Buses, trams and commercial vehicles: general interest

McGill's Bus Services is a bus operator based in west central Scotland, with its headquarters situated in Greenock, Inverclyde.

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

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.

Starting at London City's eastern terminus, Aldgate, this book begins with the red central bus routes radiating out to Essex, featured together with the Green Line coach services.

Throughout their existence from 1904 until 1981, the Birmingham & Midland Motor Omnibus Company were an idiosyncratic operator whose area of operations ranged from the Welsh Marches and Shropshire in the West to Northamptonshire and Rutland in the East and from Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire in the South to Staffordshire and Derbyshire in the North.

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

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

The Ford Transit is one of the most successful commercial light vans of all time and it has been the best selling light van in the UK and other parts of the world for over fifty-two years.

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

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

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

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.

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

Tipper lorries have been part and parcel of road transport since the beginnings of the age of motor vehicles.

The Darlington Transport Company came about as the result of deregulation, eventually becoming the subject of the infamous Darlington Bus War.

Long before motorised transport, movement of animals was by means of walking individual beasts, or by herding or droving.

Walsall's bus fleet was always idiosyncratic, reflecting particularly the ideas of their General Managers.

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

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

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

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

From 1933 to the end of the 1960s, most of the bus services in Hertfordshire were in the hands of London Transport's country services, with standardised green buses.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

In the late 1980s, when he first took an interest in the buses he was travelling on, Kenny Barclay wouldn't have imagined in his wildest dreams that he would ever own one.

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.

Robert Appleton's superb images stretch back to 1970, featuring the buses of the Eastern Counties Omnibus Company Ltd and the Eastern National Omnibus Company Ltd.

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.

Classic trucks are an important part of our heritage and are supported by many enthusiasts in the preservation world and the general public.

Local bus and tram services in Glasgow were traditionally operated by the Corporation Transport Department, which had a monopoly in the city limits from 1930 onwards.

Mit der Erfindung der Freizeitparks erkundet der Leser eine spannende und gleichsam lehrreiche Reise durch die Geschichte von Freizeitparks.

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.

The Bristol Lodekka derived from a prototype of 1949.

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

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

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

AEC Lorries explores the story of lorry use in the last fifty years, showing the diverse use of the vehicles and their configurations for many different types of work, with a focus on one of the great British manufacturers - AEC.

Strathclyde Traction covers the former Strathclyde Region Council area of the west of Scotland, stretching from the southern end of the Western Highlands to the Southern Uplands, which was formed by merging the city of Glasgow with the counties of Ayr, Bute, Dumbarton, Lanark, Renfrew, Stirling and parts of Argyll.

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.

Essex has long been full of interest for followers of Britain's bus industry.

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.

John Law has been photographing Britain's buses since the early 1970s.

Large companies operated bus and coach services within the city of Aberdeen and within the surrounding countryside of Aberdeenshire and further afield.

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.