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Minibus Mania : The Rise and Fall of Minibuses 1970s-1990s, Paperback / softback Book

Minibus Mania : The Rise and Fall of Minibuses 1970s-1990s Paperback / softback

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There have always been small buses used by bus companies for a variety of reasons, but in the 1970s a number of companies employed van-derived minibuses on experimental services such as Dial-a Ride schemes.

These were small-scale operations. From around 1984 the majority of British bus companies started buying minibuses in bulk.

They began replacing full-size vehicles and soon whole town local networks were being converted to their use.

At first these continued to be on small, van-derived chassis - Ford, Freight-Rover and Mercedes-Benz - seating around sixteen passengers, but soon larger, purpose-built vehicles began to appear from companies sometimes unfamiliar to the British bus market.

There were also attempts to produce 'midibuses' - larger than a minibus but smaller than a full-size bus. By the mid-1990s the boom had come to an end. Larger vehicles started to replace many of these minibuses.

Although modern accessible minibuses are still produced and still have a role to play, it is a far cry from their heyday. This book looks back at the rise and fall of the minibus in British bus services.

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