| This fourth volume in our series of books on Huddersfield area bus services takes as its major theme the passenger transport operations of Hansons, for years the district's premier coaching business. Hansons were equally well known for their buses, remembered crawling up Lockwood Scar or engaging low gear on some testing approach to a windswept eminence such as Scapegoat Hill or Blackmoorfoot. You will find accounts of several prewar Holme Valley omnibus proprietors, not least Wilson Haigh, who was prepared to serve destinations such as Holme, Parkhead and Honley village, whos residents had been ignored by Huddersfield Corporation, We have also included some supplementary material on Baddeleys not available when Baddeleys of Holmfirth was published in 2002. Finally a modern parallel is described in the form of Holme Valley Parish Council's pioneering development of a minibus network during the early and mid 1980s. Contents:
- Part 1
- Hansons
- Appendix 1 – Ticketing
- Appendix 2 – Fleet List
- Appendix 3 – Summary of 1947-66 Rebuilding Programme
- Appendix 4 – Typical Bus Destination Blind (1960s)
- Part 2
- 1 – Wilson Haigh
- 2 – Walter Bower and Blue & White
- 3 – GW Castle
- 4 – Beardsells
- 5 – Horse Drawn Omnibuses
- 6 – Other Charabanc Operators
- 7 – Baddeleys Revisited
- 8 – Holme Valley Parish Council, Minibus Pioneer
Continent: Europe
Country: UK |
