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From Flickr: “Yorkshire Woollen District Transport Co Ltd., tours, excursions and private hire handbook, c1960” by mikeyashworth

The wonderfully titled ‘Yorkshire Woollen District Transport Co Ltd" was unsurprisingly based in the centre of the world famous Yorkshire woollen industry in Dewsbury. I always heard it referred to as "The ‘Tracckie" – oddly in the employment of Eastern Scottish in Edinburgh as some close social linsk prevailed between Read More →

From Flickr: “Leicester City Transport advertisment from Leicester Official Guide, 1938” by mikeyashworth

A very bold publication, this 1938 city guide to Leicester – all Gill Sans and modern in layout, and spirally bound, a real period touch. Interestingly, Coventry, just down the road, did a similar guide the same year – municipal rivalry! The City Transport department was keen to show progress Read More →

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