Where to go by Bus; Wolverhampton Corporation Transport guide book 1931
For the best part of 40 years Wolverhampton's municipal transport department appears to have issued multiple editions of a guide to the town and countryside around. It was unusual for a council owned bus undertaking to serve such a rural hinterland - usually 'out of boundary' areas were handed over to neighbouring companies but this didn't happen with the ex-WCT routes until well into the 1970s when, fianlly, Midland Red took over these rural extremities as part of a swap of urban routes that, oddly, the municipalities hadn't laid hands on! One suspects that profitability had been Midland Red's watchword! Anyhow, this is the eraliest edition I've seen, 1931, and the cover shows not a motor bus that ran these charming routes but an early trolleybus. The guide's foreword is by C Owen Silvers, the general manager and engineer, under whose enthusiasm for trolleybuses the transport department became one of the earliest proponents of trolleybuses in the UK and built up a large system assisted by the fact that Guy Motors, who built trolleybuses, were based in the town.
Where to go by Bus; Wolverhampton Corporation Transport guide book 1931
For the best part of 40 years Wolverhampton's municipal transport department appears to have issued multiple editions of a guide to the town and countryside around. It was unusual for a council owned bus undertaking to serve such a rural hinterland - usually 'out of boundary' areas were handed over to neighbouring companies but this didn't happen with the ex-WCT routes until well into the 1970s when, fianlly, Midland Red took over these rural extremities as part of a swap of urban routes that, oddly, the municipalities hadn't laid hands on! One suspects that profitability had been Midland Red's watchword! Anyhow, this is the eraliest edition I've seen, 1931, and the cover shows not a motor bus that ran these charming routes but an early trolleybus. The guide's foreword is by C Owen Silvers, the general manager and engineer, under whose enthusiasm for trolleybuses the transport department became one of the earliest proponents of trolleybuses in the UK and built up a large system assisted by the fact that Guy Motors, who built trolleybuses, were based in the town.