A visitor to one of the principal cities of the East or West Midlands
during the 1970s would not have failed to notice that all the incumbent
local bus operators were still running buses which still resembled types
which could be seen throughout Britain between the two World Wars - that
is double-deck buses with the driver seated in his own cab area with an
open space over the adjacent engine shroud. Whilst the vast majority of
these also had an open entrance at the rear, there were some types which
the passengers could board or alight through a doored-entrance at the
front. With a wonderful selection of photographs that will delight
enthusiasts of all ages, Mike Rhodes looks back on the twilight years of
half-cab buses in the Midlands.