Fleet Histories Ayrshire

Ayrshire was the holiday destination for many Glaswegians as well as having a considerable mining and manufacturing base. Stage coaches were supplanted by railways and then by buses, with two of the major towns running their own municipal tramway systems. By the late 1930s, many of the small local operators, as well as the two Corporations, had sold their operations to the SMT Group. Uniquely for this volume, the many new licensed operators who started up after the war to 1959 with their subsequent histories are included, together with extensive information on early transport in the County. Produced in the recognised fleet history format in this concluding part of the histories of Scottish bus operators, transport historians Richard Gadsby and Mike Mitchell tell the stories behind the operations in detail, and using the latest information available from digitized records and private archives. The book is illustrated with wonderful period pictures of the area.