council housing estates. Eventually the corporation had a fleet of 67 diesel buses.
Double deckers were favoured in the late 1960s and 70s, but declining passenger numbers led to more single deckers, and then minibuses, being purchased from the 1980s onwards.
Tthe website for Ipswich Transport Museum, goes into more detail of the history of trams, trolleys and buses in Suffolk. For memories of 'those jolly trolley days' see also www.evening-star.co.uk/Content/columns/kindred/htm/020813trolley.asp
The Eastern Counties Roadcar Company, which provided the Ipswich buses, set up a depot in Bury St Edmunds in 1922. In the same decade a number of small companies set up in rural areas, taking over the role of the old village carrier by running trips to town on market day as the mainstay of their business. These included Beestons, Partridge and Mulleys, companies which are still in business in the 2 st century.
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