From trams and trolleybuses, all of the way up to the new low emission buses launched just last year, buses certainly have undergone a transformation over the decades.
Take a stroll down memory lane:
13. 1958
This Metro-Cammell 56-seat body, is one of fifteen similar buses delivered in 1958 Photo: The News
14. 1919
Portsmouth’s first 10 motor buses, shown here arriving outside the town hall in July 1919, were J-type Thornycrofts engineered at Basingstoke and with bodies made by Wadham Bros of Waterlooville. They were in service for about a decade, but the solid tyres, stiff suspension and rough roads so damaged their bodywork that by about 1926 they were refitted with second hand bodies from older London buses. Photo: -
15. 1970s/1980s approx
How does the saying go, you wait for one bus and then several arrive? These double-decker buses were pictured arriving at South Parade Pier. Photo: -
16. 1941
People are pictured here queuing for buses outside the New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth, in January 1941 Photo: -