Pioneer honoured
31st August 1979, Page 20
31st August 1979
Page 20
Page 20, 31st August 1979
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LEEDS CITY has honoured pioneer bus operator la: naming a new road in an are; of the city after him.
The road has been namel Ledgard Way after San Ledgard, who founded a bu company in the Arm ley area o the city early this century.
The road runs betweei Canal Road and Armley Row through the site of th Ledgard bus company whicl.
• by the time of Sam Ledgard' death in 1952, had grown to fleet of over 100 buses witl depots in Leeds, Bradford Otley and Ilkley.
The Ledgard Bus Compan: was taken over by the Wes Yorkshire Road Car Compan: in 1967.