The History of the Motor Bus Industry a Bibliographical Survey

Aldcroft D. H. , The Inter-War Economy: Britain 1919–1939 (1970).

Beesley M. E. , and Politi Janet , ‘A Study of the Profits of Bus Companies, 1960–1966’, Economica, XXXVI No. 142 (1969).

Booth G. , (ed.), Bus Stop (1969).

Dunbar C. S. , Buses, Trolleys and Trams (1967).

Dyos H. J. , and Aldcroft D. H. , British Transport (1969).

Feinstein C. H. , ‘Production and Productivity 1920–1962’, London and Cambridge Economic Bulletin, No. 48 (1962).

Gwilliam K. M. , Transport and Public Policy (1964).

Hibbs J. , ‘Road Transport History in Notices and Proceedings‘, J.T.H., I No. 4 (1954).

Hibbs J. , The History of British Bus Services (1968).

Hibbs J. , (ed.), The Omnibus; Readings in the History of Road Passenger Transport (1971).

Joyce J. , The Story of Passenger Transport in Britain (1967).

Klapper C. F. , ‘The Organisation of the Omnibus Industry in Great Britain’, Institute of Transport Paper, reproduced by the Omnibus Society (1950).

Klapper C. F. , ‘Presidential Address’ to the Omnibus Society (1950).

Klapper C. F. , The Golden Age of Tramways (1961).

Lambden W. , Bus and Coach Operation (1969).

Lee C. E. , ‘Sources of Bus History’, J.T.H., II No. 3 (1966).

Moore H. C. , Omnibuses and Cabs – Their Origin and History (1902).

Pollard S. , The Development of the British Economy (2nd edn, 1969).

Pollins H. , Britain's Railways: An Industrial History (1971).

Randall D. , Fifty Years a Busman (1970).

Savage C. I. , An Economic History of Transport (2nd edn, 1966).

Sherrington C. E. R. , A Hundred Years of Inland Transport (1934; reprinted 1969).

Sleeman J. , ‘The Rise and Decline of Municipal Transport’, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, IX (1962).

Stone R. , and Rowe D. A. , The Measurement of Consumers’ Expenditure and Behaviour in the United Kingdom, 1922–1938, vol. 2 (1966).

Strong L. A. G. , The Rolling Road (1956).

Beetham D. , Transport and Turbans: A Comparative Study in Local Politics (1970).

Chester D. N. , Public Control of Road Passenger Transport (1936).

Clegg H. A. , Labour Relations in London Transport (1950).

Hibbs J. , Transport for Passengers: A Study in Enterprise without Licence, Hobart Paper No. 23 (2nd edn, 1971).

Morrison H. , Socialisation and Transport (1933).

Robinson G. E. , Control of Road Transport in Great Britain (n.d., c. 1939).

Solidarity pamphlet, ‘Busmen in Action’, No. 17(n.d., c. 1964).

Sundry contributors, all anon., Transport Control in Different Countries, Modern Transport reprint (n.d., c. 1939).

Anderson R. C. , and Frankis G. , History of Royal Blue Express Services (1970).

Gailey T. W. H. , ‘The Organisation and Operation of Coaching Pools in the North of England,’ Omnibus Magazine, VII (1939).

Klapper C. F. , ‘Road, Rail and Air Coordination Possibilities’, Omnibus Magazine, V (1934).

McLachlan T. , ‘Independent Express Services from London to the Coast’, O.S. Paper (1959).

McLachlan T. , ‘The Grey-Green Story’, O.S. Paper (1936).

Nicholson L. M. R. , ‘Limited Stop! Long Distance Coach Services in Great Britain’, O.S. Paper (1938).

Osborne E. N. , ‘Ancestry and History of Green Line Coach Services’, O.S. Paper (1953).

Preece C. H. , ‘The History and Development of Express Coach Services’, O.S. Paper (1958).

Taylor E. L. , ‘Extended Tours by Motor Coach’, O.S. Paper (1963), reprinted in J. Hibbs, The Omnibus (10)(1971).

Turnham L. M. , ‘The Evolution of the Limited-Stop Coach Service’, Omnibus Magazine, XIV (1955).

