Derby Trolley Bus footage from the late 1960s

Unfortunately, ours last ran in 1958 !

It's also unbelievable how many Ford Anglia 123Es there were in Derby at the time! Noticeable of course, by the sloping back window.

Fantastic footage of a city I have great connections to (living here over in Nottingham). I wasn't particularly interested in the buses, rather the footage of very familiar places as it was in time gone by. Why though, did they have to have some southerner narrating it.

Hi, yes its the locations that interest me most.

great video.i'm an ex-pat living in vancouver canada and drive trolleys,a little different from these but the principal is the same.

Definitly recognised the Mackworth Estate. Was up there a few weeks ago sampling the new Optare Solos (for the benefit of a friend, give me something decent any day) running on what must be the same route as the Trolleybuses.

at 4.36 this looks like London Road in Alvaston.
I can remember taking the 41 to "Town" as a young boy and enjoying the quaint trolley bus ride. It was a sad day when the trolley busses were scrapped. But can you guess my surprise when I came across trolley busses in Ankara Turkey in the early 1980's, they were single-decker versions and very delapidated at the time, they too have now been scrapped.

Why on earth were these scrapped?! Less noise, pollution and yet somehow quite quirky! Typically British, one might say...

Bring 'em back!

bring them back - less noise and pollution in cities.

Thanks for this footage! Though not from Derby myself I found it similar to the trolley buses in Bournemouth!