GOSPORT AND FAREHAM OMNIBUS COMPANY (England). Bus ticket

GOSPORT AND FAREHAM OMNIBUS COMPANY (England). Bus Bell Punch ticket Nº E 1919. 1½d.
[The company originated in 1878 when a bill to develop the Gosport Street Tramways, a subsidiary of the Provincial Tramways Company Ltd was promoted. No results were evident until 17th July 1882 when 8 horse cars ran a 7½-minute headway route from Gosport Beach (now the ferry) via Elson Road to Brockhurst. This was one of the many Provincial Tramway systems in Portsmouth, Cleethorpes, Devonport and Cardiff. A bill to change the Companies legal name to Gosport and Fareham Tramways was proposed in 1906, but not proceeded with. It was however, duly adopted as the fleet name. A bus service form Bury Cross to Lee-on-Solent was opened up by the tramway company in 1910 and later extended to run from Brockhurst to Lee-on-Solent. The 1914-18 war terminated bus operations and in the early post war years a large number of one-bus operators appeared in the Gosport and Lee areas and through the 1920s competition with the trams grew fierce. In 1929 the Bury Cross route was converted to motor buses and the Fareham route cut back to Ann's Hill. The last trams ran on 31st December 1929 and the company changed its name to the Gosport and Fareham Omnibus Company. Seven tramcars went to nearby subsidiary of Provincial Tramways, the Portsdown and Horndean Railway, which continued until acquired by Southdown in 1935. The intensive network of services radiating from the Ferry, Haslar, Elson, Fareham Railway station and West End Estate, and a number of circular routes in Gosport were built up before the Second World War. The Company was hard pressed during the war due to the many service establishments in its area of operation; at the time of D-Day, even the veteran Leyland's saw service. Since the war the large Bridgemary estate has been served, and open toppers popularised the Stokes Bay route. One-man vehicles were introduced after 1953 on four lightly patronised routes. With nationalisation imminent, the private hire department was detached in 1947 to the parent company, Provincial Traction Company. Since 1936 the company had been the sole survivor of the once large Provincial system. In March 1969 the parent company Provincial Traction Company Limited (so renamed in 1936) was taken over by the Wiles Group and from 20th May 1969, this group was renamed the Swain Group.]

GOSPORT AND FAREHAM OMNIBUS COMPANY (Inglaterra). Billete de autobús Nº E 1919. 1½d.

GOSPORT AND FAREHAM OMNIBUS COMPANY (Anglaterra). Bitllet d'autobús Nº E 1919. 1½d.

GOSPORT AND FAREHAM OMNIBUS COMPANY (Angleterre). Billet de bus Nº E 1919. 1½d.

GOSPORT AND FAREHAM OMNIBUS COMPANY (Inghilterra). Biglietto d'autobus Nº E 1919. 1½d.

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