This film is from the Gordon Riley collection and captures the last trolleybus services to run in Bradford in March 1972. Title-Nodrog Presents Title-Trackless Title-Last Trolleybus, Sunday 25th March 1972. Title-Bradford City Transport A man stands in front of a trolleybus and talks into a microphone while looking at the camera. A huge crowd of people line a street which is full of traffic Title-50 years of trolleybuses. There are some still photographs of various trolleybuses and then a...

This film is from the Gordon Riley collection and captures the last trolleybus services to run in Bradford in March 1972. Title-Nodrog Presents Title-Trackless Title-Last Trolleybus, Sunday 25th March 1972. Title-Bradford City Transport A man stands in front of a trolleybus and talks into a microphone while looking at the camera. A huge crowd of people line a street which is full of traffic Title-50 years of trolleybuses. There are some still photographs of various trolleybuses and then a sequence of shots of a trolleybus making its way along a track in through a busy town; it passes trolley buses going in the opposite direction. There are long shots taken from the end of a road filming the trolley bus as it drives towards the camera. The camera is at the steps of the vehicle and films the driver's area, the stairs, the upstairs, and the leather seats. There are point of view shots from the driver's seat as he drives along the road. There are also shots of the driver's feet on the pedals and another trolley driver using a long key to turn a switch on the pole and change the tracks. There are lingering shots of the wires moving along the tracks as the trolley buses drive along. One of the trolleybuses has `Huddersfield Trolleybuses 1933-1968' written on it. There are shots of other trolleybuses including the number 42 `Huddersfield trolleybus preservation society'. There are more lingering shots of trolley buses driving through town and then shots of a film crew getting off the trolleybus with their equipment and filming the trolley buses from the outside. The final shots are of trolley bus drivers using long poles to put wires back onto the tracks as they came off the tracks and having to drive the trolley bus into the side to start it again. There are shots of lots of newspaper clippings talking about the end of the trolley buses. There is a large crowd of people gathered outside `Clapham Smith & Sons' where the film crew are up on a cherry picker filming the scene below. A trolleybus with the destination set to `Special' pulls up outside the building and lots of people get on. There is a sign for the Telegraph and Argus which has the heading `The Last Trolley Weekender'. A trolley bus pulls up and it has 'Bradford's Last Trolley Bus 1972' painted all over the side. The final shot is of workmen cutting the wires and connections and rolling up the wires into bundles. The voiceover says that none of the road equipment will go to waste and that the wires will be re-used in an air base in another part of the country. Title-The End.