Nick Larkin reports on a family who have clocked up 100 years in the bus industry
A Coventry family’s 100 years of involvement with buses has been documented in a fascinating new book. This isn’t the story of a long-standing independent operator; Roger Bailey’s clan has done everything from running a service taken over by Midland Red in 1932 to working for that operator and making a major mark on Coventry’s transport history.
Author of ‘100 Years on the Buses with the Bailey Family’ Roger Bailey is not surprisingly a lifelong enthusiast and preservationist as well as being a Coventry blue badge tour guide and author of the book ‘Coventry Transport 1940-1974.’ His great grandfather, Tom, sold his steam boat business at Stourport-on-Severn in the early 1920s and set up Bailey’s Motor Bus Service, which ran to Kidderminster until Midland Red bought the operator’s goodwill in 1932.
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