On The (Old) Buses

[Jim Hardie]

Could anyone tell me which year the first one man buses operated in Sheffield or Rotherham please?

[Padders]

Could anyone tell me which year the first one man buses operated in Sheffield or Rotherham please?

 

I"ll have a guess at 1969, Jim. (Sheffield) I drove the first one man bus out of herries rd bus garage, sunday morning 4 30am, but can"t remember the precise date.

[Voldy]

From Charles Hall's book; A pilot scheme for o-m-o was introduced in July 1967 on the Bakewell via Bamford route. By July '68 the Manchester and Huddersfield / Halifax routes had been included. The first (sample) double-deck bus was No.101, a Park Royal-bodied Atlantean converted to o-m-o in August 1968. Further (purpose built examples) were on order from Park Royal and arrived in 1968.

Padders seems to have remembered well!

[St Petre]

I"ll have a guess at 1969, Jim. (Sheffield) I drove the first one man bus out of herries rd bus garage, sunday morning 4 30am, but can"t remember the precise date.

 

What route were you going to at that time on a Sunday ?

[Padders]

What route were you going to at that time on a Sunday ?

 

79, 89, Parson Cross circular. 79 went city PX yew lane city.. 89 went city yew lane PX city.

[heatherj]

I remember when you could go anywhere for 10p (2p for children) because the fares were subsidised by the sky high rates in Sheffield at the time.

 

Also remember a ticket machine where you dropped coins in and machine "photocopied" the coins onto the back of your ticket.

[hillsbro]

...a ticket machine where you dropped coins in and machine "photocopied" the coins onto the back of your ticket.

Those were the " Videmat" machines - see here for example, and also here.