Booth G. , ‘Edinburgh Experimental Vehicles’, O.S. Paper (1963), reprinted in J. Hibbs, The Omnibus (10)(1971).

Bristol Commercial Vehicles Ltd., The First 50 Years, 1913–1963 (rev. edn, 1969).

Cornwell E. L. , Commercial Road Vehicles (1960).

Hamilton Ellis C. , Popular Carriage (1954).

Georgano G. N. , The World's Commercial Vehicles, 1830–1964 (1965).

Guy Motors Ltd, Forty Years of Achievement (1965).

Hannay R. N. , ‘Feathers in their Cap’, O.S. Paper (1960).

Holland D. G. , ‘The Replacement of Buses in Bristol, 1920–1952’, Bulletin of the Oxford Institute of Economics and Statistics, XXIV (1962).

Kaye D. , Buses and Trolleybuses since 1945 (1968).

Kaye D. , Buses and Trolleybuses, 1919 to 1945 (1970).

Lee C. E. , ‘Centenary of the London Motor Omnibus’, Joint Paper, Newcomen Society and O.S. (1933).

Lee C. E. , ‘Rise and Decline of the Steam-Driven Omnibus’, Newcomen Society Paper (1951).

Lee C. E. , The Early Motor Bus (1962).

Twelvetrees R. , and Squire P. , Why Dennis and How (1945).

Bus Services in the Highlands and Islands (Highland Transport Enquiry, 1961).

Highland Transport Services (Report of the Highland Transport Board, 1967).

Internal Transport (Report of the Committee of Inquiry, Dublin, 1957).

Licensing of Road Passenger Services (The Thesiger Report) (1953).

Reports of the London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee, 1926–7.

Reports and Minutes of Evidence of the Joint Select Committee on the London Passenger Transport Bill, 1933.

Report and Minutes of Evidence of the Royal Commission on London Traffic, 1905–6.

Report of the Committee of Enquiry into London Transport (The Chambers Report) (1955).

Report and Minutes of Evidence of the Select Committee on the Railways (Road Transport) Bills (1928).

Rural Bus Services (The Jack Report) (1961).

The Rural Transport Problem in Wales (The Aaron Report) (1962).

Annual Reports of The Traffic Commissioners, 1931–8 and 1947–.

Reports and Minutes of Evidence of the Royal Commission on Transport, 1929–1931.

Transport Services in the Highlands and Islands (Highland Transport Enquiry, 1963).

Dunabin J. E. , ‘Hereford Transport’, O.S. Paper (1970).

Green F. H. W. , ‘Fifty Years of Bus Services in a Huntingdonshire Village’, T.H., IV (1969).

Hibbs J. , ‘The Shropshire Omnibus Association: A note on a Producers’ Co-operative’, T.H., II (1969).

Hibbs J. , ‘Road Passenger Transport in Ulster and its relationship with the Railways’, T.H., III (1970).

Higgins G. M. , and Mackenzie W. J. , ‘The Co-ordination of Public Passenger Transport in South East Lancashire’, Manchester School, XXII (1954).

Massey T. , and Minchinton W. E. , ‘A Note on Motor Bus Services in the Gorseinon Area of South Wales’, T.H., I (1968).

May T. , ‘Road Passenger Transport in Harrow in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries’, J.T.H., N.S. I No. I (1971).

Simey T. M. , and Campbell D. C. , Merseyside: Co-ordination of Passenger Transport Services (1935).

Storey R. , ‘Some Aspects of the Transport in Ware’, Hertfordshire Past and Present, X (1970).

Turns K. L. , ‘Monty Moreton Ltd.’, T.H., III (1970).

White P. R. , ‘Scartho and the Motor Bus’, Omnibus Magazine, 253 (1969).

White P. R. , An Industrial History of Grimsby and Cleethorpes (1970).

Dowding W. , Thirty Years of Progress in Road Passenger Transport (n.d., c. 1950).

Fulford R. , Five Decades of BET (1964).

Fulford R. , The Sixth Decade (1956).

Lee C. E. , ‘Voluntary Organisation’, Institute of Transport Paper, summarized in Bus and Coach (1948).

The Scottish Motor Traction Co. Ltd.: A Short History of the Company (1945).

