Volvo Buses

In the 1960s, most UK residents would only know Volvo as a builder of sensible and safe private cars. Some who had ventured beyond these shores might have encountered Swedish-built Volvo trucks and buses, but the UK bus market was proving a more difficult nut to crack. For years, virtually every new bus delivered to a UK operator had been built in the UK; this was the way it had been done since the 1940s, when there were still plenty of suppliers to satisfy requirements. But, as the 1970s beg…