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Dewsbury Bus Museum

Coordinates: 53°40′45″N 1°39′55″W / 53.67907°N 1.66520°W / 53.67907; -1.66520
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Dewsbury Bus Museum
A double deck bus in front of a large iron clad garage
Guy Wulfrunian UCX275 stands outside the Dewsbury Bus Museum
Dewsbury Bus Museum is located in West Yorkshire
Dewsbury Bus Museum
Location within West Yorkshire
Established1989 (1989)
LocationRavensthorpe, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England
Coordinates53°40′45″N 1°39′55″W / 53.67907°N 1.66520°W / 53.67907; -1.66520
TypeTransport museum
OwnerWest Riding Omnibus Museum Trust
Websitewww.dewsburybusmuseum.org

The Dewsbury Bus Museum is a museum in Ravensthorpe, West Yorkshire, England. Opened to the public in September 1989, it is owned and operated by the West Riding Omnibus Museum Trust, a registered charity, and is run entirely by volunteer effort.[1]

It is home to the only two surviving Guy Wulfrunian double deck buses and several other West Riding Automobile Company vehicles as well as others from Yorkshire Woollen District Transport Co, Yorkshire Traction Company, West Yorkshire PTE, Huddersfield and Halifax Corporations and local independent J. Wood of Mirfield.

The collection

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The collection includes:[2]

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Leyland Titan PD2 BHL682 Leyland Tiger EHL336 Leyland Tiger PS2 EHL344 AEC Reliance Roe Dalesman JUL983

Guy Arab KHL855 in Wakefield Guy Wulfrunian UCX275 Guy Wulfrunian WHL970 Leyland Panther LHL164F

Bristol RE THL261H Leyland National 2 XUA73X Leyland Olympian A577NWX Leyland Royal Tiger Doyen E50TYG

Events

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A scene from the first anniversary Open Day at the Dewsbury Bus Museum in 1990

The museum holds a number of Open Days and other events throughout the year, and these are well attended, with many visiting vehicles.[3][4]

Site history

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Ravensthorpe depot c. 1987

Prior to the redevelopment of the site in the late 1980s, there had been a small depot on the site belonging to the Yorkshire Woollen District Transport Company of Dewsbury since the 1930s. In later years, it had been used to store de-licensed coaches during the winter but by the early 1980s, it had fallen into disrepair and out of use until it was offered for sale to the West Riding Omnibus Preservation Society (WROPS) for the storage of their collection of preserved buses and coaches.

WROPS formed the West Riding Omnibus Museum Trust to purchase the building and used it until its condition deteriorated further when it was demolished and the current structure erected.

References

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  1. ^ Charity Commission details
  2. ^ "Our Collection". Dewsbury Bus Museum. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  3. ^ Himelfield, Dave (13 November 2014). "On the Buses". Huddersfield Daily Examiner. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
  4. ^ "Dewsbury Bus Museum". British Motor Museums. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
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