num_pages: 96
description: The North Western Road Car Company is just a fading memory now but for almost exactly fifty years its red and cream buses served a broad sweep of Englands North West from the Cheshire plain to the Pennines and from Manchesters industrial mills to the threshold of the Potteries. It was known as a friendly company familiar as a commuter bus in Stockport or market-day transport in rural Peak Forest or as a fast express coach to London.Eventually through no fault of its own the company found itself in the wrong place at the wrong time and was dismembered to satisfy bureaucrats poring over a map. The name was revived briefly in the 1980s but today the only buses with the proud name North Western on their sides are to be found in museums.This book isnt a history of the company  its a taste of the days when a North Western timetable could be found in every home in its territory providing a lifeline and a cheerful wave. Paul Williams has collected a unique set of photos taken between the 1950s and the 1970s from the collection of the Museum of Transport Greater Manchester to show that North Westerns memory is worth saving.
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title: North Western Buses
publisher: Amberley Publishing