There have always been small buses used by bus companies for a
variety of reasons, but in the 1970s a number of companies employed
van-derived minibuses on experimental services such as Dial-a Ride
schemes. These were small-scale operations. From around 1984 the
majority of British bus companies started buying minibuses in bulk.
They began replacing full-size vehicles and soon whole town local
networks were being converted to their use. At first these
continued to be on small, van-derived chassis - Ford, Freight-Rover
and Mercedes-Benz - seating around sixteen passengers, but soon
larger, purpose-built vehicles began to appear from companies
sometimes unfamiliar to the British bus market. There were also
attempts to produce 'midibuses' - larger than a minibus but smaller
than a full-size bus. By the mid-1990s the boom had come to an end.
Larger vehicles started to replace many of these minibuses.
Although modern accessible minibuses are still produced and still
have a role to play, it is a far cry from their heyday. This book
looks back at the rise and fall of the minibus in British bus
services.
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