Collection: Museum of Transport, Greater Manchester

Collection-level records:

• Collection overview (Cornucopia)

  Transport Collection

  The collection of over 80 vehicles (buses, taxis, tramcars, coaches and various parts) date from 1890 to 1980 and are mainly from the North West of England. The museum holds items such as the only Atkinson double decker bus made, the last traditional front-engined double decker bus, the last rear-loader double decker bus, the first double decker bus designed to be operated by one person, the first production Leyland National and the first SELNEC standard bus. There is also an example of one of the new batch of Crossley buses that replaced the last trams to operate up to 1949 on the Manchester to Hazel Grove route. A more recent example is a minibus (D63 NOF) introduced in 1986 by the Bee Line Buzz Company. Various other vehicles include Manchester trolleybus 1250 and Manchester 25, a 1953 single decker. The collection of associated smaller objects is wide-ranging and includes items such as uniform button, street furniture, payment tokens, ticket machines, bus stops and bus shelters, blinds, posters, timetables, publicity material and hand painted tour boards.

  Subjects

  Transport

  Photographic Collection

  There is an extensive archive of 5,000 photographs.

  Subjects

  Photographic equipment

  Archives Collection

  The Museum’s extensive archive collection of over 80,000 items of transport interest dates from the 19th century to the present day. This includes a large coloured canvas map of the South Lancashire Tramways system (18×12 feet) and various tickets, wage records and the other documents relating to Greater Manchester’s road passenger transport history.

  Subjects

  Archives

  Source: Cornucopia

  Date: Not known, but before 2015

  Licence: CC BY-NC