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The Reading Transport Society spent years searching for a site where their vehicles could be exhibited and operated, and were instrumental in setting up The Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft in 1969, where all of the preserved vehicles are normally stored. The Society was rebranded as the British Trolleybus Society in 1971, reflecting the wider ...
A transport museum is a museum that holds collections of transport items, which are often limited to land transport (road and rail)—including old cars, motorcycles, trucks, trains, trams/streetcars, buses, trolleybuses and coaches—but can also include air transport or waterborne transport items, along with educational displays and other old transport objects. [1]
In the United Kingdom the first trolleybus systems were inaugurated on 20 June 1911 [1] in Bradford and Leeds, although public service in Bradford did not commence until 24 June. [1] Coincidentally, the UK's last trolleybus service also operated in Bradford, on 26 March 1972. [1] [2] A Walsall trolleybus at the Black Country Living Museum
The Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire trolleybus system once linked the city of Nottingham, in the county of Nottinghamshire, England, with Ripley, in the neighbouring county of Derbyshire. Opened on 7 January 1932 ( 1932-01-07 ) , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] it replaced the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire tramway , between the same termini.
In 2011, the museum was the largest trolleybus museum in Britain, housing some 50 vehicles, including some imported from abroad, and about half of this number could be used to give rides to the public over an oval two-way circuit. [2] By 2019, the number of vehicles had increased to over 60.
See also Fort Smith Trolley Museum, ... Bristol: Electric c. 1890s: August 1, 1935 ... Operation into Virginia, 1923 – August 25, 1956. Florida
The exhibits are “Journey Stories” and “Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program, 1942-1964.”
1 Tilling-Stevens single deck 1924, hybrid petrol trolleybus; 8 Sunbeam W 1944-45 rebodied by Roe 1960–62, 4 scrapped 1969; 7 Sunbeam F4 1950 rebodied by Roe 1962-65; 5 Sunbeam F4A Burlingham bodied front entrance bought from Reading in 1969 [6] Livery was dark or a pale/mid green, initially with cream above. From 1932 some buses had silver ...