Seventeen vehicles at Transperience clocked up a staggering 9.9 million miles when they were in service.

The motor buses, trams and trolley-buses have transported 9.9 million people around the region and have a combined age of 552 years.

And the oldest vehicle is a 1927 Leyland Lion motor bus - which still runs.

The vehicles were originally housed at the West Yorkshire Transport Museum, in Ludlam Street, which boasted the biggest and best collection of transport in Europe. But the historical buses rarely made an outing.

The Ludlam Street collection contained buses from Budapest to Blackpool - but were lying idle due to the long-running legal and political battle about land at Low Moor.

Finally, when Transperience opened in July 1 1995, the 17 buses the T&A is campaigning to save were taken from the West Yorkshire Transport Museum and put on show in the discovery park.

One of the most important trolley buses on show is Bradford's last - which retired in 1972.

Before 1974 public transport was the responsibility of the local authority and buses were seen on the streets from Halifax, Huddersfield and Leeds.

There were also private companies running from Lancashire and the Otley-based Samuel Ledgers.

A famous story, which may have been exaggerated over the years, is when a Samuel Ledgers bus broke down at Fox's Corner, Shipley.

The story is that the conductor got off, went for his hair cut and got fish and chips for him and the driver.

The nerve centre of the network was at the large depot in Thornbury where more than 300 people were employed.

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