Motor Service once served a large diverse area, stretching from the remote chalk uplands of North Hampshire, across Salisbury Plain through rural East Dorset to the coastal resorts of Swanage, Poole and Bournemouth, and the heavily populated areas of Southampton and Winchester.

In 1959 there were twenty-seven Corporation Transport systems in the Red Rose County.

During the 1990s and 2000s the bus and coach scene across the Midlands evolved at a much greater rate than that of the preceding decades.

Mergers, amalgamations and joint ventures have meant that the number of existing pan-European truck manufacturers can now almost be counted on the fingers of one hand.

Mercedes-Benz Trucks is not only the first new book examining the history and development of Mercedes-Benz trucks in decades, but is also the first to examine the brand's truck products and operations from a truly global perspective.

Throughout their existence from 1904 until 1981, the Birmingham & Midland Motor Omnibus Co.

Manchester and its surrounds, such as Bolton, Wigan, Rochdale, Oldham and Stockport, have always been a haven for bus enthusiasts, with a wide variety of operators and liveries to be seen.

Lavington & Devizes Motor Services (L&DMS) was not a typical West Country rural independent bus operator.

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-effective way of reaching the new, large council housing schemes on the outskirts of the city.

Kirkcaldy Corporation Tramways began to operate an electric tram service in Kirkcaldy in 1903, connecting with the Wemyss and District Tramways Company service to Leven, further up the Fife coast, which began in 1906.

David Harvey takes us on a journey on the second longest bus route that was initiated by Birmingham Corporation.

Tours are a common part of the itinerary of holidaymakers in the UK.

This book covers the operations of Jersey Motor Transport from the late 1980s, as well as looking at how the island's bus scene has developed over the last three decades, including the Easylink and Connex era.

2014 marks the ninetieth anniversary of Safeguard, which has been in business from the mid-1920s.

Fife Scottish was established in the 1960s as part of the Scottish Bus Group, a state-owned company which operated bus services throughout Scotland.

Wessex Coaches of Bristol was certainly a company with two faces.

Chapter 1 reports on the current challenges faced by motor carriers, truck drivers, shippers, and brokers; and how these challenges impact safety, operations, jobs, and goods movement on our Nation's roads.