Trolleybuses in Huddersfield

The first conversion was the Almondbury tramway. It was converted in sections with a temporary motor bus link as the road was resealed and electrified. Six different 6-wheel buses were bought to trial on the route with Karrier, Ransomes and Sunbeam chassis and bodies by several builders. Most later buses were Karrier, though the local factory had closed. The Almondbury route closed on 14 July 1965. The dates of the rest were: In 1958 Edgar Dyson became general manager. The council then agreed to a closure programme, ending with 5 crowded Outlane buses on 13 July 1968. Rates paid to the county council were among reasons for early closure of the West Vale and Marsden routes. ==Trolleybus fleet==

Six experimental trolleybuses were bought in 1933, three of the chassis being ordered from the local firm of Karrier, with the others being one each by AEC, Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies and Sunbeam. The bodywork was by Brush, English Electric or Park Royal. Following trials on the route to Almondbury, quantity orders totalling 134 were placed for the Karrier E6 chassis, with bodywork mostly from Park Royal, but also Brush or Weymann, and these were delivered between 1934 and 1940. Several of these were given new Roe bodies during 1950–54. Sixty-six trolleybuses bought between 1947 and 1951 had the Sunbeam MS2 chassis (although badged as Karrier) with either Park Royal or Roe bodywork, and they were followed by 24 BUT 9641T with East Lancs bodies between 1953 and 1957. The final trolleybus order – and the last order by a UK operator for three-axle trolleybuses – was for ten Sunbeam S7 with East Lancs bodywork, built in 1959. ==See also==