An open-topped double decker bus could be plying the streets of Keighley next summer, following a restoration project at Keighley Bus Museum.

And it is hoped the bus will be ready to help the museum celebrate the 100th anniversary of the launch of electric trams in the town in 1904.

It will be bedecked in the old colours of the former Keighley Corporation Tramways Company, last seen on the streets 72 years ago.

The burgundy and cream livery, with the town crest, was used on town buses before the company was bought out by the West Yorkshire Road Car Company in 1932.

The project is under way at the museum's Old Dalton Lane base and museum official Graham Mitchell hopes to have it ready by next June.

He said: "It would be good if we could get it ready for Keighley Gala in June and have it in the procession."

The bus is a 1962 Leyland Atlantean converted to open top in 1975 to operate on tourist services in Plymouth.

It then moved north to Yorkshire being used in York and on seafront services in Scarborough before ending its regular service days on the York City Tour.

It was hoped it would be available for private hire from June 2004 and in time to help the museum celebrate the tramways centenary, said Mr Mitchell.