Buses, trams and commercial vehicles: general interest

The period after April 1974 brought about major and irrevocable changes to bus operations in Doncaster and the surrounding communities to the north-east of the town.

This book takes a look at the most popular type of bus - the open-top bus.

The first buses started running in Northampton in the 1920s and as the years progressed they were synonymous with high standards of maintenance and good service.

The North of England has long been an area of immense interest to bus enthusiasts.

Eastern Coach Works, known as ECW, was based in Lowestoft in Suffolk.

The Bristol Omnibus Company can trace its origins to 1875, when Sir George White formed the Bristol Tramways Company.

The origins of Leyland lorries are found in steam wagon manufacture in the town of Leyland, Lancashire.

The bus scene around Southampton and its surrounding towns in the 1970s and early 1980s was one of change.

John Law has been visiting Oxfordshire and photographing the county's buses and coaches since 1973.

Public transport began in Barnsley in 1902 with the opening of the Barnsley & District Electric Traction Co.

The Ayrshire Road Run was instigated in 1993 as an adjunct to the established annual vintage rally organised by the Ayrshire Vintage Tractor & Machinery Club (AVT&MC).

In the 1970s the state-owned National Bus Company operated services across England and Wales, and one of the largest of its thirty-six constituent bus companies was the huge Crosville Motor Services.

By 1970, the boundaries of the county of Kent had been finalised, with parts, including Bexley, Bromley and Erith, being lost to Greater London.

Kelvin Central Buses came together as a result of a merger between Kelvin Scottish and Central Scottish, both companies created by the Scottish Bus Group in 1985 as it prepared for deregulation in 1989.

Golden Miller was a rare bus operator permitted to run bus services within London Transport's vast monopoly area.

The city of Salisbury, Wiltshire, is renowned for its magnificent cathedral, whose spire is the tallest in England.

Fife, a council area and historic county of Scotland, is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire.

Stretching from Lundin Links on the north shore of the Firth of Forth around the coast to the southern shore of the Firth of Tay, North-East Fife is a largely rural area.

One of the most evocative reminders of Victorian ingenuity at the British seaside is the much-loved cliff lift.

This collection features images of buses taken throughout most of Northern England although it mainly concentrates on the historic counties of Lancashire and Yorkshire.

The Bristol Lodekka derived from a prototype of 1949.

The National Bus Company was the creation of the 1968 Transport Act, which merged the bus operations of the Tilling Group and the British Electric Traction Company.

Suffolk was once the territory of the Eastern Counties Omnibus Company, with two municipal operators and several notable independents also running bus services in the county.

Dating back to 1921 and originally operating from a base in the small Northamptonshire town of Irthlingborough, United Counties expanded significantly during the 1920s and 1930s, firmly establishing themselves in the county of Northamptonshire, as well as a network of services in south Lincolnshire, south Leicestershire and the Stony Stratford area of Buckinghamshire.

Before Southdown became part of the National Bus Company, it was a well respected organisation.

Even though it is nearly forty years since the last vehicles left the Southall factory, the products of the Associated Equipment Company, more commonly known as AEC, are still synonymous with quality and reliability.

Dumfries and Galloway - the historic counties of Dumfriesshire, the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright and Wigtownshire - is a largely rural area of south-west Scotland.

Kingston upon Hull Corporation's motorbus fleet was always varied and interesting.

Though they serve one of England's smallest counties, the smaller operators in Bedfordshire contain some very interesting vehicles.

Blazefield commenced operations in 1991, having bought the final shares in the former AJS Holdings group.

Dublin Bus was formed back in February 1987 when services were split out of Coras Iompair Eireann (CIE) and has, in time, become a modern and forward-thinking bus operator.

The story of Midland Red is well known in enthusiast circles, and those lucky enough to have experienced the company at its peak can well remember the fleet of nearly 2,000 bright red vehicles not only cheering up the industrial areas of the Black Country and the East Midlands but blending seamlessly with the bucolic charms of the Vale of Evesham, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Shropshire.

Advertising on public transport in the UK has been common practice since the early days of the horse-drawn bus.

This book continues the story of the erstwhile Western SMT company.

The Second World War had a profound effect on public transport in the West Midlands.

Yorkshire Rider was created out of the 1985 Transport Act, which became known as Deregulation.

Today's London Buses, covers the London bus scene of the last ten years, including pictures of bus types used in the capital on its major services.

In this, the fourth edition of the Transport Philately series the author looks at the treatment of transport using roads rather than rail or air.

The first trams to be operated in West Bromwich belonged to the South Staffordshire Tramways Company, which began operating double-deck steam trams from Handsworth to Wednesbury in 1883, eventually extending the route to Dudley.

Coaches have long been a part of life in Britain, from the days of eighteenth-century stage coaches galloping along muddied tracks to air-conditioned fleets cruising the motorways of the modern day.

In the mid-1950s there were rumours that the Northern line was to be upgraded from manual operation to an automated line.

Steam power led the transport revolution in England throughout the nineteenth century, but was crippled on the road network by punitive legislation.

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

Climb aboard Big Blue and ride along with veteran trucker, Long-Haul Larry as he tells tales of his journeys across America's heartland.