Coventry Buses - past and present

There is a dispute on a different site, about this issue. Can anyone confirm, when the no.22 bus started, did the no.1 bus route continue on its original route? I believe that it continued as it was. Any comments please?

Not aware of any changes, and the CCT website doesn't show any

The only change to the 22 route that I was aware of was the use of Mile Lane instead of Quinton Road.

Hi all, Bus service changes at the end of this month

According to www.cct-society.org.uk it started in January 1955. The service that later became route 1 began in March 1914. After the number 22 started, it continued to operate at the then current route until at least 1974.

For nostalgia interest, the pre-war tram and bus service numbers can be found here. And the route map at the takeover of Coventry Transport by WMPTE in 1974 can also be found on Flickr.

I've been all electric today.

Was it nice and quiet?

Hi Helen, It swished & swooshed.

One for all you bus stop fans out there! London Transport Museum images.

Thanks for the link, Neil. I saw them on FB and was thrilled to see them.

Old cellars on Broadgate revealed. Thanks to the London Transport site and Adrian James on FB. Post copied from topic Wartime miscellany on 31st Aug 2021 12:55 pm

The bus in photo was hired from London Transport. The picture also appears at a slightly different angle in Coventry Transport 1940-1974. It says it was ST 481(GK5312), an AEC Regent with LGOC body. For any one interested in buses.

I have just found Neil's picture on the London Transport site and it is dated 1940. Owen Owen would have still have had the shell of the building then.

I believe the 1940 date is wrong. The first buses to be hired came from Great Yarmouth and Southend corporations in July 1940 although were not used until after the November raids. The London Transport buses didn't arrive until 1942. If it is GK5312, then it arrived in December that year and was returned in August 1944. source: www.cct-society.org.uk/corporation/buses/foreign_t11.htm