Leicester Buses

by David Harvey

In July 1901, the Leicester Tramways Company was taken over by Leicester Corporation. Although most of the companyʼs vehicles were tramcars, there were also thirty horse-drawn buses. The first Corporation motor buses, however, did not arrive in the city until 1924; Midland Red and various independent operators ran services from earlier in the 1920s. Following the end of the Second World War, Leicester placed an order for 160 new vehicles from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1445647117
• ISBN13: 9781445647111
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 192 Pages