Who's the youngest and the oldest D-i-Yer on here?

Indeed so, exactly as shown in my link above.

Chris

There was no alternative given britain had been bankrupted by WW2

Emotional maturity?

Hexadecimal?, Octal?

Trolleybuses would have been my era there on holidays with family,

Interesting stuff. I'm sure we only used "ordinary" buses, but some of them were... er... topless.

There wasn't a trolley route along the coast; the infrastructure was never built. It mainly served inland residential areas.

The topless bus would have been a number 17 and was probably cream/white.

Did you see the policemen in summer white helmets? That was a Brighton thing.

They did , Brighton Hove and District owned some for a joint through service from Hove to Brighton but the route ceased before the rest of Brightons.

Bournemouth was still buying new as well ,they had the Uk’s last service one delivered in 1962. The other half had an older cousin who was a clippy on the Bournemouth Trolleys who told us about her work in them, apparently replacing the collector poles after a dewirement on a cold wet night with rain pouring into your eyes could be a challenge.

GH

My initial comment was about the early years of my life in West London, but funnily enough having relatives in Sussex I did see Trolleybuses in Brighton, plus a few other places. Dad worked with a firm who was involved in supplying some equipment to the round of Nuclear Power stations that were being constructed so he often stuck a weekend away onto a site visit so we travelled to a few places. It was on of those I was actually taken for a ride on a Glasgow tram as they were the last UK City system which was about to finish. I wish now I knew what his role was ,worked for a firm called Wallis and Tiernan . We were all set to move with the firm to Tonbridge but the big C got him first. As an aside the premises they were vacating in Chiswick they sold to a then little known Japanese Motor cycle manufacturer which the adults around me were quite disparaging of as some still held strong views on the Japanese and their role in WW2 and thought nobody would buy them.Honda has come along way since then.

GH

I didn't notice, and this would have been late July into August.

I *have* seen those white helmets in Rome, though.

Newcastle had trams until 1950 and I have an early memory of seeing one (aged ~4), but no recollection of riding in one. Trolley buses ran there until 1966 and were continually coming off the overhead wire. The driver/conductor used a long pole stored under the vehicle to hook it back on again. I lived in Nottingham in the early 60s and the only thing I remember (being a physicist) was that appeared to short the dynamo to assist with braking. They stopped running in 1966 too.

Pah! Those Japanese upstarts! They'll never last, we'd say. The engines rev far too fast: they'll be on the scrapheap in no time at all, we'd say. Nothing could possibly replace the solidity and heritage of our fine British mounts, we'd say.

Then we'd turn back to spending the rest of the weekend trying to fix the faults on my mate's Triumph and on my BSA. Somehow we never saw the irony of it at the time.

Nick

Edinburgh had trams until 1956. I used one (actually 2) to get to school at times. We (the family) went on one to watch the fireworks to mark the birth of the young Prince Charles. The upper deck gave a good view.

Of course, Edinburgh has trams again, but they are single deckers.

Trolley buses ran in Glasgow until the mid 60s.

I also vaguely remember going to Edinburgh Zoo in a tram ( 1st generation)

Brian

yes, there were 4 routes that went to ZooPark (1, 12 25 & 26). They passed the end of our road in Roseburn.

There were trolleybuses in east London as normal transport for me to use in the 1950s. They were replaced some time in the early 1960s because there were none left by the time I finished school in 1966.