Tilling J. , Kings of the Highway (1957).

Baker C. , The Metropolitan Railway (1951).

Barclay-Harvey M. , A History of the Great North of Scotland Railway (n.d.).

Behrend G. , Gone with Regret (3rd edn, 1969).

Brown G. A. , Prideaux J.D.C.A. , and Radcliffe H. G. , The Lynton and Barnstaple Railway (1964).

Christiansen R. , and Miller R. W. , The Cambrian Railways, vol. 2 (1962).

Cummings J. M. , ‘The Rise and Decline of the Railway Bus’, O.S. Paper (1957).

Hamilton Ellis C. , The South Western Railway (1956).

Gordon D. I. , Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain, vol. 5, The Eastern Counties (1968).

Hoole K. , Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain, vol. 4, North East England (1965).

Hoole K. , North Eastern Railway Buses, Lorries and Autocars (1969).

Keen P. A. , ‘Metropolitan Railway Road Services’, J.T.H., I No. 4 (1954).

Lee C. E. , ‘One Hundred Years of Railway-Associated Omnibus Services’, O.S. Paper (1937), reprinted with additional material in J. Hibbs, The Omnibus (10) (1971).

Nock O. S. , History of the Great Western Railway (by E. T. MacDermot, continued by O.S. Nock, 1967).

Pallant F. (interview with), ‘Memories of the Shotley Bus’ (GER), Handbook of the Ipswich and District Historical Transport Society, 1967–8.

Patterson E. M. , The Belfast and County Down Railway (1958).

Patterson E. M. , The County Donegal Railways (1962).

Patterson E. M. , The Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway (1964).

Pole F.J.C. , Felix J. C. Pole, His Book (1968).

Sprinks N. W. , The Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway (1970).

Thomas D. St J. , Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain, vol. 1, The West Country (3rd edn, 1966).

Vallance H. A. , The Great North of Scotland Railway (1965).

Anderson R. C. , The Tramways of East Anglia (1969).

Bonsor N. R. P. , and Ginns M. , One Hundred Years of Public Transport in Jersey (1970).

Graeme Bruce J. , ‘Bus Services on the Great North Road, between Edinburgh and Doncaster’, O.S. Paper (1947). revised and reprinted in J. Hibbs, The Omnibus (10), (1971).

Graeme Bruce J. , ‘The Development of Passenger Transport on the Clyde Coast’, O.S. Paper (1950).

Dean N. H. , ‘Tram and Bus Development in the West Riding’, Omnibus Magazine, 189 (1964).

Flanagan P. , Transport in Ireland, 1880–1910 (1969).

Ginns M. , and Osborne E. N. , Transport in Jersey (1961).

Lambden W. , ‘The Manx Transport Systems’, O.S. Paper (1964).

MacPherson E. , and Nicholson L. M. R. , ‘Road Passenger Transport in South Wales’, Omnibus Magazine, VII (1939).

Nicholson L. M. R. , ‘Small Proprietors in the Home Counties’, O.S. Paper (1931).

Osborne E. N. , ‘Transport in the Channel Islands’, O.S. Paper (1951).

Parke J. F. , and Gillham J. C. , ‘Present-Day Bus Services in Eire’, O.S. Paper (1948).

Speakman C. , Transport in Yorkshire (1969).

Anon., Premier: The Tale of a London Pirate (1962).

Baddeley G. E. , ‘Transport in the Croydon District’, O.S. Paper (1950).

Barker T. C. , and Robbins M. , A History of London Transport, vol. 1, The Nineteenth Century (1963).

Birch J. M. , ‘The Roaring ‘Twenties’, O.S. Paper (1954), reprinted in J. Hibbs, The Omnibus (10), (1971).

Burnell J. B. , ‘The London Bus’, Omnibus Magazine, XV (1956).

Gerhold P. K. , ‘London's Buses in 1876’, Omnibus Magazine, XIII, (1954).

Gillham J. C. , ‘Passenger Transport Services in the Watford Area’, O.S. Paper (1943).

Jackson W. N. , ‘The London Public Omnibus Company’, O.S. Paper (1930).

Kidner R. W. , The London Motor Bus 1896–1949 (1950).

