Steel Wheels & Rubber Tyres Vol 2

Volume One ended at the point where the author had, with some reluctance, left Leeds City Transport for what at the time seemed to be a very uncertain future. On the face of things, the chances of ever holding the job of general manager of a municipal transport undertaking were just about nil, but one never knows just what life is going to bring, and if one is lucky enough to possess ambition, background and appropriate technical qualifications then who knows just what might be possible? Achieving such a post in those days depended also on a whole series of other factors, when good luck and a wife who never objected to frequent household removals were of paramount importance. In the event as you will read Geoffrey Hilditch managed to make it, but once the chair was his he speedily found that life was very different to what it had been as a lowly member of staff, or a department head, or even a deputy general manager. The buck really did stop here!