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Search for Dad's old buses
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BETWEEN the two Great World Wars, my father, Leonard Weaver, pioneered the commercial use of passenger vehicles, later to be called "omnibuses" in the Barnsley, Silkstone, Hemsworth areas and built up a viable business ever extending and pioneering new routes for regular passenger services. He was involved with the pressure groups which ultimately forced Parliamentary legislation to register bus routes timetables and legalise "bus companies" which ultimately saved many broken teeth and bloody noses(?) and turned mayhem into profits.
I am now searching for information, documentation anc photographs of his endeavour: and would gratefully pay for any information our readers may have. I am particularly interestec in any photographs of Dad's "old" buses which should bea the names of "L. Weaver and Sons" or "Weaver Brothers". His exploits were recently included in a television programme about the birth of passenger services in the Wes Riding of Yorkshire but, unfortunately, none of the original vehicles was involved ii the programme.
I recall some years ago one o "our" buses parked in the fror garden of a house in the villag of Barugh —rhaps it is still languishing in some scrap dealer's yard? May be it is available for sale.
R. WEAVER Group Transport and Plant Engineer Welsh Water Authority, Dee and Clwyd Division