King J. T. , and Newman A. G. , Southbound from Croydon (n.d., c. 1964).

Klapper C. F. , ‘Control of London Passenger Transport’, O.S. Paper (1932).

Klapper C. F. , ‘London Area Passenger Transport Developments’, O.S.Paper (1937).

Latchford A. L. , and Pollins H. , London General (1956).

Lee C. E. , ‘George Shillibeer, 1797–1866’, Omnibus Magazine, 218 (1966).

Lee C. E. , ‘A Chapter in London Bus History’, O.S. Paper (n.d., c. 1948), reprinted in J. Hibbs, The Omnibus (10), (1971).

McCall A. W. , ‘Bus and Tram Services from Aldgate to Barking’, O.S. Paper (1956).

McCall A. W. , ‘London Transport Services in the St. Albans Area’, O.S. Paper (n.d., c. 1960).

McCall A. W. , ‘Kingsland Road’, O.S. Paper (1961).

McCoy M. J. , ‘Recollections of a Busman’, Omnibus Magazine, 261 (1970).

Menzler F. A. A. , ‘London and its Passenger Transport System’, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, CXII (1950).

Morris O. J. (ed.), Fares Please – the Story of London's Road Transport (1953).

Nicholson L. M. R. , and Klapper C. F. , ‘Bus Services from London to the Country: Notes on their Development and Future’, O.S. Paper (1938).

Parke J. F. , ‘Road Transport in Gravesend’, O.S. Paper (1943).

Sommerfield A. , London Transport: A Record and Survey (1935).

Wagstaff J. S. , The London Country Bus (1968).

Webb H. , ‘The London Business of Thomas Tilling Ltd’, O.S. Paper (1933).

Wilson G. , London United Tramways (1971).

Cormack I. L. , Seventy-Five Years on Wheels (Barrow-in-Furness), (n.d., c. 1960).

Domin D. , ‘Buses in Basildon’, O.S. Paper (1970).

Maggs C. , Bath Tramways (1971).

Maund T. B. , ‘Local Transport in Birkenhead and District,’ O.S. Paper (n.d., c. 1958).

Jenson A. G. , ‘Early Omnibus Services in Birmingham, 1834–1905’, O.S. Paper (n.d., c. 1951), revised and reprinted in J. Hibbs, The Omnibus (10) (1971).

Gillham J. C. , ‘A History of Bolton Corporation Transport’, O.S. and L.R.T.L. Paper (1948).

Mawson J. , Bournemouth Corporation Transport (1967).

Gailey T. W. H. , ‘Passenger Transport in Bristol in the Victorian Era’, O.S. Paper, (1956), reprinted in J. Hibbs, The Omnibus (10) (1971).

Appleby J. B. , Bristol's Trams Remembered (1969).

Hearse G. , Tramways of the City of Carlisle (1962).

Klapper C. F. , ‘Carlisle as a Bus Centre’, Omnibus Magazine, VIII (1940).

Collins R. N. , Colchester Corporation Transport 1904–1964 (1964).

Flanagan P. J. , and Mac an tSaoir C. B. , Dublin's Buses (1968).

Hunter D. L. , Edinburgh's Transport (1964).

Blair J. K. D. , ‘Some Recollections of Road Passenger Transport in Edinburgh between the Wars’, Omnibus Magazine, XIII (1954).

Browning A. S. E. , Glasgow Corporation Transport Motor Buses: An Historical Survey (1969).

Gillham J. C. , History of Hnddersfield Corporation Transport (1945).

Osborne E. N. , ‘Urban Transport in Hull’, Omnibus Magazine, XIII (1954).

Goldspink H. C. , ‘Kingston upon Hull Corporation’, O.S. Paper (1967).

Markham R. , Public Transport (Ipswich), (1971).

Anon., Public Transport in Leicester 1874–1961 (1961).

Young A. D. , One Hundred Years of Leeds Tramways (1971).

Marshall R. , A History of Nottingham City Transport 1897–1959 (1960).

Anon., Plymouth Passenger Transport, Modern Transport reprint (n.d., c. 1942).

Maund T. B. , ‘Transport in Rochdale and District’, O.S. Paper (n.d., c. 1959).

