Stanley King
has been a connoisseur of trolleybuses since he first
saw an AEC 'Q' trolleybus in his home town of Bradford at the age
of four, even sending suggestions to the General Manager of
Bradford City Transport at the tender age of nine.
Stanley led a public campaign to save Bradford's trolleybus
system in the sixties, and in 1970 joined the council in a bid to
either save the trolleys, or at least give them a decent funeral.
He is currently the shadow transport chairman on West Yorkshire
PTA, and makes sure that trolleybuses are kept on the agenda.
This video is of a talk given by Stanley King at the Black Country
Living Museum in June 2002. He was invited to give a talk on the
history of trolleybuses, by the Black Country Museum Transport
Group, on the occasion of their bi-annual trolleybus rally.
Included in the video are some of Stanley's own collection of
photographs, archive footage of various Wolverhampton
trolleybuses filmed by John Hughes and Ernie Wilson in the
sixties, and current video footage of ex-Bradford trolleybuses (735
and 792) traversing the Black Country Living Museum's ¾ mile
circuit at the June 2002 rally.
The video is available in DVD and is 55 mins in length.
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