Old Buses

by David Kaye

Overview

Interest in old buses has increased enormously in recent years, so that there are now probably over two thousand of these vehicles restored and preserved for future generations. Some were discovered up to fifty years after their withdrawal from passenger carrying, serving as summer houses, tool sheds or for other purposes. Hundreds of hours of loving care were expended on them so that they can now be seen as they looked in their prime.This book traces the development of the omnbus through the horse-drawn era to that of mechanical propulsion, when, after experiments with steam and electric battery units, the gasoline engine reigned supreme until just before the second world war.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780747806509
Publisher:	Bloomsbury USA
Publication date:	03/04/2008
Series:	Shire Library
Pages:	56
Product dimensions:	5.87(w) x 8.27(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

David Kaye has been writing books on buses and trolleybuses since 1960. He is also a regular contributor to Classic Bus Magazine. Since 1988 he has helped to edit the Lincolnshire & East Yorkshire Transport Review. He has made a special study of the 1930s, the period when he spent his early childhood in Southdown territory in Worthing, and remembers the arrival of the 'gearless' buses in 1934. Twenty years later he spent a short time as a conductor in his home town. Since 1973 he has lived in Louth, Lincolnshire, and was mayor of that town in 1998/99.

Table of Contents

Preface to second edition, 4
The horse era, 5
The Edwardian period, 10
The period of the pirates, 18
Regulation and reorganisation, 26
Theb second world war and its aftermath, 30
Modernisation, from 1950 to the 21st century
Rallies, runs and running days, 47
Further reading, 49
Places to visit, 50
Index, 55