Maund T. B. , ‘Salford City Transport, A History and Survey’, O.S. Paper (n.d., c. 1952).

Kell R. L. (ed.), Sunderland Corporation Transport, A History and Survey, O.S. Paper (1959).

Maund T. B. , ‘Local Transport in Wallasey’, O.S. Paper (1969).

Truman R. H. , ‘Bus Jubilee, The Growth of West Bridgford UDC Transport Department’, O.S. Paper (1965).

Mason A. J. , ‘Transport in West Bromwich’, O.S. Paper (1963).

Sixty Years of Progress (Aberdeen Corporation Transport), (1958).

Half a Century of Public Service (Accrington Corporation Transport), (1957).

50 Years of Municipal Passenger Transport (Ashton-under-Lyne Corporation Passenger Transport), (1952).

City of Birmingham Transport Jubilee (1954).

Bournemouth Transport Department Diamond Jubilee (1962).

Bradford City Transport Diamond Jubilee (1958).

50 Years of Municipal Transport Operation (Bury Corporation Transport), (1953).

Cardiff Corporation Transport Department Golden Jubilee (1952).

Coventry City Transport Golden Jubilee (1962).

Derby Jubilee (1949).

Doncaster Jubilee (1952).

Douglas Corporation, 80th Anniversary (1956).

Eastbourne Corporation Transport Department 1903–1963 (1963).

Edinburgh City Transport 1919–1929 (1929).

Halifax Jubilee (1948).

Huddersfield Corporation Passenger Transport Department: A History of the Undertaking, 1882–1952 (1952).

Kingston-upon-Hull Corporation Transport (1949).

Leicester City Transport Diamond Jubilee (1949)

Liverpool: The First Sixty Years (1957).

68 Years of Municipal Transport (Manchester City Transport), (1961).

Manchester Golden Jubilee (1951).

Newcastle upon Tyne City Transport Undertaking 1901–1969 (1969).

Nottingham Corporation (1947).

Ramsbottom UDC Transport Department Golden Jubilee (1963).

The Golden Jubilee of Rawtenstall Corporation Transport (1958).

50 Years of Municipal Transport Operation (Rochdale Corporation Transport), (1952).

Salford City Transport (1951).

South Shields Corporation Transport Department Jubilee (1956).

Southport County Borough Centenary Celebrations (1967).

60 Years of Public Service (Sunderland Corporation Transport), (1960).

Walsall Jubilee (1954).

West Bromwich Transport Department Golden Jubilee (1964).

Lee C. E. , ‘Aldershot and District Traction Co. Ltd.’, O.S. Paper (1938).

25 Years of Public Service (Aldershot and District Traction Co. Ltd), (1937).

Crosland-Taylor W. J. , Crosville: the sowing and the harvest (Crosville Motor Services Ltd), (1948).

Crosland-Taylor W. J. , State Owned Without Tears (Crosville Motor Services Ltd), (1954).

Parke J. F. , ‘Devon General’ (Devon General Omnibus & Touring Co. Ltd), O.S. Paper (1966).

Folkhard L. F. , History of Devon General (Devon General Omnibus & Touring Co. Ltd), (1966).

Baynton A. , ‘Bus Operation in a Holiday Area’ (East Kent Road Car Co. Ltd), O.S. Paper (1949).

East Kent Road Car Co. Ltd. Jubilee (1966).

East Kent Road Car Co. Ltd., Twenty Years (1936).

King J. T. , Durrant R. J. , and Robbins G.J. , 60 Years of Service to the Travelling Public of East Surrey (East Surrey Traction Co. Ltd, and its successors), (n.d. [1971]).

MacGregor D. , The National Way (Eastern National Omnibus Co. Ltd and others), (1955).

MacGregor D. , Eastern National Silver Jubilee (1955).

Dean N. H. , ‘My First Seventeen Years of Management’ (Hebble Motor Services Ltd), O.S. Paper (1959), reprinted in J. Hibbs, The Omnibus (10), (1971).

Cormack I. L. , Lanarkshire Tramways (Lanarkshire Traction Co. Ltd), (1970).

Sinclair D. M. , ‘The Post-War Development of Midland ‘Red'’, Omnibus Magazine, XII (1953).

Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co. Ltd., Diamond Jubilee (1964).

54 Years of Public Service: A Souvenir of the End of an Era (Mexborough and Swinton Traction Company), (1969).

Twenty-five Years of Private Enterprise (North Western Road Car Co. Ltd), (1948).

Northern General Transport, Twenty-One Years (Northern General Transport Co. Ltd), (1934).

Taylor N. J. R. , James A. B. , Shaw M. D. , and Roberts I. N. , ‘City of Oxford, an Illustrated History’ (City of Oxford Motor Services Ltd), O.S. Paper (1966).

Wentworth Day J. , Wheels of Service (Potteries Motor Traction Co. Ltd), (1958).

Rhondda Transport (The Rhondda Transport Co. Ltd), (1956).

Ribble Motor Services Ltd. (1944).

Humpidge C. T. , ‘The Sheffield Joint Omnibus Committee, its Origin and Development’, O.S. Paper (1963).

The Southdown Story 1915–1965 (Southdown Motor Services Ltd), (1965).

Dravers W. M. , ‘The History of the South Wales Transport Company’, Omnibus Magazine, 211 (1966).

The South Wales Transport Co. Ltd. (1937).

Klapper C. F. , Trent Motor Traction Co Ltd., Golden Jubilee (1963).

United Counties Omnibus Co. Ltd., Fleet Record and Company History (2nd edn, 1964).

Birch R. W. , ‘The Tale of “Tracky” (Yorkshire Traction Co. Ltd), Omnibus Magazine, 117 (1958).

Yorkshire Traction Co. Ltd., Diamond Jubilee (1963).

Yorkshire Woollen District Transport Co. Ltd. Diamond Jubilee.

Lockyer M. H. , The Ledgard Fleet (S. Ledgard, Leeds), (1962).

Anderson R. C. , The Llandudno and Colwyn Bay Electric Railway (1968).

Truran G. H. , Forty Years of Brown Bombers (Neath and Cardiff Luxury Coaches Ltd), (1971).

Peddle J. , Red Rover, 1925–1970 (Red Rover Omnibus Ltd, Aylesbury), (1970).

Leach A. , ‘Rothesay Tramways’, Transactions of the Buteshire Natural History Society, XVII (1969).

Storey R. , ‘W. L. Thurgood Ltd., An Outline History’ (People's Motor Services, Ware), Hertfordshire Past and Present, IX (1969).

Bowen D. G. , and Callow J. , The Cardiff Trolleybus (1969).

Brearley H. , The Development of the Trolleybus (1957).

Brearley H. , Bradford Trolleybuses 1911–1960 (1960).

Chalk D. L. , ‘Silent Service’ (Bournemouth Corporation), O.S. Paper (1962).

Chalk D.L. , Bournemouth Trolleybuses (1969).

Deans B. T. , Glasgow Trolleybuses (n.d., c. 1966).

Denton A. S. , ‘Forty Years of Trolleybuses’, O.S. Paper (n.d., c. 1951).

Eyre D. M. , Heaps C. W. , and Taylor C. , Manchester's Trolleybuses (1961).

Joyce J. , ‘The Decline and Fall of the British Trolleybus’, Omnibus Magazine, 195 (1964).

Maidstone and District Motor Services Ltd, Hail and Farewell: History of Trams and Trolleybuses in Hastings and Bexhill (Hastings Tramways Company), (1959).

Riley C. F. , ‘Nottingham's Trolleybus System’, O.S. Paper (1969).

House J. D. P. , and Robbins G. , ‘Traffic Emergency’, O.S. Paper (n.d. [1972]).

Eyre D. M. , Manchester's Buses (1971).

Thomson L. A. , By Bus, Tram and Coach in Walthamstow (1971).

Collinge T. B. , and Ashcroft B. , 52 Years of Ribble (1972).

Atkinson J. B. , and Robbins G. , The London B- Type Motor Omnibus (1971).

Report of the Departmental Committee on the Licencing and Regulation of Public Service Vehicles, 1925.

Report of the Select Committee on Transport (Metropolitan Area), 1921.

Report of the Advisory Committee on London Traffic, 1920.

Report of the Committee on London Motor Coach Services (The Amulree Report), 1922.