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Coventry Buses 1914 - 1946 (Paperback)
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Although Coventry Corporation had been running a tram service since
the 1880s, the Corporation's first bus services did not come into
operation until 1914. The outbreak of the First World War that
September, however, meant that the bus chassis built for Coventry
by Maudslay were requisitioned by the War Office for Army use. When
the war came to an end, new buses were ordered from Maudslay, and
later from Daimler, and the service resumed in 1919. Bus services
expanded during the interwar years, while from the 1930s tram
services contracted. The death knell for the city's trams came with
the infamous air raid of the night of 14/15 November 1940, which
destroyed the infrastructure they required. Austerity buses and
vehicles from other corporation departments were brought into the
city to make good the losses from that night, and from more heavy
air raids that hit the city in April 1941 and August 1942. In this
book, David Harvey examines the Coventry bus fleet from when it
first began in 1914 to 1946, when the final delivery of Austerity
buses arrived in the city.
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