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Bus, Trolleybus and Tram Routes of Kingston upon Hull Corporation – Predecessors and Successors 1899 to 1986 – Chapter Four
Keith Easton Hedon Road Trams: M, MARoad Service Licence No’s: BH101/16, /19, /65, /71, /72, /73, /89, /91, /97, /98, /99, /100, /106/, 107, /119, /122, /123, /120. From a public transport point of view, Hedon Road has always been an industrial area, rather than a residential one. The first trams operated by the Corporation…
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Bus, Trolleybus and Tram Routes of Kingston upon Hull Corporation – Predecessors and Successors 1899 to 1986 – Chapter Three
Keith Easton Dansom Lane Road Service Licence No’s: BH101/8, /25, /26, /34, /35, /38, /39, /40, BH101/55, /82, /138, /152, Services along Dansom Lane commenced in March 1923, when the Corporation purchased the business of the Kingston-upon-Hull Passenger and Goods Company. The company traded as ‘Blue Bus Company’ and the route ran from the city…
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Bus, Trolleybus and Tram Routes of Kingston upon Hull Corporation – Predecessors and Successors 1899 to 1986 – Chapter Two
Keith Easton Beverley Road Trams: B, BC, BS, BH, BN, QB.Trolleybuses: 63, 63A, 67Road Service Licence No’s: BH101/18, /32, /33, /58, /63, /74, /75, /76, BH101/81, /86, /88, /115, /117, /118, /145, /146, /147, /148, /149, /158 Beverley Road is one of Hull’s more important trunk routes and this fact is reflected in the number…
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Bus, Trolleybus and Tram Routes of Kingston upon Hull Corporation – Predecessors and Successors 1899 to 1986 – Chapter One
Keith Easton Anlaby Road Trams: A, APTrolleybuses: 69, 71Road Service Licence No’s: BH1/9, /10, /21, /22, /51, /61, /80, /109, /110, /111 Anlaby Road and Hessle Road have the distinction of seeing the first municipally operated public transport services in the city of Hull. This commenced in July 1899, when the Corporation opened the first…
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Bus, Trolleybus and Tram Routes of Kingston upon Hull Corporation – Predecessors and Successors 1899 to 1986 – Preface
Preface Prior to 1876 there existed no provision for regular public transport within the town of Kingston upon Hull, such transport as was available being in the form of horse-drawn wagonettes. For longer distances there was, of course, the stage coach serving local townships and other towns and cities further afield, however these were declining…
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Bus, Trolleybus and Tram Routes of Kingston upon Hull Corporation – Predecessors and Successors 1899 to 1986 – Contents
Keith Easton Preface Chapter One – Anlaby Road Chapter Two – Beverley Road Chapter Three – Dansom Lane Chapter Four – Hedon Road Chapter Five – Hessle Road Chapter Six – Holderness Road Chapter Seven – Prince’s Avenue and Newland Avenue Chapter Eight – Spring Bank West Chapter Nine – Stoneferry Road Chapter Ten – …
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Old Bus Sounds – Comments
AEC Renown (Leicester City Transport) 17/02/12 – 13:29 Just been watching the above. The bus in question is stated to have a 4-speed syncro gearbox, but to my ears (and also where possible watching the driver change gear), I have to say that it is a Monocontrol gearbox. The confusing bit is that Bus…
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Old Bus Sounds
Thanks to Richard Fieldhouse for the idea to have a “Bus sounds reference library” where favourite sound clips or videos of bus sounds, engines, gearboxes or any other bus related sounds can be listed.There used to be a video player embedded into the page but Yahoo withdrew the service unfortunately, but if you click on…
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Motor Traction Company – Daimler
Photograph by “unknown” if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Motor Traction Company1899DaimlerBrazil, Holborough & Straker O26RO Two of the first, if not the first, motor-buses involving a regular service in the UK was instituted, in London, by the Motor Traction Company, which, like many other companies of the era, considered…