Yelloway
Tickets.
This ticket was introduced to
coincide with the launch of
the re-named
"Yelloway Motor Services Ltd" on the 9th April 1932.
Mr Herbert
Allen and Mr Maurice Edwards had now become the new directors of the
erstwhile (Holt Bros.,(Rochdale) Ltd., trading as Yelloway Services) which
had been declared bankrupt in 1931. To publicise
their new company image a unique "observation" coach was built at
the associated firm of Bromilow & Edwards Ltd., of Bolton,
Lancashire.
The new machine, mounted on a Leyland Tiger TS4 chassis,
is seen above at the Black Bull Hotel, Cocker Brook, Lancashire during a
refreshment halt on a journey from
Oldham to Blackpool.
These
tickets and clipper were used on Yelloways busy Rochdale-Manchester
express service which was inaugurated on Saturday 26th November 1927 from
Weir Street Coach Station Rochdale and operated until June 1944.
These tickets were introduced at the end of World War 2
and in time for the anticipated "travel boom" that resulted as
families, many re-united for the first time in several years, sought to
pick up the threads of their lives once again.
The above ticket is an 'A' series introduced in 1950
for the Oldham/Blackpool service.
'Period Tickets' issued for Rochdale - Blackpool service during the 1950s.
These tickets were introduced for the inauguration of
the Blackpool/Clacton-on-Sea service in the Summer of 1957 which was
jointly operated by
Yelloway Motor Services Ltd. and Premier Travel Ltd, of Cambridge.
These tickets were introduced in 1950 for the South
West services and these particular ones were kindly donated to the museum
by Kath & Ray Mathewson of Rochdale in September 2002. Kath & Ray
had saved them from their Honeymoon in Torquay in 1957 where they
travelled to in style by Yelloway.
These "day return" tickets for the Oldham/Blackpool
service were introduced during the early 1970s at the start of
decimalization.
The tickets above were used on the popular Fylde Coast Lancashire Service.
The
following selection of tickets were introduced after the take over of
Yelloways by
Carlton PSV of Rotherham, Yorkshire in July 1985.
Yelloway/Trathen, the last tickets prior to Yelloways
closure in 1988.