摘要: |
This completes Peter Waller's four-volume summarised histories of the UK's trolleybus systems. We reviewed the Yorkshire book in August Buses and those on the north of England, Scotland & Northern Ireland and London & south-east England in December. It covers 14 systems in the area sandwiched in between: five in south Wales, seven in the West and East Midlands and two on the east coast. Three - Llanelly & District, Notts & Derby and Rhondda - were operated by companies rather than councils or corporations. Three also had short lives: Rhondda's single route for fewer than three months from Christmas 1914 until an undetermined date in March 1915; Aberdare's from January 1914 to July 1925, its original eight-vehicle fleet reduced by then to three; and Chesterfield's one route from May 1927 to March 1938. |