Julian Walker says:
Huddersfield is my town of birth and where my family comes from. The Corporation was a staunch trolleybus operator and withdrawals did not start in earnest until the 1960s. When the system closed in July 1968 there were just six remaining in the United Kingdon, and within four years these too were gone - neighbouring Bradford was the last to close, in March 1972.
Julian Walker says:
This is an ex-Reading machine, one of five sold to Teesside Municipal Transport after the Reading system closed in 1968. The Burlingham-bodied Sunbeams were purchased by Reading in 1961 in happier times when there were no plans to abandon the system.
Teesside had planned to keep trolleybuses operating until 1973, but found it increasingly difficult to obtain spare parts and closed the system in April 1971. That left just Bradford still operating trolleybuses in the UK, and within a year they too were gone.
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