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A Hundred Years of trams and buses on Tees-Side

The 500 Group have available a great deal of data relating to the history of bus and tram travel around Teesside

We have produced a CD-Rom., it is entitled:

'A hundred years of trams and buses on Tees-side'

It contains data of all the vehicles that have been operated by the various Corporation Transport undertakings, as well as their predecessors who provided tram services from 1884

It also contains fleet data of Cleveland Transit Ltd. and Stagecoach Transit vehicles that have been used since the Municipal undertakings have been privatised.

The data-base is searchable, to enable the user to find, and list vehicles by:
+ Registration number
+ Fleet number
+ Fleet operator
+ Chassis manufacturer
+ Body manufacturer
+ Body configuration
+ Date introduced

There are one thousand nine hundred photographs on the CD-Rom, representing 86% of the vehicles listed and these can be opened from the data-base by clicking on the link on the on-screen list

The minimum requirement for the CD-Rom to run is a computer with:

+ Microsoft Windows 98
+ Microsoft Access (in Office 98 or 2000)
+ A suitable photo display program
+ 10 mb. spare memory

For those without a computer the images of buses and trams contained in the Cd-Rom can be viewed with a DVD player and TV set.
The DVD player must be capable of playing 'jpeg' files
(The data contained in the disc can not be viewed on a DVD player)

The CD-Rom is available, by post from:

The 500 Group, 5 Bankside, Yarm. TS15 9RH

More details can by had by telephoning 01642 782796
Or by E-mail: disc-500group@ntlworld.com

We have a special purchase offer

Special deals are available

The Cd-Rom is priced at Ł15.00 inc post and packing
It is available to 500 Group members for Ł10, 00.

There is also a special deal for non members, it is:

If you join The 500 Group, purchasers can have the disc for Ł10.00.and a discounted 2008 membership fee of Ł10.00 for adult and Ł5.00 for under 16s and over 60s. You must join at the same time as you purchase

500 Group membership entitles you to six NEWS-LETTERS each year, packed with information about Teesside Transport and the Groups activities together with ten meetings each year and the opportunity to join us at vintage vehicle events throughout the North of England

Stockton Corporation Book is now published

3rd December 2007
The 500 Group has published a new book on
Stockton Corporation Transport
The publication, is a well written and informative book and is a social History of Municipal bus operations in Stockton on Tees from 1921 to 1968.
The undertaking was eventually to become part of Teesside Municipal Transport, Cleveland Transit and ultimately Stagecoach Transit
The book has been carefully researched by well known local bus historian Peter Cardno and 500 Group Chairman, David Hunter.

This lavishly illustrated book has many previously unpublished pictures of Stockton and its buses and carries a detailed history, fleet lists, route history and a chapter on tickets as well as one on the memories of the former undertakings engineer, Roy Cotterill

It has 120 pages, some in colour and will be available by post from:
the 500 Group at 5 Bankside, Yarm. TS15 9RH or by E.mail to
details-500group@ntlworld.com
price Ł15.00 inc post and secure packing

Any profits from the publication of this book will go towards our Teesside vintage bus restoration program together with our educational activities for the benefit of the people of the area.

24th December 2007
We have now sold enough copies of the book to break even, if you haven't got yours yet they are available from good local book shops including W.H. Smith, Yarm Book Shop, Guisborough Book Shop. The Book Inn Billingham and Serin Computers Eaglescliffe. The book is also stocked at the Transporter Visitiors Centre and Preston Hall Museum
It is of course still available from the 500 Group

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