Buses, trams and commercial vehicles: general interest

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

Based in the city of the same name, Bristol commenced production of buses at the turn of the twentieth century, initially for its own bus fleet.

In 1961 the maximum length of single-deckers was increased to 36 feet.

From its launch in 1958, the Leyland Atlantean played a pivotal role in the British bus industry.

Few transportation maps can boast the pedigree that London's iconic 'Tube' map can.

Aided by various TR Specialists, ample photographic support, his own experiences & those of other amateur restorers, the author explains in some detail the characteristics of the various Triumph TR Sports cars, what to look out for when purchasing one & how to restore it cost effectively.

The Plaxton Supreme was the epitome of classic British coachbuilding and was the most popular British-built coach body of the 1970s and 1980s.

There is a head-turning charm about heritage transport.

At the turn of the century Volvo found itself in a three-way tussle with Dennis and DAF to design and produce Britain's first low-floor double-deck buses.

Formed in 1984, following the decision by the National Bus Company to divide the Eastern Counties Omnibus Company Ltd into smaller parts, Cambus Holdings became responsible for operating services in Cambridgeshire and West Suffolk.

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.

A pictorial history of buses and coaches of the period, drawn from a British transport photographer’s vast collection.

Mainstay of London Buses Ltd’s fleet into the 1990s, London’s MCW Metrobus fleet of M class remained almost completely intact by the time of privatization in the autumn of 1994.

This volume is the latest in a series of tramway books covering Britains post war tram networks.

This book has been commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the closure of Glasgow's remarkable tram system, when over 250,000 people lined the city streets on 4 September 1962 to watch a final procession of some 20 trams representing different periods in the history of the undertaking.

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.

During the history of Britain's electric tramcar fleets, many thousands were manufactured of which the vast majority saw out their operational life with a single owner.

Propelled towards the end of the 1990s by accessibility imperative requiring low floor buses both in London and the rest of Britain, Dennis developed a tri axle Trident double decker for Hong Kong and then adapted the design as a two axle version for Britain.

There is a head-turning charm about heritage transport.

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.

Mainstay of London Buses Ltd’s fleet into the 1990s, London’s MCW Metrobus fleet of M class remained almost completely intact by the time of privatization in the autumn of 1994.

Filled with color photos, a look at the variety of London’s buses in recent years.

This book has been commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the closure of Glasgow's remarkable tram system, when over 250,000 people lined the city streets on 4 September 1962 to watch a final procession of some 20 trams representing different periods in the history of the undertaking.

Formed in 1984, following the decision by the National Bus Company to divide the Eastern Counties Omnibus Company Ltd into smaller parts, Cambus Holdings became responsible for operating services in Cambridgeshire and West Suffolk.

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 tramway systems small and large.

In 1904, when Leicester Corporation opened its state-of-the-art electric tram network, it enjoyed a monopoly on routes and convenient central terminal points.

Located in the Chiltern Hills, Luton has a rich transport history, being home to London Luton Airport and Vauxhall Motors.

In 1904, when Leicester Corporation opened its state-of-the-art electric tram network, it enjoyed a monopoly on routes and convenient central terminal points.

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

The 1970s were a decade of consolidation for British Rail, at a time when the company was fighting against the rise in the use of motor transport, both for passengers and freight.

Since 1952 former London buses have found new homes across the whole of the UK as well as in over seventy countries across the world, and this book takes a wide look at those that gained new lives outside the capital.

Preston Corporation Tramways was formed in 1904, later becoming Preston Corporation Transport Department.

On 1 April 1974, the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive was created by merging the municipal bus fleets of Bradford City Transport, Halifax Corporation with Calderdale Joint Omnibus Committee, Huddersfield Joint Omnibus Committee and Leeds City Transport.

London buses are red and have been for over a hundred years.

Hampshire is the largest county in south-east England, despite losing the Isle of Wight and other areas during the 1974 boundary changes.

Scottish Motor Traction, or SMT, was originally founded in Edinburgh in 1905.

Although several coaching pools for express services were established in the late 1920s, it was not until 1972, three years after the formation of the National Bus Company, that a nationwide, fully coordinated express coach network came into being under the National banner.

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 Magicbus (Stagecoach).

When Wolverhampton's horse-drawn trams were replaced by the unusual surface-contact Lorain system electric trams in 1902, it was one of the first such networks in the country.

For many years a major importer of new British buses, the former colony of Hong Kong, with its high-rise living, is dependent on public transport.

Shuttle Buses, based in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, celebrates thirty years in business in 2020.

As with everything, the coach industry has changed beyond all recognition over the last few decades.

In 1985 the Scottish Bus Group decided to split the Border and East Lothian operations of Eastern Scottish from the rest of the company.

Andrew Cole takes us on a journey looking at West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive, or WMPTE, buses, and those used by its successors.

The Isle of Wight is one of England's smallest counties and is situated off the Hampshire coast in southern England.

The North West of England was the birthplace of public transport, with the first rail and road services for the public created there.

A number of books have chronicled the history and vehicles of the Bristol Omnibus Co.

Set in the Aire Valley of West Yorkshire and surrounded by several towns, Bradford maintains a proud transport history and was the first - and last - city in the UK to operate trolleybuses.