In Pennine Motor Services, Skipton: 1925 to 2014 the author, Stuart Emmett, chronicles the rise and fall of this much-loved operator with a timeline, tables about route development, and a good selection of photographs featuring the brightly-coloured buses at work.
Pennine Motor Services was founded as a family business in 1925, with the name making reference to the local Pennine area. The firm was popular with passengers; acquisitions and growth followed and, after a while, so did cooperation with their rival, Ribble.
After the usual wartime issues, Pennine successfully navigated the post-war period and 1980s bus deregulation. However, the later reduction of subsidies and rebates, combined with competition, had a cumulative ‘death by a thousand cuts’ effect, culminating in Pennine running their last bus on 16th May 2014.
45 black & white and 115 colour photographs. 96 pages.