History

Research for these histories draws on original work compiled by Tim Wright, based on earlier research by W. D Clarke, Harry Dibdin and Michael Yelton, whose detailed studies of Chester Corporation Transport have helped preserve the history of the city’s municipal bus services.

Please contact us if you feel you have information that could add go these histories. They are intended to be living documents and will be developed over time.

As time permits, each history will feature its own photo gallery.

1930s (Inter-War Growth)

Wartime Operations (1939 – 1945)

Post-War Recovery (1946 – 1952)

The ‘Guy Arab’ Years

One-man-operations
Under construction

Towards Deregulation (1980 – 1986)
Under construction

The Deregulation Years
Under construction

Towards the Future!
Under construction