Buses, trams and commercial vehicles: general interest

The principal bus operator on the Isle of Wight is Southern Vectis, the name a nod to the Romans who once inhabited the island.

Essex held great fascination for bus enthusiasts in the 1960s and early 1970s.

The Leyland Atlantean was in production from 1958 until 1986 and around 15,300 buses of the type were built over this period.

The first trams ran in Bournemouth in 1902 but the efforts to introduce trams into the Bournemouth and Poole area began in the 1880s.

While bus services in Britain have generally been in decline since the heady days of the early 1950s, there has been one area of bus operation that has seen significant growth.

The nineteenth-century craze for building pleasure piers around the coast of Britain has left a legacy of seaside fun unmatched around the world.

Traffic congestion has become a major problem in many of England's towns and cities.

The period 2010-2019 was one of change and colour in Reading's bus services.

Few people would have envisaged that when the fledgling D&G Bus commenced operations in April 1998 with four vehicles that twenty-five years later it would become larger than its neighbour, First Potteries.

Over the past hundred years, the scrapping of life-expired buses has changed in numerous ways.

The Crosville bus company started bus operations in Liverpool in 1922 and by the end of the decade was the leading operator across the Wirral and into Lancashire, Cheshire and North Wales.

Since deregulation Merseyside has seen its fair share of independent bus operators come and go.

Stagecoach South Wales is a subsidiary of the Stagecoach Group and was formed through the acquisitions and consolidation of Aberdare Bus Company Limited, Crosskeys Coach Hire Limited (Glynn Williams), Islwyn Borough Transport Limited, Parfitts Motor Services Limited, Red & White Services Limited, Rhondda Bus Services Limited and The Valleys Bus Company Limited.

For many people the halcyon days of Potteries Motor Traction was the decade between the management buyout of the company from the National Bus Company in 1986 until the merger of Badgerline and GRT to form First Bus in 1997.

The 2000s saw the end of a significant number of haulage and vehicle-manufacturing companies as well as a series of company takeovers.

When double-deck motorbuses were first introduced they were all open-top, like the horse buses that preceded them.

A critical examination of London Transport's ill-fated MB and SM buses, which failed to meet expectations and ended an era.

Although Coventry Corporation had been running a tram service since the 1880s, the Corporation's first bus services did not come into operation until 1914.

Be prepared for exam day with Barron's.

El libro trata de lo que sucede dentro de un colectivo durante los viajes al trabajo, a la escuela, etc.

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.

The story of bus and tram services in the Edinburgh area in the period following the deregulation of bus services has been rich and varied.

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

In 2025, South Wales-based Edwards Coaches celebrates 100 years since its founders formally ventured into public transport.

Essex is a diverse county ranging from the urban areas in the south, such as Brentwood, Basildon and the huge Southend conurbation, to the less built-up central and northern areas, which include interesting places such as Chelmsford, Braintree, Halstead, Colchester, Billericay, Finchingfield, Clacton and Walton on the Naze.

For seventy years, Duple was one of the two best-known names in coachbuilding in Britain.

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.

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

For seventy years, Duple was one of the two best-known names in coachbuilding in Britain.

Philip Wallis visited South and West Wales several times with his camera between 1961 and 1963 and captured on film a great variety of bus operators in that part of the country.

Nowadays, the European coach market is dominated by a few manufacturers whose products are sold across the Continent and beyond.

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

Public transport in London in the 1980s presented a very different face to today.

Initially operating on contract work, CT Plus Yorkshire had a huge impact during its last decade of significant expansion before closure in summer 2022.