BIRMINGHAM'S BLUE AND CREAM BUSES
Written by Malcolm Keeley
Published by Capital Transport
in 2016
ISBN: 9781854144065
- Categorised in:
- TRANSPORT
- BUSES
- BIRMINGHAM
- HISTORY
- TROLLEYBUS
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Front cover
Contents
- Stepping Stones
- The Petrol AEC Regents
- 1932 trolleybuses: 1-16
- The Morris era
- The first preselector buses: 554-563
- Trolleybus network expanded: 17-66
- Other lines of thought
- 1934-7 Daimler COG5s: 94, 564-963, 969-1033, 1039-1139
- Daimler COG5 single-deckers: 32-76
- Leylands: 964-968
- AEC Regents: 1034-1038
- 1938-9 Daimler COG5s: 102-200, 1140,1269
- Leylands: 211-295, 1270-1319
- More trolleybuses: 67-90
- World War Two buses: 1320-1331
- World War Two austerity buses: 1332-1480
- AEC rebodies - Wartime standards?
- Dual control afterlife
- The post-war prototype
- The 1945 contracts: 1481-1655
- The 1946 contracts: 1656-1930 plus 296
- The 1947 contracts: Double-deck buses 1931-2230
- New single-deck fleet: 2231-2265
- The 1948 contracts: 2266-2625 (plus 2031-2130)
- The 1949 contract: 2626-2775
- The 1950 & 1951 contracts: 2776-3000, 3003-3227
- Saving fuel: 3001-3002, 3103
- Sold on
- Overhauling the fleet 1954-1963
- Search for a new standard
- Wider trial for rear engines: 3231-3250
- The Fleetline era begins: 3251-3450, 3475-3574
- Single-deck Fleetlines: 3451-3474
- Single-deck experiments: 3651-3680
- 1966-8 Fleetline double-deckers: 3575-3650, 3681-3880
- End of Birmngham City Transport: 3881-3979
- Summary of Bus Deliveries