Although there had been experiments with the use of a new form of transport - the 'trackless tram' (better known as the trolleybus) - during the first decade of the 20th century, it was in June 1911 that Bradford and Leeds became the country's pioneering operators of trolleybuses. There had been earlier experimental users - in places like Hove and London - and as the tide turned against the tram in many towns and cities, the trolleybus became a popular alternative with the trolleybus comping to dominate the provision of local public transport in places like Derby and Ipswich. This volume - one of four that examines the history of all trolleybus operators in the British Isles - focuses on the systems that operated in Wales, the Midlands and East Anglia. AUTHOR: Peter Waller is a life long, transport enthusiast and historian, a founder of the Online Transport Archive which preserves transport photographic archives. He has written many books on tramways, buses and railways over the years and this volume on British Trolleybus Systems is his latest. He was for many years the senior commissioning editor for Ian Allan Publishing and is an authority on many aspects of transport history.
