Buses, trams and commercial vehicles: general interest

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

Commercial Cars Limited was the name of a new company set up in 1906 in south London to build a motor lorry, using what was then known as the Linley gearbox, which had degree of pre-selection in its use.

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

From its formation in 1919 in Wigan, Lancashire, Northern Counties Motor & Engineering Company Limited grew to become one of Britain's most prominent bus builders.

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

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

From 1914 until 1969, when it was absorbed into WMPTE, Birmingham City Transport had various periods when they hired buses for evaluation.

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.

Hub van Doorne and his brother Wim set up a transport engineering company at Eindhoven, the Netherlands, in 1928.

When the words Buses of North Staffordshire are used most people will think of PMT, and later First, running through the urban areas of Stoke-on-Trent, with additional vehicles from a few medium-sized family-owned operators thrown in for good measure.

At the start of the 1980s, George Fairbairn took up employment in Rochdale, in the North West of England.

In the early 1980s Potteries Motor Traction was part of the state-owned National Bus Company with all vehicles in standard NBC poppy red livery.

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

The final two decades of the twentieth century saw great changes in the bus and coach industry in Great Britain.

In 1928, Edinburgh Corporation Transport was formed as the corporation increasingly began to run buses as well as trams in the city.

The Enviro200 was a new midibus launched by Transbus International in 2003, but was unsuccessful.

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.

Although the Surrey towns of Walton-on-Thames and Weybridge were for many years served by the London bus network, there were also a number of small scale locally based operators running bus services, before selling out to London Transport in the 1930s.

Southdown Motor Services, renowned for their impressive fleet of green and cream buses and coaches, also operated an impressive fleet of ancillary vehicles.

On 26 October 1986 Britain's bus services were deregulated.

'You see them everywhere' was the slogan adopted by Bedford when advertising its commercial vehicles in the 1930s and it held true for many decades.

In 2018, five gas buses using Scania NU280D chassis with stylish AD E40D MMC City bodywork were presented by Nottingham City Council.

Trolleybuses were first introduced in Portugal by SMC in Coimbra in February 1947 and used Saurer, Sunbeam and BUT single-deckers that were all in service by 1954.

Car production at Volvo began in 1926 in Stockholm with a prototype.

Two large bus companies once ruled this rural part of the United Kingdom.

When bus and coach manufacturers or bodybuilders brought out a new design, they would usually provide a demonstration vehicle for would-be purchasers to try out before buying.

Keen to quickly expand during the 1980s, Stagecoach purchased three former National Bus Company subsidiaries during its sell-off in 1986/7 to give it a foothold in the English bus market.

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.

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

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

The larger bus operators, whether municipal or company owned, have traditionally trained their own new drivers.

The 1980s was a decade of change in the bus industry.

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

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.

Birmingham City Transport's association with Crossley Motors came about after 1945, when BCT required a large number of buses to be delivered quickly, with many manufacturers unable to fulfil orders in the aftermath of the war.

This book covers bus and coach operators in South East Wales between 1968 and 1979.

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

The preservation of our transport heritage is something that the British excel at.

The last decade of Routemaster bus operation in London saw over seven hundred surviving RMs and RMLs divided between several new companies following the privatization of London Buses Ltd’s subsidiaries in 1994.

1955 opened with optimism for Hull's trolleybuses.

There have always been small buses used by bus companies for a variety of reasons, but in the 1970s a number of companies employed van-derived minibuses on experimental services such as Dial-a Ride schemes.

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

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.

Bury Corporation Transport boasted a fleet of more than ninety buses - mainly produced by Daimler and Leyland.

Levine, Grengs, and Merlin marshal a compelling case to shift to accessibility-oriented planning, providing much needed conceptual clarity as to what accessibility is and is not.

Buckinghamshire Buses tells the story of the omnibus in the county, from its roots in stagecoach travel to the present day.

This is the story of Walsall's trolleybus system, from its opening in 1931 through to its eventual closure in October 1970.

Scania's first venture into the British double-decker bus market came in 1973, when with partner MCW, based in Birmingham, they produced the 'Metropolitan' double-decker.

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