Huddersfield Trolleys and Buses
Jul 2018 · Amberley Publishing Limited
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In the early days of tram operations, the local borough or corporation would lay tracks that would carry the trams, while the cars would be operated by private enterprise. All this changed on 11 January 1883 when Huddersfield Corporation was given government dispensation to operate its own system. The last Huddersfield tramcar operated to Brighouse on Saturday 29 June 1940 and no vehicle survived into preservation. In 1933 a complete regeneration of the transport system was undertaken when the Corporation opted to replace its ageing trams with trolleybuses. Such importance was placed on the trams (and then trolleybuses) that it was a rare sight to see a motorbus in the centre of Huddersfield before the early 1960s. After 1960, however, the Corporation converted to diesel motorbuses. In a nostalgic look back on the trolley and bus services of the town, Michael Berry looks at the history and demise of the Huddersfield system.
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Michael Berry is a Director at the Keighley Bus Museum, where he is custodian of Huddersfield Daimler Fleetline KVH 473E, and Huddersfield Corporation MVH 388, a 1953 AEC Mandator tower wagon. He trained as a car mechanic and has been involved in bus preservation since the 1990s. He has previously written on Leeds buses, and owns Leeds 916, (3916 UB) an AEC Regent V of 1960. He currently lives in Huddersfield.
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