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  Super Prestige 14 Stockport...

  Stockport's smart red and cream buses and trams were a familiar sight in and around the town, and in Manchester and elsewhere. Earlier trolleybuses were but a distant memory when the trams finished in 1951, and its fleet of open platform double-deckers included the last such vehicle placed in service in this country.

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  Prestige Series No.19 Venture of...

  In this, the 19th in Venture's best-selling Prestige Series, the North-East is again under the spotlight. Author Eric Hutchinson looks at the fleet and operations of one of the best-loved independent operators in that area or any other.

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  Prestige Series No. 7 Tyne Tees...

   in the North of England from 1929 to 1975, operated by a group of companies including North Western, Northern, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire Woollen, Lancashire United, East Yorkshire, Crosville, Hebble, Ribble and United. The services were absorbed into National Travel Express in 1973. The complete story of the routes is told with a selection of photographs...

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  Prestige Series No.14 The Thirties

  last few copies might have slight marks 

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  Super Prestige 13 Bolton...

  Bolton's buses and trams were always well turned out in the municipal livery. Bus operation began early, trams finished in 1947, but the undertaking made its mark in the Bennett era with innovative and trend setting designs and liveries.

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  Prestige Series No.35 South Coast

  by Bob Rowe

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  UK & Tram & Light Rail Systems

  This new edition covers the systems of Blackpool, DLR, Edinburgh, LUAS, Metrolink, Midland Metro, NET, Supertram, Tramlink and Tyne & Wear Metro. Fully updated to July 2014, it is illustrated in colour throughout. 64 handy pocket sized pages, full colour card covers. The ideal companion for your tramway visits or just for reference.

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  Northern Coachbuilders

  This long-awaited history of NCB explains the connection with Ringtons Tea, and then recalls the meteoric rise and equally dramatic end of one of the best-known coachbuilders of the post-war years. The involvement of the company in wartime aircraft production, details of the passenger and commercial vehicle output and the origins of the Smiths Electric...

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  West Coast Motors - A 90th...

  This latest book in our series of A4 colour publications traces the development of the company from its origins in Campbeltown at the south end of the Kintyre peninsula, to its present day operations which cover an area north to Fort William and east to Glasgow.

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  Cumberland Motor Services...

  Cumberland Motor Services was founded as Whitehaven Motor Services Company in 1912 and this publication has been prepared to celebrate its centenary. It does not attempt to be a history of the company as the known history, up to 1996, has been covered in the author's previous books, British Bus Systems No 1.

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  Prestige Series No.25 Trent 1

  One of the early constituents of the great British Electric Traction organisation. It built up an intensive network of services based on Derby for which it had one of the most interesting fleets of buses and coaches, including for many years vehicles manufactured by the Midland Red company. Volume 1 takes the story from the beginnings to the end of World...

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  Prestige Series No.36 Yorkshire...

  Using many photographs of GHF Atkins, this volume in The Prestige Series illustrates the vehicles of Yorkshire Traction since 1969, through to 2006 and evidence of Stagecoach. A remarkable collection of pictures with a brief history of the company.

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  Super Prestige 17 Northern Roadways

  Northern Roadways was a Scottish independent operator which is best remembered for its pioneering coach services between central Scotland and the south of England. This book also covers the local services which were provided by an assortment of second-hand double-deckers, most of which are illustrated in this volume. 96 pages softback, 130 black &...

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  Super Prestige 8 West Riding 2

  West Riding 1 was published in early 2004, the year in which the West Riding Automobile Company would have celebrated its Centenary. It followed the company history from the tram era through to its loss of identity when finally absorbed by Arriva in 2000.

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  The Impact of Atlanteans in the...

  By David Toy

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  One & Two Halves to the Clock

  By C Plucknett

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  Prestige Series No.28 United...

  By J Banks

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  Prestige Series No.31 Doncaster...

  By R Holmes  The First 30 years.

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  Prestige Series No.32 Doncaster...

  From the 1950's By R Holmes

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  Prestige Series No.29 Growing up...

  Early reminiscences of an enthusiast in London and the South East in the 1950s. What starts a bus enthusiasts off on his interest? How does such a seemingly mundane subject exert such a fascination? Author Barry Turner recalls early postwar inner London as a drab place: greyness; dismal Victorian streets; bombing aftermath; shabbily dressed people; smoke...

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