Celebrating 100 Years of Buses in Southampton

The year 2019 marks 100 years of continuous bus operation in the city of Southampton. The first route, No2, began operation on Thursday 31st July 1919. To celebrate this, 100 years later, on the evening of Wednesday 31st July 2019, the members of the Southampton & District Transport Heritage Trust (S&DTHT) marked the occasion with a re-creation of that route for members and friends using three former Southampton Corporation vehicles. These were Guy Arab III 64 (FTR 511), AEC Regent V 367 (BTR 367B) and Leyland Atlantean 133 (TTR 167H). As you can imagine the course of the route has changed over the intervening 100 years, but the best was done to re-create the original journey and a description of the history of the route written by member, John Ashbridge is included in this DVD case. The Independent Transport Videos cameras were invited to record the evening’s activities for you to see.