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Bibliographical references for books in English with titles beginning by B
Chapter 3: Other vehicles: buses, fire engines, pickups, suvs, trolleybuses, trucks, etc.

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Gray, Paul (1943- ), Malcolm R. Keeley & Monty Russell (1944- ), Birmingham city transport: a history of its buses and trolleybuses (Glossop, Derbyshire: Transport Publishing, 1977). 190 p., illustrations (map), 21 x 30 cm, ISBN: 0903839180. Prepared on behalf of the 1685 Group and the Birmingham & Midland Motor Omnibus Trust.
Birmingham Corporation Transport (London: PSV Circle + Omnibus Society, 1967-1968). [Fleet history; PD9 + PD10]. 2 vols, illustrations (12 p.), 20 x 21 cm.
NOTES ON CONTENTS (vol. 1): Subtitled: "1903-1940", 1967.
NOTES ON CONTENTS (vol. 2): Subtitled: "1941-1967", 1968, 68 p.
Collins, Paul, Birmingham Corporation Transport (Shepperton, Surrey: Ian Allan Publishing, 1999). [Ian Allan transport library]. 2 vols, illustrations (maps), 24 cm, ISBN: 0711026270 (vol. 1, hc). + 0711026564 (vol. 2, hc).
NOTES ON CONTENTS (vol. 1): Subtitled: "1904-1939", 128 p.
NOTES ON CONTENTS (vol. 2): Subtitled: "1939-1969", 128 p.
Aldridge, John, Ken Blacker, Gavin Booth, Stewart J. Brown, Ken Glazier & Alan A. Townsin, Birth of the Routemaster (Harrow Weald, Middlesex: Capital Transport Publishing, 2004). 96 p., illustrations (70, bw/c), 23 x 26 cm, ISBN: 1854142801 (hc). Compiled by J. Whiting.
TABLE OF CONTENTS: A new bus for London; In Durrant's own words; Designing the body; AEC and the Routemaster; Other interests; Motor bus v. trolleybus; Naming the new bus; The RM's reception; Developments in 1955; Trips on the prototypes; Passenger comments; In the country; Prototypes to production; Lightweight but lasting; Towards a bigger bus; Early problems; Building the bodies; Union matters.
Lane, Kevin, Black & White (Hersham, Surrey: Ian Allan Publishing, 2003). [Glory days]. 96 p., illustrations, 20 x 25 cm, ISBN: 0711029547 (hc).
Black & White: a pictorial reminiscence 1926 -1976 (Yarnton: Oxford Bus Preservation Syndicate, 1978). 94 p., illustrations (maps, portraits), 22 x 30 cm.
Blackpool (London: PSV Circle, 2003). 2nd ed., [Fleet history; PC20]. n. p., llustrations, 21 cm (sc).
Dougill, David, Blackpool's buses (Glossop, Derbyshire: Transport Publishing, 1982). 136 p., illustrations (bw, drawings), 21 x 26 cm, ISBN: 090383989X (hc). + 0903839849.
NOTES ON CONTENTS: Covers from 1921 to 1982.
Stanier, David J., Blue Bus Services: an illustrated history of the well known Derbyshire bus company whose operations ended on 5 January 1976 following a disastrous fire (Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire: Pearson, 1985). 2nd ed. 80 p., illustrations, 29 cm, ISBN: 0907864198.
OTHER AND/OR PRIOR EDITION(S): Ilkeston: Moorley's Bible and Bookshop, 1979.
Birchmeier, John, Blue buses of Forest Road: the story of Pioneer Coaches, Bexley, Sydney (The) (Albury, NSW: [author], 2002). vi, 94 p., illustrations (bw/c, maps, portraits), 21 x 30 cm, bibliogr. ref. p. 94, ISBN: 0646419994.
Simpson, Frank D., Blue line, HB, CB, and SG: a history of the Southern General Omnibus Co. (London: Omnibus Society, 1980). 12 p., illustrations, 25 cm, ISBN: 090130736X (sc).
Lee, Roy H., Blue Motors remembered (The) (Chatham, Kent: Roadmaster Publishing, 1994). 95 p., illustrations (bw, maps, portraits), 17 X 24 cm, ISBN: 1871814510 (hc).
Townsin, Alan, Blue Triangle: Alan Townsin takes a nostalgic look at AEC buses (Glossop, Derbyshire: Venture Publications, 1994). 259 p., illustrations, 21 x 26 cm, ISBN: 189843204X (hc).
OTHER AND/OR PRIOR EDITION(S): Glossop, Derbyshire: Transport Publishing, 1980.
Condie, Allan T. (comp.), Bluebird era: Alexander's single deck buses & coaches, 1934-52 (The) (Nuneaton: Allan T. Condie Publications, s. d.). [Alexanders fleet history; 1]. 60 p., illustrations, 30 cm, ISBN: 1856380467 (sc).
Booth, Gavin & Stewart J. Brown, Bodybuilders (Shepperton, Surrey: Ian Allan Publishing, 1987). [British bus industry; 1]. 128 p., illustrations, 24 cm, ISBN: 0711016429.
Healey, Keith, Bolton 100 (Manchester: Greater Manchester Transport Society, 1999). 24 p., illustrations, 21 cm.
Roberts, C. G., Bournemouth trams and buses (Trowbridge, Wiltshire: Oakwood Press, 1972). [Locomotion papers (ISSN: 0305-5493); 59]. 82 p., illustrations (bw, maps), tables, 22 cm, bibliogr. ref., ISBN: 0853611076 (sc).

Morris, Colin, Bournemouth transport (Hersham, Surrey: Ian Allan Publishing, 2002). [Glory days]. 96 p., illustrations (bw/c, maps, portraits), 19 x 25 cm, bibliogr. ref., ISBN: 071102877X (hc).

Bournemouth transport centenary brochure, 1902-2002 (Bournemouth: Bournemouth Transport Ltd, 2002). 40 p., illustrations (bw/c, 1 map), 30 cm.
Bowler, David R. H., Bournemouth trolleybuses (Yateley, Hampshire: Trolleybooks, 2001). 264 p., illustrations (maps), 31 cm, ISBN: 090423519X. With the collaboration of the British Trolleybus Society and the Trolleybus Museum Co.

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