West Yorkshire Road Car Company - Thirty years gone
Aug 18, 2019 14:12:18 GMT 1
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Post by janrapacz on Aug 18, 2019 14:12:18 GMT 1
What memories do you have of the West Yorkshire Road Car Company buses and coaches?
It is now thirty years since the WYRCC’s familiar red and cream buses and coaches disappeared from our roads.
What had been one of the country’s most successful and innovative operators was taken apart and sold off as the Government of the day sought to deregulate the bus industry to open it up to competition.
The 30th anniversary of the demise of the company is commemorated in a new full colour album of photographs showing West Yorkshire buses in action in the thirty years before the 1989 takeover by Yorkshire Rider.
It features 205 full colour images of locations and street scenes throughout the company’s former operating area which stretched from the East Coast to the Yorkshire Dales and included route networks in the Harrogate, Bradford, Keighley, Skipton, Ilkley, Otley, Leeds, York and Scarborough areas.
The book’s author is former Bradford Telegraph & Argus newspaper journalist, Alan Whitaker, who covered the story of the West Yorkshire Road Car Company’s last ever service which ran from Bradford Interchange to Baildon and back on the night of 12 August 1989.
Available post free in the UK from Willowherb Publishing:
www.willowherbpublishing.co.uk/
Leyland Olympian bus turns into Vicar Lane Bus station in 1986 - Alan Whitaker Collection
West Yorkshire buses at Keighley Bus Station in November 1973 - Robert Anderson photo
WYRCC Coach waits outside Metropolis Coffee Bar on Morley Street Bradford 6 June 1973 - Jan Rapacz Collection
It is now thirty years since the WYRCC’s familiar red and cream buses and coaches disappeared from our roads.
What had been one of the country’s most successful and innovative operators was taken apart and sold off as the Government of the day sought to deregulate the bus industry to open it up to competition.
The 30th anniversary of the demise of the company is commemorated in a new full colour album of photographs showing West Yorkshire buses in action in the thirty years before the 1989 takeover by Yorkshire Rider.
It features 205 full colour images of locations and street scenes throughout the company’s former operating area which stretched from the East Coast to the Yorkshire Dales and included route networks in the Harrogate, Bradford, Keighley, Skipton, Ilkley, Otley, Leeds, York and Scarborough areas.
The book’s author is former Bradford Telegraph & Argus newspaper journalist, Alan Whitaker, who covered the story of the West Yorkshire Road Car Company’s last ever service which ran from Bradford Interchange to Baildon and back on the night of 12 August 1989.
Available post free in the UK from Willowherb Publishing:
www.willowherbpublishing.co.uk/
Leyland Olympian bus turns into Vicar Lane Bus station in 1986 - Alan Whitaker Collection
West Yorkshire buses at Keighley Bus Station in November 1973 - Robert Anderson photo
WYRCC Coach waits outside Metropolis Coffee Bar on Morley Street Bradford 6 June 1973 - Jan Rapacz Collection
