Includes postcards and photographs on transport in York between 1909 and the 1950s, including early colour postcards. Subjects include:
York transport vehicle maps;
One York Press photograph of a fish market trader with an electric battery bus in the background;
24 colour and sepia tone postcards of means of transport in York;
34 photographs of the horse tramways;
16 photographs showing the construction of electric trams;
12 photographs including the inaugural tram, 20th January 1910;
60 photographs of electric trams in the York station area, Dringhouses and Acomb;
12 photographs of the city walls and Lendal Bridge, including a disabled tram minus its trolley;
30 photographs of trams on their way to and from Haxby Road, and four sepia postcards of trams on the same route;
Four photographs showing Bishopthorpe Road to South Bank;
16 trams on the route between Hull Road and the Beeswing, including those caught up in a religious procession;
One large photograph of a tramcar and crew outside the Beeswing Pub;
16 photographs of trams on the Fulford route, including during Military Processions;
One night photograph of the last celebration and public journey of the Electric Tramcar, and a larger copy of the photograph dated 1935;
Four photographs of the Electric Battery Bus between Clifton and Heworth;
12 photographs of trolley buses, with two larger photographs;
30 photographs of motor buses in York, primarily West Yorkshire Buses.
