Monday, February 06, 2012

The last days of Derby's trolleybuses

Eight minutes of trolleybuses trundling around Derby accompanied by a commentary on the finer points of the town's transport history may be too much of a good thing for some readers, but here goes.

They ran in Derby between 1932 and 1967, and this footage must have been shot shortly before the system closed down.

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6 comments:

  1. Jock Coats06 February, 2012 23:27

    Some suicidal overtaking :)

    Have you seen this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghfklQz3Qgk&feature=related

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  2. Jock Coats06 February, 2012 23:28

    This one, even

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  3. trolleygwyn07 February, 2012 20:18

    Be still my beating heart!!

    Incidentally, in 1955 a Derby conductress was fined - in the magistrates' court! - for the heinous offence of displaying an inaccurate side blind on a bus.

    Even Blair didn't criminalise that!

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  4. Charlieman07 February, 2012 21:08

    There's a Vauxhall Viva HB at about 3'30" so that bit of the film is after September 1966.

    My vote for scariest overtaking manoeuvre goes to the white Austin A30 saloon.

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  5. Charlieman07 February, 2012 21:21

    I've been run over by a tram, Jock.

    Unfortunately, I didn't get to see what the underside looks like.

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  6. Anonymous22 June, 2012 20:06

    TROLLEYBUSES DO NOT TRUNDLE!

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