Super Prestige 46 Great Yarmouth

Municipal transport in Great Yarmouth was a feature of the town for many years, and this new book covers horse trams, electric trams, and then buses, continuing until the formation in 1986 of a limited company. Yarmouth had an unusual history with a number of strong-minded General Managers, including the idiosyncratic Geoffrey Hilditch, who pulled the purchasing policy in different directions. It also had to cope with the vast fluctuations between traffic in the summer and in the winter, and had other peculiar features including special services during the herring season. Its fleet in later years was varied, until it was standardised on the AEC Swift, which proved much more successful here than in many places. The book has been thoroughly researched and has many photographs and also maps showing the development of the system, as usual with this author.