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Description: | A Guy six-wheeled motor bus with rear passenger access, outside the rear of the Municipal School of Arts and Crafts (now Wolverhampton Art Gallery), in Wulfruna Street. This bus was No. 64, with a speed of around 12 mph, and was owned by the Wolverhampton Corporation Transport Department (the Wolverhampton coat of arms can be seen on the side of the bus). Charles Owen Silvers (written on the side of the bus) was the General Manager of the Department from 1915 to his retirement in 1949. He was mainly responsible for changing the "trackless tram" to the modern trolleybus, to ensure that Wolverhampton was at the forefront of trolleybus design. The bus has very distinctive advertising on its sides. Note the lettering on the forward door that specifies two seats for "males only". | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Archives | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Archives | Subjects: | Motor vehicle industry Buses First World War (1914-1918) | Temporal: | [Early 20th cent] | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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